Oberdan Bezzi is at it again and quite frankly, I want him to keep going with these sick renderings of his. Known for some mighty fine design renderings of bikes we’d love to see hit the road at one point or another, Bezzi’s latest masterpiece involves transforming the new Yamaha YZF-R1 and flipping its appearance over its head with special liveries inspired by two of the Yamaha’s most famous racers, Kenny Roberts and Giacomo Agostini.
These works didn’t change the YZF-R1’s aesthetics so don’t expect any engineering manipulation that Bezzi has come to be known for. Instead, these renderings involve the pretty simple practice of color-swapping, which is what happens when you take a standard YZF-R1, strip it down of its colors, and repaint it with some other color combination. It’s a pretty straight-forward practice but Bezzi takes it to a whole new level by bringing back two of the most iconic racing colors Yamaha has had on its bikes in history.
The first rendering features a yellow-black-white livery with three so-called speed blocks, evoking images of the bike made famous by Kenny Roberts Sr. back in the 1970’s. Some of us may be too young to remember, but for a time, yellow was a staple of Yamaha’s racing heritage and the color looks absolutely fantastic on the YZF-R1.
It might be a little tough to top that one, but Bezzi somehow manages to at least make it look as cool as his second color scheme. This one includes splashes of silver, red, and yellow with trims of black mixed in. Not surprisingly, it’s the same color scheme that was used by none other than Giacomo Agostini on the 1975 YZR500 that captured the 500cc GP title in the same year.
Don’t expect Yamaha to bring back these colors because if it really wanted to, it would have done so a long time ago. Then again, maybe it’s just waiting for a special time to do it, even though Bezzi already beat it to the punch in his own way.
Continue reading to read more about Oberdan Bezzi’s renderings for the 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1.
Yamaha YZF-R1 Receives Classic Racing Liveries originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:00 EST.
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