Motorcycle Racing Podcast: Off Track With Carruthers And Bice

Jody Barry has raced in the MotoAmerica Championship since he was a young lad scrapping with his buddies in the KTM RC 390 Cup Series.  Barry won twice in the class and had seven other podium finishes before moving up to the Supersport class in 2017. After finishing 15th in that championship, Barry went a bit AWOL as he focused his efforts on club racing. But that all changed this past season with...

If you spend any time at all hanging around the Westby Racing pit at a MotoAmerica event, you'll certainly see Ed Sullivan with his hands all over Mathew Scholtz's Yamaha YZF-R1. And if you don't see him initially, you'll likely hear a British accent coming from the team's awning at some point. That would be Sullivan. We caught up with the Westby Racing crew chief on this...

Jason Pridmore won two AMA Championships as a racer and since retirement has built his business JP43 Training into one of the most successful motorcycle training schools in the country. When he's not teaching others, Pridmore goes in front of the camera as the lead analyst on MotoAmerica broadcasts at each and every round of the MotoAmerica Championship. You might say that Pridmore knows a th...

Kaleb De Keyrel finished second in the 2019 MotoAmerica Twins Cup Series and that set him up as the favorite to take the title in 2021. And he didn't disappoint. The Minnesotan, who now calls Houston, Texas, home, won five races and finished on the podium 10 times en route to the 2021 Twins Cup title on his Robem Engineering Aprilia  RS 660. We caught up with De Kaleb to chat about the 2021 s...

Two-time MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Champion Andrew Lee is ready to embark on a new project for 2022... the King Of The Baggers Championship. The Californian is set to do double duty in 2022 as he will continue to chase another Stock 1000 crown while also dipping his toe in the popular and expanded MotoAmerica King Of The Baggers Championship. We caught up with Lee during a break from testing and coac...

If Sam Lochoff wasn't the surprise of the 2021 MotoAmerica Series, we're not sure who is. The young South African came into the Supersport class fresh off finishing third in the SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup Championship where he had landed on the podium 13 times. But he didn't win. So who knew that Lochoff would be the revelation of the Supersport Series in his rookie season, f...

It wouldn't be a reach to go ahead and label Tige Daane as the Sheriff in the MotoAmerica paddock. After all, the longtime paddock stalwart serves as Technical Director and that means he, along the FIM tech staff, helps formulate the technical rules used in the MotoAmerica Series.  And when its time to go racing, Daane is the man who enforces those rules. If you roll into Parc Ferme and somet...

It's been a trial by fire this year for five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier, who is a rookie in the Moto2 World Championship. But, it all came together for him this past weekend at the Circuit of The Americas where track familiarity paid obvious dividends. Beaubier was our special guest on this episode of Off Track, and Carruthers and Bice talked with CB6 about topics ra...

Jon Cornwell has been around the block - as a top-notch flat tracker and road racer, a suspension tech, and a crew chief - and all that experience paid dividends for the Fresh N' Lean Attack Performance Yamaha team this year as the Canadian helped guide Jake Gagne to the 2021 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship with an incredible 17 wins in 20 starts. We caught up with Cornwell to discuss his...

Paul Carruthers and Sean Bice go it alone in this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as they wrap up the recently concluded 2021 MotoAmerica Series with a look back at each of the classes and the thrilling (and very wet) season finale at Barber Motorsports Park.  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motoamerica/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MotoAmerica Facebook: https://www....

Jake Gagne is three races away from finishing a MotoAmerica Superbike season that he has dominated like nobody before him. With 16 wins on the season out of 17 starts (and a chance to win 19) coming into the series finale at Barber Motorsports Park, Gagne clinched the 2022 MotoAmerica Superbike title a week ago in the penultimate round at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Gagne doesn't like to loo...

Loris Baz is near the end of his debut season in the MotoAmerica HONOS Superbike Championship with the Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati of New York team and it's been a struggle. Faced with a new bike, a new team, a new series, a new country and new on-track rivals, the Frenchman has done much better than he thinks. He's currently fifth in the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship with six podiu...

Benjamin Smith is one of the originals in the "Brat Pack" of 14 and 15 year olds that ruled the roost in the early days of the MotoAmerica KTM RC Cup and was crowned as the class champion in 2017.  From there, Smith didn't mess around and went straight to the big boy class of Supersport where he methodically worked his way up the leaderboard until finally reaching the upper echelon...

Three-time MotoAmerica Champion Rocco Landers is nearing the end of his rookie season of MotoAmerica Supersport racing with the 2019/2020 SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup and 2020 Twins Cup Champion sitting just seven points out of third in the championship.  We caught up with the youngster to talk about life in the "big boy" class of Supersport racing as well as family life, his traini...

Seven women were selected for the Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. program, and in this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, Paul and Sean talked with four of the seven about their first race two weeks ago at Brainerd, their upcoming race at Pitt Race, and other details about BTR. Support the show

Fifteen-year-old Max Toth is making a late-season jump from SportbikeTrackGear.com Junior Cup to Twins Cup, and he'll be riding an Aprilia RS 660 for Robem Engineering. Toth made the announcement on this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, and he also talked about his season so far. Support the show

Chris Parrish was MotoAmerica's very first Twins Cup Champion in 2018 and he's been a fixture in the class ever since. Thus far in 2021, Parrish has earned three podium finishes and sits fifth in the Twins Cup title chase - only 16 points from third - as the series hits the home stretch with just the rounds at Pitt Race, New Jersey Motorsports Park and Barber Motorsports Park left on the...

Part of the OWB Gang paid a visit to Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as Owensboro, Kentucky, residents JD Beach and Roger Hayden talked about Beach's return to the HONOS Superbike paddock at Brainerd International Raceway and Hayden's successful career as a race commentator on MotoAmerica Live+. Support the show

Breeann Poland started in the motorcycle industry as an umbrella girl in the AMA Superbike Series. From there she moved to PR and marketing in the motorcycle industry to race team manager to race team owner.  And now this. Poland is now the head of Marketing for Royal Enfield  North America where, amongst a laundry list of other things, she's in charge of the company's Build. Train. Race...

You know you're successful in other areas of life when people forget that you are a 14-time National Champion. Well, meet 14-time National Drag Racing Champion Terry Vance.  The founder, along with partner Byron Hines, of Vance & Hines, Vance is a success story like no other in the motorcycle industry. Racer, the builder of a company that currently employees 500 people, a team owner in bo...

Toni Elias will take his first laps of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on Kyle Wyman's Panera Bread Ducati. Wyman is injured and will serve as Elias' crew chief this weekend. How will Elias do on the Ducati Panigale V4 R? That remains to be seen, but who better to chat with on this edition of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice than the Elias/Wyman duo? Support the show

Cory Ventura surprised a lot of people with his Supersport performance at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca last October when he finished on the podium in race one and backed that up with a fifth-place finish in race two. Not bad considering it was his only MotoAmerica outing of the year as he'd focused his efforts on racing AFM close to his home in Northern California. Well, next weekend, Vent...

Spaniard Héctor Barberá started racing in the Grand Prix World Championship when he was only 15 years, and he won his first GP in the 125cc class at just 16. A former rider in 125, 250, and MotoGP, Barberá has come to the U.S. to race for Scheibe Racing aboard a BMW S 1000 RR in HONOS Superbike. Incidentally, he posted the fastest trap speed during the race weekend at Road America where he hit 196...

On Sunday at Road America, Kyle Wyman experienced the highs and lows of motorcycle racing in a way that seems almost unfathomable. In just a few short hours, Wyman went from winning his first Mission King Of The Baggers race (and Harley-Davidson's first King Of The Baggers victory) and taking over the lead in the series championship, to crashing his Panera Bread Ducati while battling for four...

Ohioan Larry Pegram has been a racer for pretty much his entire life. He's won races on two wheels and four, on dirt tracks and paved road courses, and he is back aboard a Ducati at Road America where he won on a Ducati Superbike 12 years ago. He's doing it for fun, but as Carruthers and Bice found out in this episode of Off Track, winning is still very  important to Pegram. Support the...