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Redline KTM for Edmeades in BSB Evo

25 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Redline KTM for Edmeades in BSB Evo

The KTM RC8R that James Edmeades will race in BSB Evo this year will be relying on the same bolt-on bits from the Power Parts catalogue that any KTM owner can buy -according to Redline KTM dealership...

BMW teams up with Jentin to run Brogan and Cooper

25 February 2010 by MCN Sports Desk

BMW teams up with Jentin to run Brogan and Cooper

BMW Motorrad has teamed up with Jentin Racing for an assault on the National Superstock and British Superbike EVO class Championships with the S1000RR superbike. Jentin Racing-BMW Motorrad will run...

Pekkanen to race Suzuki in BSB Evo

23 February 2010 by Laura Stevens

Finn Pauli Pekkanen is the latest rider to announce his plans to race in the BSB Evo class. He’s aiming to run his own Suzuki in the championship that now boasts nine starters with other teams on the verge on announcing their plans. Pekkanen finished runner-up in last year’s one-make KTM RC8 Super Cup series and has a range of experience having competed in the European Superstock Championship in...

Hunts Motorcycles back Michael Dunlop

19 February 2010 by MCN Sports desk

Hunts Motorcycles back Michael Dunlop

Michael Dunlop will race a Honda Fireblade in this year’s superstock races supplied by Manchester Honda dealer Hunts Motorcycles. As well as the international road races, the Ballymoney rider is also...

Brookes gets WSB call-up

19 February 2010 by Laura Stevens

Brookes gets WSB call-up

HM Plant Honda’s Josh Brookes will be back on track next weekend at the opening round of the World Superbike Championship at Phillip Island, after receiving a call to deputise for the injured Broc...

Racing knowledge: What Ellison learned from last season in BSB

18 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Racing knowledge: What Ellison learned from last season in BSB

James Ellison has raised his game in the past year and reckons that that even though he finished runner-up in the series, we’ve far from seen the best of him. Here’s what he learned from last season...

What's the deal with: Simon Andrews

18 February 2010 by MCN Sports desk

What's the deal with: Simon Andrews

MCN catches up with MSS Kawasaki rider Simon Andrews to find out what he’s been up to in the off season…  What have you been up to this winter? Living in the Alps. Sounds exotic but I’ve been half...

Howarth lines up with Magic Bullet in BSB Evo

17 February 2010 by MCN Sports desk

Howarth lines up with Magic Bullet in BSB Evo

Michael Howarth will be spearheading the Magic Bullet Two Wheel Racing team’s effort in the new BSB Evo class riding a GSX-R1000 Suzuki.  Howarth, who is 29 and hails from Manchester, took part in...

Suzuki battered by bad weather at Portimao

15 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Suzuki battered by bad weather at Portimao

The Worx Crescent Suzuki team today successfully completed a three-day shakedown test at the Portimao Circuit in southern Portugal, in preparation for the 2010 British Superbikes Championship. The...

Team Symitry IT North prepare for 2010

13 February 2010 by Full Throttle Imagaing

Team Symitry IT North prepare for 2010

Team Symitry IT North with rider Shaun Horsman are busy preparing for a renewed assault on the 2010 British 125GP championship which is set to commence at Brands Hatch over the Easter...

Valentine says BSB Evo debate is to come

12 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Valentine says BSB Evo debate is to come

BSB Evo kicks off this year. It’s a series within the MCE British Superbike Championship and is for superbikes with more standard ‘superstock’ tune engines and control ECUs. The series organisers are...

Valentine praises new BSB points system

12 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Valentine praises new BSB points system

Worx Suzuki team boss Jack Valentine has spoken out in favour of the new BSB point scoring system. This year’s series is split into a regular season of nine races and a three –round showdown between...

Karl Harris: 10 years on from Euro glory

12 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Karl Harris: 10 years on from Euro glory

It is 10 years since Karl Harris won the European Superstock title. It’s 15 years since the team that helped him win that title, GR Racing, was formed. And now Harris is back with GR Racing duo Brent...

Moto Rapido Ducati confirm line-up

10 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Moto Rapido Ducati confirm line-up

Moto Rapido Ducati have completed their rider line-up for the 2010 with the signing of Brighton youngster Leon Hunt who will race in the Metzeler National Superstock 1000 class. The 21-year old, who...

Muir on Easton and Ellison

10 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Muir on Easton and Ellison

Swan Honda team owner Shaun Muir unveiled his new-look team of Stuart Easton and James Ellison at the Carole Nash MCN Motorcycle Show in London on Sunday. We asked him to evaluate his own riders.

Ellison joins Easton at Swan Honda

10 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Ellison joins Easton at Swan Honda

James Ellison will be Stuart Easton’s team-mate at Swan Honda in BSB this year. The worst kept secret in the history of the series was confirmed today (Sunday) at the Carole Nash MCN Motorcycle Show...

Karl Harris gets Aprilia Superstock ride

10 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Karl Harris gets Aprilia Superstock ride

Karl Harris’s career has been saved at the 11th hour with an Aprilia RSV4 ride in the National Superstock championship. Harris had a difficult 2009 season after being sacked late in the year, even...

Stuart Easton’s Swan Honda BSB colours revealed

03 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Stuart Easton’s Swan Honda BSB colours revealed

These are exclusive first pictures of the new Swan Honda livery that Stuart Easton will race with in 2010. Easton will have a team-mate but exactly who that is will not be revealed until the team’s...

Swan Honda boss gives his thoughts on BSB 2010

03 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Swan Honda boss gives his thoughts on BSB 2010

Team owner Shaun Muir unveiled his new-look Swan Honda outfit this week exclusively for MCN readers. So after we got the photo shoot done that appears in MCN today (Wednesday, Febraury 3) we sat down...

Why BSB’s radical new points structure is a winner

03 February 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Why BSB’s radical new points structure is a winner

The MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship has a radical, not to mention complicated, new championship points structure for 2010. It’s all been done with one aim in mind – to spice up the...

Dakota Mamola to race in British 125 series

01 February 2010 by Matthew Birt

Dakota Mamola to race in British 125 series

Dakota Mamola, the 15-year-old son of MotoGP legend Randy Mamola, will contest at least nine rounds of the 2010 British GP125 championship. The Barcelona-based Californian will race for Team KRP,...

Extensive Brands resurfacing project

28 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

Extensive Brands resurfacing project

MotorSport Vision has carried out a major resurfacing project at Brands Hatch, improving the quality of the track surface for competitors, trackday participants and driving experience guests on over...

Mainwaring on Kawasaki superstocker

28 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

Mainwaring on Kawasaki superstocker

MSS Colchester Kawasaki have signed Howie Mainwaring to race a ZX-10R in the National Superstock Championship. Twenty-two year old Mainwaring has raced in the BSB and Superstock series for many years...

Hastings joins Team Green in Junior Superstock

28 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

Reigning British GP125 ACU Academy Cup champion Tim Hastings will step up to the National Superstock 600 Championship as one of Kawasaki’s Team Green Junior Superstock riders. As part of their Team Green initiative in Junior Superstock, 17-year old Hastings will be building on an already impressive career. He started racing via mini-moto in his native Scotland, and won the Scottish Championship...

Peter Hickman steps up to BSB proper

25 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

Peter Hickman steps up to BSB proper

Louth-based Peter Hickman is to remain with the Northamptonshire-based Ultimate Racing team and will make the step up from the British Superbike Cup series to contest the full British Superbike...

Johnson joins AIM Suzuki for BSB Evo

22 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

Johnson joins AIM Suzuki for BSB Evo

Roads star Gary Johnson will race an AIM Suzuki in the new BSB Evo class this year as well as in the three major international road races at the North West 200, TT and Ulster Grand Prix. Johnson said:...

Barn Corner gets run-off

22 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Barn Corner gets run-off

It’s one of those things you never thought possible. The exit of Barn Corner at Cadwell – with proper run-off.  While everyone has been wrapped up, concentrating on who’s riding what in 2010 and how...

2010 HM Plant Honda: talking tech

13 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

2010 HM Plant Honda: talking tech

MCN talked to the team’s two crew chiefs Adrian Gorst (with Ryuichi Kiyonari in 2010) and Chris Pike (in Brookes’ corner this year) to find out what they think about their rider’s chances in 2010 –...

Honda Racing’s stats makes them top team in BSB

13 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Honda Racing’s stats makes them top team in BSB

Honda Racing, based in Louth since 1990 (and home to the HM Plant Honda team), is Britain’s most successful racing team. Don’t believe it? Check out the stats! 57 – WSB race wins between 1994 and 2002...

Michael Laverty signs for Relentless Suzuki

13 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Michael Laverty signs for Relentless Suzuki

Michael Laverty has signed to ride for the Relentless by TAS Suzuki team in BSB this year. He joins National Superstock champion Alastair Seeley in the all-Irish team line-up. Laverty won the 2007...