MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Austalian Broc Parkes has reportedly signed with CRS Echo Team Honda Racing to contest the 2010 World Superbike championship. Parkes, the second place finisher in the 2007 WSS championship, had a season to forget in 2009, winding up in 18th place in WSBK racing a factory Kawasaki ZX10 for Paul Bird Motorsports. CRS Echo, who fielded Michael Laverty in WSS in 2009, has acquired Stiggy...
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Conor Cummins and Ian Hutchinson finished second and third at the 2009 Macau Grand Prix, securing a double podium for the Paul Bird Motorsport Kawasaki team.
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... homes and businesses lost power as soaring temperatures threw the electricity grid into meltdown. Paul Bird, spokesman for the energy market operator, said Melbourne had enough power to meet demand and have some in reserve if the extreme temperatures were not repeated. ''Based on the projections for this summer … there is sufficient supply to meet that demand level, but it...
Superbike News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Aussie Chris Vermeulen is hoping to end his MotoGP career in style this weekend and preserve his 100 per cent point-scoring record in 2009. Vermeulen, who is leaving MotoGP to return to World Superbikes with Paul Bird’s factory-backed Kawasaki squad...
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Chris Vermeulen may not have been allowed to take part in the post-season Portimao World Superbike test, but the 2010 Kawasaki signing was present in the Paul Bird Motorsport pits...
bike blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Chris Vermeulen may not have been allowed to take part in the post-season Portimao World Superbike test, since he still has one more race as a Rizla Suzuki MotoGP rider, but the 2010 Kawasaki signing was still present in the Paul Bird Motorsport pits. "I was hoping to get a ride on the bike at the Portimao test, but my current team does not want to release me from my current contract...
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Following on the recent announcement that Chris Vermeulen will race a factory-backed Kawasaki in next season's World Superbike Championship, team owner Paul Bird has today announced that it will be Yorkshireman Tom Sykes who will partner the Australian aboard the works Ninja ZX-10Rs.
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
After a wild rumor appeared last night that Paul Bird was about to sign Scott Redding to join Chris Vermeulen at the factory Kawasaki squad in World Superbike - a rumor that appears to have been a piece of deliberate misinformation from the Bird camp, after promising an exclusive to Britain's Motorcycle News, and was quickly scotched by a look at the FIM regulations, which confirmed...
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... back to full fitness, Sykes will next be seen in Kawasaki colours after announcing a deal with the Paul Bird Motorsport prepared team in the run up to the final round. He will join MotoGP refugee Chris Vermeulen.
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
It has now been officially announced that Tom Sykes will ride alongside Chris Vermeulen at the factory-backed PBM Kawasaki team in the 2010 World Superbike Championship.Whereas Vermeulen - a former World Supersport champion, ten time WSBK race winner and winner of the 2007 French MotoGP - is joining forces with Bird for the first time, it will be Sykes' second spell with the team having raced...
UK-TOP-News (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
MANX sensation Conor Cummins will ride a works Kawasaki for Paul Bird's World Superbike Team at next month's 43rd Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix in the
