The British Superbike Championship is, without doubt, one of the best domestic motorcycle racing championships in the world. World-class riders compete on their streak-of-lightening motorbikes, at some of the best circuits in the country, nay the world. But there are some peculiar rules that BSB employs. Rules that you may or may not agree with. Rules that have been put in place for the benefit of the teams and their budgets, for the benefit of safety, for the benefit of competition and, possibly, for the benefit of the organisers. So join us as we explore some of the slightly bonkers rules of British Superbikes?

One bike is plenty

In the olden days (before 2010) 90% of the people who raced anything in British Superbikes, from the British 125cc Championship, through Superstock, to the Superbike class itself, had a pair of bikes. Usually a main one, set up for dry weather, and a spare, set up for the wet. But that all changed in 2010. Because for the last 12 years, nobody, in any of the BSB classes, has been allowed to have a second (or spare) bike.
The idea was to try and keep the costs down for riders and teams. After all, race bikes aren?t cheap, and two of them are twice the price. On the face of it, that makes a lot of sense. It?s taking the advantage away from the teams that have got the budget to bring a spare bike.

Except one school of thought says it?s not doing that at all. There?s an argument to say that taking away the option of having a secon...