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Back To The Future 1/4/2005

Kurtis Roberts is heading back to the team where he had the most success. And he's happy about it.

After a dismal year of MotoGP racing on his father's Proton team, Roberts will rejoin the Erion Honda team for the 2005 season - a team for which he won two AMA Championships in 2000.

"I'm back where I was before I tried to help the Proton team," Roberts said today from Colorado. "The bike's better now, the new bike, and hopefully I'll have my whole crew back from when I won the double championship. That was the good part of the deal because we're all really comfortable with each other. It's all back in Kevin's shop and it's going to be good."

Roberts plans to ride the Honda CBR1000RR Superbike for the first time during tests next month at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California.

In addition to his double-championship season in 2000, Roberts also had considerable success riding a Kevin Erion-owned Superbike in 2003, winning two of the final three AMA Superbike Nationals en route to finshing third in the championship.