Another Frenchman switches sides to Honda. This time it is French S1 Champion Sylvain Bidart who will be leaving the Husqvarna Cross2R team to ride for the French Luc1 Honda team in 2009. Sylvain will be competing in the S1 class on a CRF450R in 2009. His teammates are S2 rider Guillaume Flandin and S3 rider Thomas Verscheure.