MTECH – the company which supplies Alvaro’s leathers – has very kindly donated 50 extremely cool A3 sized posters for us to give away to our forum members over at BatiFans – The Alvaro Bautista Fan Forum.
To find out if you’re one of the lucky winners in PART ONE of our great giveaway click here – and if you’re not a member, then come and join in! We’re a delightful bunch, and we have lots more competitions and giveaways coming up for our members.
PS: Thank you MTECH – we love you!
For those of you who live your lives on the cutting edge of technology, you may be interested to know that BatiFans is now also on Twitter – where, rather than simply replicating what we do on the forum and our blogs, we can be found ‘behind the scenes’ as it were; generally thinking out loud, telling you what we’re up to as the CREW of the BatiFans.com Fan Forum (on and off topic), and knocking out the odd interesting link.
Twitter’s not the be-all and end-all… far from it, but we know that it’s a way that people keep up with activity in ways different to stuff like our forum, or on Facebook. And as such it makes sense for us to be there and help spread the word about Alvaro Bautista (and of course BatiFans.com) ever further.
To see our profile and tweets, and to add us to your ‘Follow’ list, simply click here to hop across to Twitter…
I’ve made a groovy iPhone ‘webapp’ to help keep suitably equipped Alvaro Bautista fans bang up to date with all the latest posts, news, thought and opinion on all things Bati and MotoGP on our BatiFans.com Fan Forum
Find out all about it here…
Oh, and get an iPhone 
A quick update on our excellent BatiFans.com Fan Forum (join if you haven’t already!)… we’ve just upgraded it from phpBB2 (the basic code structure that runs it) to the all-new phpBB3, which has many new features and is a definite improvement for users.
It’s given us the opportunity to refresh the look of the forum too, the front page now featuring groovy icons to guide you into each section.
We’ve had to set aside the RSS feed for now till we can adapt a new hack for it, but the Spanish translation feature is retained – we’ve also installed language packs for Spanish, Catalan, and Catalan (Valencia).
The new forum is in a *slightly* different place – so you’ll want to update your bookmarks to http://www.batifans.com/phpBB3/index.php but we have plenty of updated links and redirects in place so you should still be able to find us easily and quickly.
Why not get over there now in fact as we have some very special prizes up for grabs in this weekend’s round of the RACECARD competition for the Catalunya GP!
Go on….
Thanks to Pringle for managing to translate this post from Alvaro to his official (Spanish) forum, following up the Jerez weekend.
(*All the jejeje type stuff is Spanish for laughing by the way!)
Hello everybody!! How are you?? I’m fine but I could be better jejejje
It was a pity in Jerez, because the whole weekend went pretty well, ok I had some small problems with the bike on Friday but they were resolved very well on Saturday and I had fun riding again and had a lot of confidence for Sunday… The race went brilliant, I felt strong and I wanted to win no matter what, I had it clear and under control, and I wanted to celebrate a victory with all of you, but I didn’t expect what happened, of which you know all already and there’s no need to tell you again, no??? jejejejej
You know what especially impressed me most and what moved me??? As well as all of you who did not stop to support me during the weekend, which was noted!!! After the race on the grandstand on the straight, when the people started to call my name… wow!!! That was very cool, really I felt loved and supported and I would like to say thanks (not only to them, but also to everybody who supports me) for doing this, I did not hope for it and I got it anyway… and above all it cheered me up and it made me think it wasn’t all bad, that the next time I would be stronger and fight hard to reach my objective, as soon as possible, in Portugal (good memories) I intend to be like always a 100% and fighting!!! Those of you who will be there have a lot of fun and those who can’t be there, I’m sure you’ll be supporting from home…
Ok people, I dismiss myself now, really many thanks for your support and encouragements and that sooner or later luck will be with us no??? ajjajajajjaja
A hug and a kiss!!!
A great demonstration of somebody who’s got it all in perspective, and a perfect example of why we support him.
Let’s hope Estoril brings us (and Bati) better…
