BSB News

Top British motorcycle racer Phil Giles is putting himself up for sale on e-bay in a unique move to fund his 2005 British Superbike campaign and raise money for development charity Riders for Health.

Rizla Suzuki recently confirmed to Crash.net that its British Superbike racing machines will continue to be sky blue for 2005, despite strong rumours suggesting otherwise.

The Sendo Superbikes Team has officially launched its 2005 BSB campaign, which will see the team field Steve Plater and Jon Kirkham on Kawasaki ZX-10s run by Dienza Performance Racing.

The full 2005 British Supersport championship entry list has now been announced. It shows that MSS Kawasaki have two grid slots, but have only announced one rider so far.

National Superstock Cup champion Peter Hickman recently attended the ACU awards ceremony where he was presented with the ACU Academy Road Racer of the Year trophy after heading a shortlist if young talent which included MRO GP125 champion Chris Jones and Aprilia Superteen champion Kev Coglan.

Paul Bird Motorsport has officially announced that, as reported earlier on Crash.net , Ulsterman Jeremy McWilliams will ride for the Stobart Honda team in the 2005 British Superbike Championship.

It has been announced that Steve Plater and John Kirkham will join the Sendo team aboard Kawasaki ZX-10s in the forthcoming British Superbike Championship.

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Shell Advance recently announced its intention to sponsor British team Rizla Suzuki, heralding the brands first venture to sponsor a Superbike team in the British chamionship.

Britain's top teenage motorcycle racers Kev Coghlan and Danny Webb will ride for UK1 Racing in this year's 125cc British Championship as the team chases a second successive title.

Suzuki is staging a series of four specialist Yoshimura GSX-R Seminars this month, the first of which kicked off at Crescent Racing in the UK Monday (today).

With the announcement of the provisional entry list for the 2005 British Superbike season, a number of suprises crop up.

Simon Green, Rizla Suzuki's Team Coordinator, recently held a technical lecture for the students of Kingston University's Motorcycle Engineering Design course, covering all behind-the-scene aspects of top level Superbike racing.

Dorna UK and MCRCB Events Ltd have chosen Metzeler Racetec as the official tyre and title sponsor for the 2005 National Superstock Championship and National Superstock Cup.

Stuart Easton has signed to ride a Ducati UK supported 749R in the 2005 British Supersport Championship. The Scot has agreed a deal with his team boss of last year, John Hackett, and new team partner Phil Jessopp, of Ducati Bristol, to ride for the newly formed Supersport team.

Team Nvidia have confirmed to Crash.net that they will enter the 2005 British Superbike championship, with a one rider team.

MonsterMob Ducati's John McGuinness will start tomorrow's 38th Hotel Fortuna Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix from Pole Position having scorched around the twisty Circuito da Guia nearly one and a half seconds faster than team mate Stuart Easton who will start alongside the Lancastrian.

Hawk Kawasaki has exclusively announced to Crash.net that it will operate as a satellite factory team during the 2005 British Superbike season.

Fourteen-year-old Chris Jones from Worcestershire was selected yesterday from among 12 aspiring young riders to join the Red Bull Rookies Honda British 125GP team in 2005.

Paul Denning, who has handed over day-to-day control of his championship winning Crescent Suzuki team to take up the position of team manager at the factory Suzuki MotoGP team, believes his appointment is a massive accolade for the British Superbike series - and warned that, despite his loss, the

Vivaldi Racing was delivered a blow on the opening day of the NEC bike show in the UK when John McGuinness announced that he would not ride for the team. Speculation suggested that it was because he would not be allowed to ride at the TT. However team manager Richard Wilson said:

Former Koji Renegade Ducati World Superbike rider, Leon Haslam, has exclusively confirmed to Crash.net that he will be riding in the British Superbike Championship next season.

MonsterMob Ducati team owner Paul Bird has announced that his highly successful four-year partnership with Ducati Corse will come to an end with the Cumbrian-based team's participation in the Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix race on November 20th.

Following Thursday's announcement by Crash.net Honda Racing has confirmed its team line-up for the 2005 British Superbike Championship which includes an increased entry for the world's leading domestic series.