Thou shalt love your bike

Because later you'll have to ride it hard. :P

Valentino Rossi

Alvaro Bautista

Stefan Bradl

Aspar - "Team Totty"?

Team Aspar has always been very good at not only delivering on the genuine *talent* side of things, but also of helping raise the Totty Count on the grid in 125 and 250 by a considerable margin.
Here's a nice snap for you of what appears to be the riders and other crew from the Jorge Martinez run squad getting themselves in order for a big family photo somewhere round the start of 2006.
Up front we have Sergio Gadea, and behind him young Mateo Tunez, and further back off to the right you can - if you squint - see Mattia Pasini with his '06 big long hair / mane.
Oh and right at the back, the hottest blur in the world... ;-)

A sunday in spring - Time to look cool

As soon as the sun is out, the sunglasses are on. Especially on motorcycle racers who each have their personal sunglass sponsor. You just gotta wear it - looking cool is a bonus. :)

Valentino Rossi

Tom Lüthi

Sergio Gadea

Mattia Pasini

Marco Melandri

Andrea Dovizioso

Imre Toth: Tothally Hot

For no better reason than we've not had a piccie of him up here for a little while, here's Hungarian Hottie Imre Toth again...

Eyes are windows to the soul

If that is true, then there are some extremely beautiful souls riding motorcycles...

Andrea Dovizioso

Troy Bayliss

Alex Baldolini

Mike Di Meglio

Hector Faubel

Alvaro Bautista

Hottie of the Past: Norick Abe

This is someone even Valentino Rossi greatly admired - Norick "Norifumi" Abe. Scoring a ride with Team Roberts after a sensational wildcard debut he later went on to become the first ever Japanese rider to win the home GP in Suzuka. The hugely popular rider with the spikey hair and the serious look on almost every picture tragically died in a motorcycle crash in October 2007. But his legacy lives on - not least every time Valentino is named "Rossifumi".

Hooray for showers on the other side of the paddock

They make riders run around half-naked in front of the cameras. :P