Fabio Quartararo’s motorbike, with studded tyres, circulating on the web is a Yamaha R9. A unique piece built on the basis of the three-cylinder road car, designed solely as an image project. The customization is focused on style and craftsmanship: black livery with silver graphics, and components made of silver by TwoJeys, a Catalan jewelery brand. A social content that serves to get people talking about the R9 by taking it out of its natural context
Two images alone explain why this story is making the rounds so strongly on the web: Fabio Quartararo in a snowy landscape, a “total black” supersport, and two studded tires reminiscent of speedway tires on ice. The result is not a new model designed to participate in the winter edition of the Swank Rally, but a clearly transversal project. It’s called Yamaha R9-25 and it is a unique piece created together with the jewelry brand TwoJeys, under the direction of Yamaha Motor Europe. TwoJeys is a brand born in Barcelona in 2019, founded by Joan Margarit and Biel Juste, characters with experience gained in social media, who build the brand’s identity around a symbol (the two stars) and an imagery that draws from street culture, music, skate, motorsport.
from asphalt to snow
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TwoJeys declares it openly, the goal was to take a motorcycle born for asphalt and bring it to a completely different habitat, transforming the snow into a track, with a visual and functional solution at the same time. With tires equipped with long studs and an aesthetic designed for the stark contrast between black and the cold light of winter. The heart of the operation, in fact, is not a chronometric record: it is a narrative. A deliberately commercial product, comparable in terms of scene assonance to Marc Márquez’s outing on the snow in 2017. There the emphasis was entirely on the feat, while in this case the show is more “controlled” and above all closer to the codes of the fashion content. Although in reality there is also a precedent that goes even further back in time, which takes us back to 1982. When Ducati created a small series of Pantahs equipped with studded tires and special mudguards, to create a single-make winter championship on frozen tracks: the Ice Trophy
silver is not just a color
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The R9 isn’t just carefully painted. The official project page talks about a hand-painted black base with silver flames and, above all, about a series of components made of silver. The brake and clutch controls, details and partnership logos are therefore made of precious metal, up to elements such as the exhaust, rims and reinterpreted engine crankcase. In other words, the motorbike is treated as an atelier object, with the logic of the luxury accessory applied to a supersport. It is no coincidence that TwoJeys insists on the concept “Two legacies. One vision” and on the fact that it is a unique piece, to be seen and touched, from the 13th until December 26th in the shop on Carrer de la Canuda 24, in Barcelona.
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the basis does not change
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Under the customization the bike does not change, it remains the Yamaha R9, new generation supersport based on the 890 cc three-cylinder CP3with an advanced electronic package and refined aerodynamics. The frame is the Deltabox with a declared weight of 9.7 kg, while the mass of the complete bike is 195 kg. It is important because it clarifies one thing, the “winter variant” is not born on just any basis, but on a model that Yamaha is using to relaunch its idea of supersport in the era of advanced electronics and an image increasingly derived from racing.
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