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1998 AMA Superbike Champion Ben Bostrom could announce his 2005 deal within the next week, according to his manager.

“Right now, we have some offers in World Superbike that we are fielding and working our way through and also a couple of AMA opportunities. We pretty much went through the offers, and in Ben’s mind he knows where he wants to be and what he’d like to do. It’s just a matter of, basically, looking to see what’s there and selecting the one that best enables him to accomplish his career goals,” Bostrom’s manager Fred Bramblett, President of OMS Sports, told Roadracingworld.com Monday. “Everything’s gone back-and-forth several times, so we should be in the last days of it. We should be able to do some sort of informal announcement on it between now and Monday.”

The AMA opportunities being considering are Superbike rides, according to Bramblett.

Bramblett is currently recovering from injuries sustained in a motocross crash four weeks ago.

“I fell off my dirt bike and shattered my right humorous and rotator cuff and tore my bicep loose, a bunch of different damage. They couldn’t piece me back together again, so they did a complete joint replacement. They went with a titanium prosthesis,” said Bramblett. “It’s a long slow healing process. It’s just one of those things you have to work through. I’ve got an immobilizer on, going to therapy. It’s a little bit of inconvenience with traveling and stuff over the next few weeks, but other than that, everything’s fine.”

Bramblett said he didn’t expect to ride again for six to eight months.