Motorcycle Racing Podcast: Off Track With Carruthers And Bice

Next weekend, June 26-28, MotoAmerica will hold its second race of the season at Road America and part of that second round will be the debut of the MotoAmerica Mini Cup by Motul Series. As the importer of Ohvale motorcycles, the bikes used in the Mini Cup by Motul, former racer Brandon Cretu is the co-owner of Rise Moto and the man behind the new class. We had a chat with Cretu to fill us in on h...

Tryg Westby is the epitome of cool. The owner of Westby Racing, which features Mathew Scholtz in the MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike class and Cody Wyman in the Liqui Moly Junior Cup class, can be seen at every MotoAmerica race and he's usually on a motorcycle of some sort. Westby is a former racer, the proud father of the late Dane Westby and the owner of one of the most successful teams in the...

Kevin Schwantz joined Carruthers and Bice for this week's Off Track with Carruthers and Bice. That's right: Kevin Schwantz. As in 500cc World Champion Kevin Schwantz. The Texan talks about his racing career, his rivalry with MotoAmerica President and three-time World Champion Wayne Rainey, his favorite hobby, racing then and racing now and a lot more. Give it a listen and you won't...

He's baaaack! Just when it looked as though Jake Lewis was out of a ride and would spend the season sitting at home, he got the call from Steve Scheibe to come to Road America and ride the second Scheibe Racing BMW S 1000 RR in the opening two rounds of the 2020 MotoAmerica HONAS Superbike Series. And here we are. Lewis will take the BMW on track at Road America on Friday and will race it on...

Eric Bostrom is a former AMA Road Racing Champion, earning his titles in the 1998 AMA Formula Xtreme Championship and in the 2001 AMA Supersport Series. He also finished second it the AMA Superbike Championship on two occasions - to Mat Mladin in 2001 and to Nicky Hayden in 2002. Bostrom did a lot of winning in his career and his 15 AMA Superbike wins put him tied for 10th all-time with Freddie Sp...

Between them, Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice have zero National Championships and the same amount of World Championships. Zero. Put it this way, unless there is a title for flapping your lips, these two will pass away without having a championship of any kind to their credit. But here they are... alone for the 81st edition of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about all things MotoAmerica,...

Only four racers have completed the Grand Slam in AMA racing - victories in all four disciplines of flat track (mile, half mile, short track and TT) and a National road race - and one of those is Doug Chandler. Chandler is a three-time AMA Superbike Champion, a podium finisher in 500cc Grand Prix racing and, most recently, both the rider representative and the race director for MotoAmerica. Carrut...

How's this for a resume? One AMA Superbike Championship, five Supersport Championships, two Formula Extreme Championships, a World Endurance Championship, a World Superbike podium, and a season in 500cc Grand Prix racing. Impressed? Meet legend Miguel Duhamel, the man who has won more AMA road races (86) than anyone in history. The French Canadian with a quick with and a zillion stories sat d...

Ben Bostrom is an AMA Superbike and AMA Supersport Champion, a multi-time World Superbike race winner, an AMA Supermoto Champion and an XGames Gold Medalist in Supermoto. And he's about to try something else that MotoAmerica fans will be interested in. Bostrom chatted with Carruthers and Bice about all things motorcycling and life, and this is an episode of Off Track that you most definitely...

Ben Spies won three AMA Superbike Championships in a row, went overseas and won a World Superbike Championship in his first attempt, and then went on to have a successful, if not injury shortened MotoGP career, winning a race in the process. Since his retirement in 2013, Spies has remained active in racing as a riding coach or just someone who young American riders can gather advice from. We got t...

Cory Alexander comes from a motorcycling family with his grandfather owning the oldest Kawasaki dealership in the country. Alexander's uncle, Richie, is a former AMA 750cc Supersport Champion who also played a key role in Michael Jordan's Suzuki team. Corey will race in the 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike and Stock 1000 Championships and Carruthers and Bice caught up with the New Yorker on on...

John Ulrich wears many hats in the MotoAmerica paddock. For starters, he is the team owner of Team Hammer, which has been racing for 40 years and is the new home of the factory Suzukis - ridden by Toni Elias and Bobby Fong - in the MotoAmerica Superbike Series. He's also the founder and editor of Roadracing World magazine, a monthly publication that specializes in road racing coverage from th...

Michael Hill is one of the voices of the MotoAmerica Series, the Brit talking his way through hours and hours of live coverage on MotoAmerica Live+ throughout the 2019 season and he will be back for more in 2020. Hill is also one of the few people to see the only two races held so far in this 2020 season - the World Superbike opener in Phillip Island and the Qatar round of the Moto2 and Moto3 Worl...

Joe Roberts caught the world's attention in Qatar when he set a new Moto2 track record and finished fourth in the race. But we were already well-aware of his talent on a motorcycle since he is former MotoAmerica champion. Carruthers and Bice caught up with Joe in Episode #73 of Off Track, so give it a listen and get to know Joe. Instagram: @joerobertsracer Twitter: @joerobertsracer Facebook:...

MotoAmerica is fresh off its two-day Dunlop Preseason Test at Barber Motorsports Park where Carruthers and Bice got the chance to sit down and chat with four-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier, the man who ended up the fastest of the fast at the test, for this week's Off Track podcast. Beaubier pulls no punches in talking about the past and the future as he gears up for an a...

Tom Halverson has been a member of Yamaha Motor U.S.A. since 1987, working with almost every rider who has ever thrown a leg over a Yamaha in road race trim. Riders with a pedigree from two-time World Superbike Champion Colin Edwards to four-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier.  And all points in between. We sat down for a chat with Halverson and chatted about his new role in the...

Steve Scheibe is the team owner of Scheibe Racing BMW and he's also an engineer with a background that includes being the man behind the Harley-Davidson VR1000 Superbike program. Scheibe recently landed his new rider for the 2020 season - Josh Herrin - and we finally got the chance to chat with Steve about the BMW, Herrin and his history in the sport in this week's episode of Off Track w...

South African Cameron Petersen has some ground-breaking news on this episode of Off Track With Carruthers and Bice. We won't ruin it, so go ahead and give it a listen and see what Mr. Petersen's 2020 racing plans are for the MotoAmerica Series. Instagram: @campetersen45 Twitter: @campetersen72 Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/cameron.petersen.56 Support the show

This Off Track podcast is a little different. For starters, our guest isn't a MotoAmerica racer or team member. Jensen Beeler is, however, the editor of Asphalt & Rubber, a popular motorcycle website. Turns out Jensen isn't totally pumped on the recently announced Baggers race that MotoAmerica has scheduled as part of the Superbike Speedfest at Monterey, so we sat down for a little c...

MotoAmerica Supersport Champion Bobby Fong joins Carruthers and Bice for this week's Off Track Podcast and our chat is hot on the heels of news that Fong has inked a deal to race an M4 ECSTAR Suzuki in the 2020 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship. That's right, Superbike. With plenty to talk about, Fong fills us in on life as Bobby Fong since the new deal was announced. We also throw a fe...

He's a Texan. He's an AMA 250cc Champion. He's a two-time World Superbike Champion. He's was a MotoGP star from 2003 to 2014. He owns the Texas Tornado Boot Camp. He works as an analyst for Britain's MotoGP coverage on BT Sports. He's Colin Edwards II and he's our guest on this week's Off Track with Carruthers and Bice and he talks about parts of his career,...

Jason Pridmore is one of the voices of MotoAmerica, the former racer sharing the booth with Greg White for FOX Sports 2's live coverage of the Superbike Series. However, the term former racer doesn't really do Pridmore justice. After all, the Californian won two AMA Championships and two World Endurance Championships during his career. In addition to using his extensive racing background...

Guests? We don't need no stinkin' guests. Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice go it alone in this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers and Bice with the pair bringing us up to speed on all things MotoAmerica. So where do they think Josh Herrin will end up? Listen in and find out about that and so much more. Support the show

Chris Parrish won the inaugural MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship in 2018 and ended up fourth in the series standings in 2019. For 2020, the Tennessean will be armed with Andy Palmer Yamahas and ready for an all-out assault on recapturing his crown. We took Parrish away from working on his bikes at Palmer's shop in Minnesota to chat with Carruthers and Bice for this week's Off Track Pod...

Those of you who watch MotoAmerica on TV or via streaming on MotoAmerica Live+ know who Hannah Lopa is. For those who don't (shame on you), she's the host of the "Inside MotoAmerica" show that airs on NBC Sports and the pit reporter on the FOX Sports 2 airings of MotoAmerica's Superbike Series and on MotoAmerica Live+. She's also the wife of MotoAmerica Superbike race...