Motorcycle Racing Podcast: Off Track With Carruthers And Bice

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 hi...

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 Sta...

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, R...

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 un...

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...

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 Chuckwall...

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. S...

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 C...

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...

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...

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 Bag...

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 de...

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 Supercr...

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...

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...

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...

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 tea...

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...

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...

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...

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 Am...

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 Br...

We often get the question: What's the most popular episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice thus far? The answer: Ben Spies.  So for old time's sake, we're going to repost the Ben Spies episode, which was, believe it or not, just our 77th episode - 87 weeks ago. Ben Spies won three AMA Superbike Championships in a row, went overseas and won a World Superbike Championship in his...

No matter how many times Josh Hayes is a guest on Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, he continues to amaze and tell us things we didn't know. This episode is no different. We chatted with the four-time AMA Superbike Champion about everything from his burning love for racing motorcycles, to his recent motocross escapades, to the meaning of the Daytona 200 and Daytona International Speedway, a...

Garrett Gerloff is back in Texas after a difficult season in the 2021 World Superbike Championship, a season he'd probably like to do-over. Although he finished seventh in the World Championship in his sophomore season in the series, Gerloff's year was marred by the incidents he was involved in along the way, namely the crash at Assen where he cleaned out Yamaha's Toprak Razgatlıoğl...