SITTINGBOURNE AC Associates Crusaders Speedway team have been boosted by the news that Peter Collyer is signing on loan from Wimbledon Dons for the rest of 2005.

The 23-year-old former Reading Racer finished fifth in the Conference League Riders Championship final in 1999 when a Rye House rider, but has fallen out of favour this season with the south London outfit.

However, he made a hugely impressive return to the track in the recent Four Team tournament at Plough Lane.

Collyer, who is classified as a Grade Seven rider, will sign for Crusaders ahead of this weekend's League double-header.

He said: "It will be great to get back into action again. I've got good machinery now and my confidence has been boosted by my performance [in the Four Team tournament] when I won two of my four races and also by Sittingbourne's faith in me.

"I'm looking forward to helping the side in our crucial last few matches of the season."