Three-time 500cc World Champion and MotoAmerica Wayne Rainey really needs no introduction so we'll jump right into it. The boys were fortunate enough to tie Rainey down for this week's episode of the Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast with a not-so-quick chat in which Rainey talked about his recent trip to England for the Goodwood Festival Of Speed, his ride on his 1992 World Championship-winning Yamaha YZR500, MotoAmerica's growth, and much more. Give it a listen. Instagr...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 194
If you want to know what's going on in the MotoAmerica paddock, you go see Chuck. Who is fighting with whom? Go see Chuck. Chuck is Chuck Giacchetto, the hyper-active, fast-talking team manager of Westby Racing - one of the premier MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike teams that is in the battle for podium finishes week in and week out. We caught up with Giacchetto for this week's episode of the Off Track With Carruthers And Bice podcast and we turned him loose. In fact, we barely had to ask...
Jul 14, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 193
You just never know who you're gonna run into when you venture to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for a MotoAmerica event. Well, Carruthers and Bice struck oil on move-in day when they not only found three-time World Champion Kenny Roberts Sr. but were able to wrangle him into joining them for a sit-down interview for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers and Bice. Roberts doesn't mince his words and he had plenty to say about myriad of subjects, including his recent tr...
Jul 07, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 192
This week the boys are going it alone with a 'We don't need no stinkin' guest" episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. The dynamic duo chat about all things MotoAmerica with the series reaching its halfway mark and a trip to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca just around the corner. Carruthers also has to get on a knee and apologize to Bice, but you'll have to listen to see what that's all about. So here we go... the 191st episode of Off Track With Carruthers An...
Jul 01, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 191
Italian Danilo Petrucci currently leads the 2022 MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship by seven points as the fifth round of the championship gets started at Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington, this weekend. We sat down for a lengthy discussion with the former MotoGP racer to talk about everything from the MotoAmerica Championship, track safety, life in America and much more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the show...
Jun 23, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 190
If you currently subscribe to MotoAmerica Live+ then you are familiar with the post-racing career of Roger Hayden with the former AMA Supersport Champion and MotoAmerica Superbike race winner providing color commentary from each and every round of the MotoAmerica Championship. If you don't subscribe, you should because you'll not only see all the races live, you'll learn a lot from Hayden's commentary. We caught up with Hayden for this week's episode of Off Track With Ca...
Jun 16, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 189
Westby Racing's Mathew Scholtz rolls into Road America this weekend trailing Danilo Petrucci by just four points in the MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship. Although he's happy with where he sits in the title chase, Scholtz isn't stoked on the five second-place finishes on his scorecard. He'd like to fix that this weekend. We chatted with Scholtz about the desire to win, racing a Superbike in the MotoAmerica Championship, the last round at VIRginia International Racew...
Jun 02, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 188
Corey Alexander won the opening round of the MotoAmerica Yuasa Stock 1000 Championship at Road Atlanta after a race-long battle with his friend and fellow JP43 instructor Michael Gilbert. The new Tytler Cycle team, of which Alexander is a big part, tasted success again when fill-in rider Kyle Wyman rode PJ Jacobsen's BMW to third in the Medallia Superbike race. The team left Georgia on a high. Unfortunately, things changed at VIRginia International Raceway when Alexander had a big crash tha...
May 27, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 187
In this special video edition of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, recorded at VIR, Mr. Four-Time Superbike Champ Josh Hayes is our guest, and he talks about his experience in this year's Daytona 200, plus the weekend's upcoming Supersport races where he will be back in the saddle of the Squid Hunter Yamaha YZF-R6 with an eye towards adding to the 83 all-time AMA race wins that rank him second only to Miguel Duhamel in the history of the sport. Definitely check out this episode. Supp...
May 19, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 186
Trevor Standish is a busy young man. In addition to being a full-time racer in the MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship, he's also a college student. If that's not busy enough, he also helps his mom and dad run the family-owned Pure Attitude Racing team that fields Malaysian Liam MacDonald in Twins Cup and Texan Chase Black in the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup series in addition to Standish. Standish's plate is big and there's a lot on it. We caught up with the youngster fr...
May 11, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 185
On April 24, Joe Roberts became the first American since John Kocinski in 1990 to win an intermediate class Grand Prix when he took victory in the Grand Prix of Portugal at Portimao. The win was Roberts' first in World Championship racing and to say it lifted a gorilla-sized monkey from his back would be an understatement. With 15 rounds to go in the battle for the Moto2 World Championship, Roberts not only finds himself as a Grand Prix winner he also sits fifth in the title chase. We caugh...
May 06, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 184
Kayla Yaakov is a rising star in the MotoAmerica paddock and a force to be reckoned with in the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup class on her Altus Motorsports Kawasaki Ninja 400. Currently third in the championship point standings after the opening two races of the season at Road Atlanta, Yaakov looked to have her first career victory in the class before being docked two positions for passing under a yellow flag. Still, she was third and was on the Junior Cup podium for the second time in her ...
Apr 28, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 183
Travis Wyman is a busy man these days. It happens when you have four races on a single weekend and that's what Wyman is facing this weekend at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Wyman will race his factory Harley-Davidson in the Mission King Of The Baggers and his Tytlers Cycle/RideHVMC Racing BMW M1000 RR in Stock 1000 and the two Medallia Superbike races. We chatted with Wyman to talk about his schedule and more for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. Support the s...
Apr 21, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 182
Team owner/racer Michael Gilbert finished fourth in last year's MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship, missing out on second in the title chase by just five points, and he also finished fourth in the Superbike Cup. Last week in Texas, Gilbert's team rolled into Circuit of The Americas in style with its 18-wheeler nicely wrapped with team sponsors Cycle World powered by Octane and Chuckwalla Racing prominently on display for all to see. Now a premier MotoAmerica Superbike team, Gilbert wi...
Apr 14, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 181
In this special episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, we get the Beaubier brothers together to talk about Cameron's return to America and COTA as a sophomore racer in the Moto2 World Championship and Ezra's return to the MotoAmerica Championship as a Stock 1000 and Superbike Cup rider. The brothers had a lot to say, and so did Carruthers and Bice, so don't miss this one. Support the show
Apr 07, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 180
There's nothing like a second chance and PJ Jacobsen is getting that in 2022 as he comes off a season without racing to jump smack dab in the deep end with a return to action in the MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike Championship. Jacobsen will ride for the new Tytlers Cycle Racing team aboard a brand-new BMW M 1000 RR . With gobs of experience earned in the World Supersport and World Superbike Championship as well as a runner-up finish in the 2019 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship, Jacobsen ...
Apr 01, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 179
Jeremy McWilliams has finished on the podium in two 500cc Grands Prix. He's also won a 250cc Grand Prix. He's ridden for Kenny Roberts' GP team and even put the KR3 on pole position for the Australian Grand Prix in 2002. He's also dabbled in British Superbike, ridden an Aprilia Cube in MotoGP and has won races at the Northwest 200. Oh, and then there's that movie gig with Scarlett Johansson. A rider blessed with not only speed but with the technical ability to develop mo...
Mar 19, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 178
Nolan Lamkin has been racing in the MotoAmerica Championship since the series began in 2015, and we've watched the Indianapolis native grow as a person and as a road racer. Despite only being 21 years old, Lamkin is a "thinking man's" rider who understands all aspects of the sport. And, this year, he's put together a Stock 1000 program where he will be aboard a BMW S 1000 RR with a brand-new-to-the-series title sponsor. Carruthers And Bice spent some quality time with &q...
Mar 16, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 177
Former racer Roland Sands has built himself a nice little business in Long Beach, California. You may have heard of it... Roland Sands Design. In addition to designing and manufacturing aftermarket parts, custom motorcycles and anything else him and his team come up with, Sands is also back to being a fixture at MotoAmerica races as he is not only fielding five bikes in the Mission King Of The Baggers races and the Roland Sands Design Super Hooligan National Championship, but he also produces th...
Mar 09, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 176
After a season of Supersport racing in the British Superbike Series, Brandon Paasch is back where he belongs in 2022 with a return to the Auto Parts 4 Less MotoAmerica Championship. And he's also finally on a bike that fits him - the Altus Motorsports Suzuki GSX-R1000 he will race in Stock 1000 and Superbike Cup this season. But first things first - Daytona and the Daytona 200. Paasch will defend his reign as the 2021 Daytona 200 Champion this year on a TOBC Triumph 675 after winning last y...
Mar 02, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 175
Bobby Fong's career and life has changed a lot in the past few months. For starters, he won't be lining up on the MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike grid in 2022 as his career path has taken a turn with Fong taking a "real" job with Alpinestars. The 2019 MotoAmerica Supersport Champion is working for Alpinestars in their racer-support program and is currently traveling from Supercross to Supercross. In March, his work schedule will switch a bit more and he will be racing a Roland...
Feb 26, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 174
With his first race coming at the age of 20, Carl Soltisz got a late start to the motorcycle racing game but he's trying to make up for lost time. In his first full season of MotoAmerica racing, Soltisz ended the season ranked ninth in the 2021 MotoAmerica Supersport Series with a best finish of seventh at Brainerd International Raceway. Soltisz doesn't lack for intelligence as he has a Master's Degree in both Engineering and Business Administration - both of which he puts to good...
Feb 17, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 173
Jake Lewis won six races en route to winning the 2021 MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship (and the MotoAmerica Superbike Cup) on his Altus Motorsports Suzuki and his performance has paid off with a full-time return to the MotoAmerica Medallia Superbike series on the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki team for 2022. Lewis got the call late in 2020 to ride for Altus in 2021, got himself off the couch and back into training, showed up and finished fourth in the first two races at Road Atlanta, then won ...
Feb 10, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 172
He's baaack. Last year, Hayden Gillim returned to the MotoAmerica paddock after what was basically a two-year hiatus to race a Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson in the Mission King Of The Baggers series and he finished third in the championship. He also dipped his toe in the water at Pitt Race with a one-off Stock 1000 ride. Despite missing practice and qualifying on Friday because he was at home in Kentucky working at his day job, Gillim put the Disrupt Racing Suzuki GSX-R1000 on the podiu...
Feb 03, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 171
Harley-Davidson's Kyle Wyman will begin defense of his 2021 MotoAmerica Mission King Of The Baggers Championship in March with two races on the high banks of Daytona International Speedway. Although defending his title won't be easy as he finds himself in the midst of the Harley vs. Indian rivalry, Wyman should find the going a bit easier as he has disbanded his MotoAmerica Superbike team. We caught up with Wyman to discuss his dream ride with Harley-Davidson, the season past and the b...
Jan 27, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 170
South African Dominic Doyle joins us this week on Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to announce his plans for the 2022 MotoAmerica season and his decision to jump over to the Twins Cup class with BARTCON Racing. Doyle, who has raced in MotoAmerica KTM RC Cup, MotoAmerica Junior Cup and MotoAmerica Supersport, will go head to head with the best of the best in Twins Cup, beginning with two races at Daytona in March. He talks about that and much more in episode #169. Instagram: https://www.instagr...
Jan 19, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 169
Talk about some changes... 2013 AMA Superbike Champion Josh Herrin is about to embark on a completely new adventure in the 2022 MotoAmerica Series as he switches classes, motorcycles and teams. Herrin will go from the MotoAmerica Superbike class to the MotoAmerica Supersport class and he will do so on a Ducati Panigale V2 with the Warhorse HSBK Ducati NY team. Herrin got the chance to ride his new steed recently at Daytona International Speedway, the home of the Daytona 200 and the place where h...
Jan 12, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 168
Last year, Ben Gloddy landed on the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup podium 16 times, including his four victories. Teagg Hobbs ended his season ranked fourth in the MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship with five podiums and two wins. For 2022, those two will be teammates as Gloddy moves to the Twins Cup class to join Hobbs on the Robem Engineering team where the pair will compete aboard Aprilia RS 660s. The new teammates joined Carruthers and Bice for this week's episode of Off Track With C...
Jan 05, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 167
We somehow corralled MotoAmerica COO Chuck Aksland into joining us for this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about his long history in the sport and his involvement in MotoAmerica. Aksland started out as a racer, moved into team management as the man behind Kenny Roberts's team when Roberts started building his own Grand Prix bikes, worked at Circuit of The Americas, and is now one of the four MotoAmerica partners. Aksland puts the A in KRAVE after joining f...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 166
If you watch the live coverage from Friday's free practice sessions of Moto2 and Moto3 on MotoGP's worldwide feed, you have heard commentary from Matt Dunn. If you watched the recent "Behind The Stars And Stripes" documentary on Joe Roberts and Cameron Beaubier and their 2021 Moto2 seasons, then you've seen Dunn's work. We caught up with Dunn from his home in Great Britain to get his insights into the Moto2 World Championship and his views on Roberts and Beaubier in...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 165
