Leon Haslam has proposed to his long-time girlfriend Olivia Stringer and she said yes. Oli is an old friend of editor David Miller and he said: "Bollocks, that's another one off the list." Congratulations to you both from all at www.bikesportnews.com
Apparently, a bout of anorexia has infected the Supersport paddock. Anthony West has dropped four kilos in weight, Miguel Praia is down to just over 60kilos and Cal Crutchlow is on the Slim-Fast. It's all an attempt to get down to Eugene Laverty's weight, which is four-fifths of nothing, but that isn't the secret behind the Parkalgar Honda's speed. That's all down to...
One of Andrew Pitt's mechanics got a bit giddy with the spanner and over-tightened his clip-on after he complained it was loose in morning warm-up. It was so tight that the outer fork tube got squashed and the inside couldn't slide inside it properly.
All of the Honda runners are still suffering with chatter but it seems that Haslam is the one person that can deal with it. His team manager Johan Stigefelt needs to stop protesting other HRC-backed teams as well.
There seems to be a fuel pump problem with the Honda Fireblade as both the Stiggy Hondas suffered with it and Carlos Checa reckons that when he opened the throttle mid-corner, nothing happened.
MotoGP refugee John Hopkins says that his first target is team-mate Leon Haslam. Good luck with that.
Yukio Kagayama reckons that he got some fluid on the front disc of his GSX-R1000 and he couldn't brake properly. But still got a sixth in race one. Good effort.
Ben Spies' DNF in race one was his first for four years, according to his crew chief. That is some kind of record.
Gino Rea got a podium in the European Superstock 600 race while suffering tonsillitis and will be on a Superbike at Assen this weekend with the Duntep team. The Dutch squad usually run fast female Iris Ten Katen, who is a former European Womens' Champion. Be afraid, Gino.
Troy Corser and Ruben Xaus will test a tuned version of the S1000R before the next WSB round at Assen and it will be raced at Monza, which has not inconsiderable straights.
