Brad Pitt 'may try Rossi's bike'

| Fri, 10/17/2008 - 03:57

Brad Pitt may get the chance to try the MotoGP bike of his idol Valentino Rossi, the Italian ace said Thursday.

''We're looking at ways of letting Brad ride my Yamaha,'' Rossi said during practice for Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix.

''It should be possible,'' he said.

Pitt, a motorcycling fiend since his teens, recently said he would choose to be Rossi if given the chance to be reborn.

In a cover story in the latest edition of Riders Italian Magazine, the American heartthrob said ''we celebrities shouldn't worship idols but I have one who stands above all the rest: Valentino Rossi''.

''I'd give anything to be like him. That guy is a real wizard. He can lean his bike flat out on the asphalt without falling. It's pure ballet, it's true art,'' Pitt said.

''Rossi has this calm and innate sense of balance that's beyond mortal man. Just poetry to watch''.

Pitt has over a dozen bikes in his garage, including a Harley-Davidson chopper which his companion Angelina Jolie gave him for his 44th birthday.

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