Former Kawasaki World Superbike team boss Paul Bird has kissed and made up with the Japanese factory, and will run a brace of works ZX-10Rs in next year's British Superbike Championship as well as making a foray into MotoGP with a CRT team sporting a UK-built chassis.

The Cumbrian chicken magnate won't say who is fabricating the CRT chassis or what will power it but the smart money says it will be a BMW for simplicity's sake. Meanwhile, the Penrith-based team will be back for BSB action, most likely with Stuart Easton as number one rider which may see MSS Kawasaki hold on to Gary Mason and Ian Lowry.

“I am finished with World Superbikes. They are not interested in British teams. I want to build a position in MotoGP where, as the formula changes, I can be fully competitive by 2014. I’m having a chassis built for the MotoGP bike. We haven’t decided on which engine to use yet, but it will be competitive under the new claiming rules in that part of the field," said Bird, speaking bikesportnews.com this morning.

"It will also be great to be back in BSB. They run an extremely good series and the racing is fantastic as television viewers would see on Sunday. We will be running a different outfit to Nick at MSS, but of course I expect to have Stuart Easton back on board. I have yet to decide who the other rider will be. I’ve a number of sponsors lined up and so we should have a very competitive outfit.

This change of tack for the Bird team follows a season of frustration in World Superbikes and a feeling that he is not wanted by the organisers.

“No one came to talk to me at Imola, they make rule changes, like the fly-by-wire on the Hondas, at the drop of a hat and, compared with MotoGP, they are unprofessional. At Aragon I was made to feel very welcome,” he added.

Bird was non-committal on his choice of rider for MotoGP except that he would be British, but recognises that his first couple of years would be a learning and development period.