Berwick Bandits capture Aussie talent Reid Battye

Berwick Bandits have completed their 2026 line-up with the capture of highly-rated Australian Reid Battye. The 24-year-old, who won the Northern Territory State Championship late last year, will be making his British debut with the Borders’ side. An accomplished all-round motorcycle racer, Battye competed in SuperSport and Superbikes both nationally and internationally before switching to […]

Double sponsorship boost for the Berwick Bandits

Berwick Bandits’ preparations for the 2026 Championship season – their 59th – has been given a double boost by the return of two major sponsors. Wooler-based R.E.D Campers have confirmed they will be the headline sponsors for a second season with another Northumbrian firm, STS re-signing as the club’s powered-by backer. R.E.D Campers is a […]

Jye Etheridge to skipper the Berwick Bandit in 2026

Jye Etheridge will lead his adopted home town Berwick Bandits in the 2026 Championship campaign. The Newcastle, New South Wales native captains the Bandits for a second time, returning to Shielfield Park for an eighth season after spending 2025 with Workington. Etheridge set up home in the Borders town shortly after joining the club in […]

Jack Smith returns to the Berwick Bandits for 2026

Jack Smith is returning for a second season with the Berwick Bandits. Smith, who celebrated his 27th birthday on Wednesday, is the sixth rider revealed by the Borders’ side taking his place alongside 2025 team-mates Nick Morris and Peter Kildemand and winter signings Jye Etheridge, Victor Palovaara and Lasse Fredriksen. He joined Berwick in May […]

Jye Etheridge unveiled as Berwick Bandits signing number five!

Jye Etheridge has been unveiled as Berwick Bandits’ fifth signing for the 2026 season. He rejoins after spending 2025 at Workington, resuming an impressive career with the Borders’ club which has seen him score 798 points in Berwick colours – 600 at Shielfield Park alone – during his previous seven seasons. Arriving in 2017 after […]

Lasse Fredriksen signs for the Berwick Bandits

Berwick Bandits continue to assemble a cosmopolitan side for 2026, Norwegian Lasse Fredriksen joining Dane Peter Kildemand, Swede Victor Palovaara and Australian Nick Morris in their confirmed starting line-up. The 28-year-old switches to Northumberland having spent 2025 at Plymouth following three years as an Edinburgh Monarch. Twice national champion, Fredriksen has been a regular in […]

Nick Morris becomes signing number two for the Berwick Bandits

Berwick Bandits have unveiled a second signing, Australian Nick Morris joining Peter Kidemand in the Borders side’s starting line-up for 2026. Morris re-signs after joining the Bandits in August last year as a replacement for injured skipper Danyon Hume. The 31-year-old was available after completing a two-year ban for doping offences and, despite initial race […]

Berwick Bandits sign Peter Kildemand for 2026

Berwick Bandits have unveiled their first signing with the news that Dane Peter Kildemand returns for a second season with the Borders’ side. The super stylish Dane re-signs on an 8.05 average after a 2025 season which saw the two-time GP winner return to British speedway after an eight-year gap. Kildemand ended the campaign in […]

Nick Morris signs for the Berwick Bandits in place of Craig Cook!

Berwick Bandits have made their second major signing of the week. Nick Morris signed for the Borders’ club yesterday and will make his debut at Edinburgh next Friday (1 August), replacing Craig Cook at number one in a redeclared seven. Dane Jonas Jeppesen put pen to paper on Monday as a replacement for injured skipper […]

Danyon Hume fractures two vertebrae in big crash at Berwick

Berwick Bandits skipper Danyon Hume suffered two fractured vertebrae in the terrifying crash which brought their match against Edinburgh to a premature conclusion on Saturday. He was taken to the Northumbria Specialist Care Hospital in Cramlington following the heat 12 crash and is still being assessed before specialists decide whether surgery is required. Hume was […]