Geoff May aboard the Team Hero EBR in the US this year.

American manufacturer EBR Motorcycles will enter the Superbike World Championship with Team Hero in 2014, switching from AMA Superbikes.

The two-rider team, aboard the EBR 1190RX, will be represented by experienced American riders Geoff May and Aaron Yates.

May, who is an accomplished AMA rider, has ridden the EBR machine in the states for the past two seasons claiming a podium finish at the Sonoma Raceway circuit in 2012 on his way to fifth position overall in the championship.

Yates, who has over 20 years racing experience, joined the squad for their 2013 AMA campaign finishing a respectable eighth overall in the final standings.

The team will be run by team owner Claudio Quintarelli and team manager Giulio Bardi, both proud to field the first American motorcycle to contest the world championship with two American riders.

“More than three decades of racing, engineering, and manufacturing experience goes into every EBR motorcycle,” said Erik Buell, founder of EBR Motorcycles. “The EBR 1190RX has some very unique engineering technology and how to optimise this for each race series is something that takes time to learn.

“With the winter testing ban, we will have to wait and see where we are in terms of current pace and performance. Nobody is expecting podiums, but we will be hard at work, learning and improving. We are confident EBR will bring a fun and exciting story to the series, and know the results will come.”

The announcement was made official overnight by Dorna WSBK.