Ouch – now THAT must have hurt. Gotta admire the dedication though – if that guy has an office job then even collars the size of Harry Hill’s wouldn’t cover that up. We salute you sir!

We spotted this one in Wired that ran a feature called Behind The Scenes of MotoGP. There ares ome other good photos there from Laguna Seca so check it out HERE

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Valentino Rossi returns for the 5th installment of MotoGP and Bike Tattoos.
First up is Ross Douglas who has had the patience to sit through what looks like hours of work to get a cartoon Vale on his leg:


Here it is being created:

Wow – I’m guessing that these two are a couple – as opposed to being two random strangers discovering their love of Rossi tattoos during a game of strip poker.

Next up – an recent Rossi tattoo from the Fiat Yamaha years:

Top marks for originality and not going for a rider or a motorcycle brand.

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There you have it – the one known Casey Stoner tattoo in existance.

Another worthy addition to MotoGP and Bike Tattoos.

For the Rossi fans that enduring getting scratched up by a needle to show their support and devotion to their hero - we salute you.

MotoGP and Bike Tattoos #2: Valentino Rossi Tattoos:

Part 1: Valentino Rossi and Rossi Racing Tattoos:

Tattoo fan or not, you can’t not admire the skillful artwork that’s gone into this Valentino Rossi Tattoo by Alex De Pase.

However, if it’s about artwork AND surface area covered then this guy below wins with his back tribute to Valentino Rossi – you can only wonder what’s on his front. (source of image: flickr.com/photos/bastianelli/290852716/)

A more up-to-date tattoo below, showing Rossi at Mugello in 2008 when he wore a photo of his face on the top of his helmet – little did Rossi know that sometime in the future, the  image of the image of his face would be on an image tattooed on some blokes back in a sort of fan-boy infinate regression loop. Still, must have taken ages and was probably pretty painful – but that’s no excuse, man up and get it coloured in.

Talking of colouring in – wow, great piece below showing Rossi in his 2006 Yamaha colours. Looks like a forearm?

Another great leg piece depicting Rossi in his 2004 Yamaha livery.

This one below gets top marks for originality with a stylized cartoon of Rossi

Part 2: Valentino Rossi logo and symbol tattoos:

The marketing phenomenon that is Valentino Rossi gives fans a multitude of logos to choose from when wondering what to get etched into their flesh – and it’s unsurprising that popular choices include ‘The Doctor’ and the ‘Sun and Moon logos that Rossi is associated with.

This is just incredible, it’s hard to work out what to admire most, the quality of the tattoo, or the fact that he’s had it done around his love handles (still, if he’s over 35 those love handles won’t be going anywhere so it may well have been a wise choice). We can only wonder at the awkward silence that would happen if this chap had to have his prostate gland checked, as a real doctor stares down at that tattoo while he shoves his finger up his patients arse. Apparantly, when Rossi signed his back, the guy rushed off to get the signature tattooed on permantly – gotta take your hat off to the true fans. (source of image: flickr.com/photos/46043665@N00/196858083)

The Sun and Moon

There are a ton of these, so we’ve put them together in a gallery of raw pink flesh and ink.

This is the best sun motif that we’ve seen, and it must have taken hours…..

…and this is probably the worst sun motif that we’ve seen

There are a few turtles out there  though:

Looks like someone needed to shave a monkey’s forearm to get that on there – nice turtle though.

If you know of any more out there then post a link to them in the comments.

We are sinking in to a whole new niche here, ‘MotoGP Tattoos’. This will run for as long as we can still find examples on the internet or until we get bored of looking. First up are the Ducati fans that seem willing to go to very painful lengths to show their love for The Duke.

Ducati Tattoos:

Starting with the hardcore first. This fella is either:

A) so independently wealthy that he doesn’t need a job and fears no loss of potential future earnings by having a head full of ink,

B) so fucking hard that he doesn’t care and lives off nails and whatever he kills,

C) works for Ducati

We’d guess B, either way, we salute you for having the patience and a superhuman high pain threshold to get this done on the top of your head:

Next up is a straight up regular Ducati bike tattoo. No hiding that one.

Nice enough, hard to tell exactly where this one is positioned on the body, but those hairs at the bottom look suspicious.

No problems working out where this one is. Small of a hairy back or an ‘overgrown front’? You decide.

A classy tattoo entry of a Gran Sport Ducati

This is more like it.

Back to the men now, with this next entry of Ducati tattoos all belonging to one man! Nothing says rebellion, excitement, and a ‘maverick who plays by his own rules’ than tattoos of……..ENGINE PARTS.

 to be fair – its not all engine parts that he has:

 Spark Plugs – nice!

What have we learnt? Not much, except that those hardcore Ducati fanatics are clearly made of tough stuff and probably won’t ever (be able) to turn to any other bike manufacturer……not before getting a fortune of laser surgery first.