Archive for November, 2009

Video: The Making of Valentino Rossi’s Donkey Helmet

Rossi’s ‘Donkey’ helmet at Misano, following his crash at Indianapolis, is now known as one of his more famous helmet designs – but this video shows exactly how it was made. Apparantly Aldo Drudi received a text message from Rossi following the Indianapolis MotoGP asking him to come up with a new helmet design based [...]

AGV Announce Rossi Donkey Helmet

Press Release:
AGV has officially announced that they are to make a limited number of the Donkey helmet that Rossi wore during the Misano GP. Valentino called himself The Donkey after crashing out during the Indianapolis MotoGP and so inspired him to create this new custom lid.
The helmet has a huge donkey face on top and [...]

AGV Valentino Rossi Celebr-8 Helmet in Yellow now on sale

AGV have released the Valentino Rossi Celebr-8 helmet in Yellow (in strictly limited numbers). Rossi wore the yellow version of the ‘Celebr-8′ helemt during testing sessions at the start of the 2008/2009 season.
This Rossi helmet replica will be in the AGV K3 shell range (making it more affordable) and will be a direct replica of [...]