MotoAmerica Off Track with Carruthers and Bice

Motorcycle companies aren’t normally owned by engineers, but maybe they should be. Joe Karvonen is the owner of Krämer Motorcycles U.S.A. and he’s an engineer who learned his trade at the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute. He’s also a club racer and a track-day rider. A perfect fit for a company that manufactures track-day and race bikes, including the purpose-built Krämer APX-350 MA that is being raced in MotoAmerica’s new Parts Unli...

Five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier and four-time champion Josh Hayes are tied at the top of the all-time AMA road race win list with 89 wins apiece. That’s a combined total of 178 career wins between the two former rivals and fast friends. We wrangled both of them to join us on this week's episode of the Off Track With Carruthers and Bice podcast to talk about the past, the present, and the future, as bo...

It's hard to argue against Road America being one of the best racing facilities in the world. The track itself is long, it's fast, and it always produces close races. As for the rest of it... well, you'd have to look long and hard to find even a blade of grass that's out of place. A favorite of MotoAmerica's racers, teams and fans, the series is excited to be heading to the picturesque circuit in Elkhart La...

It would be difficult to find a more suited MotoAmerica Chief Medical Officer than Dr. Carl Price. Who better to assist an injured motorcycle racer than a doctor who has been riding and racing motorcycles since his childhood? We got the chance to chat with the personable Dr. Price on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice to talk about the serious side of our sport - injuries and how to treat them. This week...

Laid-back South African Dominic Doyle, who now calls Columbus, Indiana, home, is a bonafide championship contender in the 2025 MotoAmerica SC-Project Twins Cup Championship. With two rounds and four races in the bank, Doyle is third in the championship with three podiums out of the four races. Unfortunately, mechanical issues kept him from scoring points in race one at Barber Motorsports Park or he'd be even closer to the fron...

Mallory Dobbs is living the dream. Despite getting a late start to motorcycling and ultimately motorcycle racing at the age of 22, Dobbs is most definitely making up for lost time. In 2023, Dobbs raced in both MotoAmerica Supersport and the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship. And the next thing you know, she's off racing in Europe in the new FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship. We caught up with the wo...

Peter Clifford is the director of rider development and media for the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, or, as he refers to it, the "Headmaster." Prior to being the man in charge of the Rookies Cup program, Clifford was a motojournalist who covered MotoGP before it was called MotoGP. He was also the team manager for Bob MacLean's World Championship Motorsports (WCM)  team that fielded such racers as Simon Crafar and John ...

The statement "needs no introduction" is somewhat overused. But in the case of this week's guest on Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, it's accurate. Three-time AMA Grand National Champion and three-time 500cc GP World Champion Kenny Roberts truly needs no introduction. We were fortunate enough to catch up with Roberts at Circuit of The Americas with the legend in Texas for MotoGP and, more importantly, the roa...

In a class that's sure to be full of surprises in its debut season, Chase Black threw the first Parts Unlimited Talent Cup By Motul curveball when he came out on top of the timesheets in the two-day Dunlop preseason test at Motorsport Ranch in Cresson, Texas, this week. Black and his Chase Black Racing Krämer APX-350 MA led the way on both days and was the only rider to crack the 1:21 barrier. We caught up with the 18-year-old...

Jake Lewis's 2024 MotoAmerica season was what you could call sneaky good. Until you look at the results, you probably don't know that Lewis ended the season ranked fourth in Supersport (with four podiums and a win), third in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship (with a win), and seventh in the Mission King Of The Baggers title chase. And Lewis has kept that momentum going with an exhilarating victory in the se...

Richie Escalante is hoping everything falls into place for this year's Daytona 200 after a few years of bad luck for the Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki rider. We caught up with the popular Escalante on the eve of the 83rd running of the Daytona 200 at Daytona International Speedway to talk about the 200, the upcoming MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, and more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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Loris Baz was a MotoAmerica Superbike winner in 2024 with the Frenchman riding his Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati Panigale V4 R to victory in the final race of the season at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Fast forward a few months and Baz is preparing to do something completely different in 2025. Beginning at Daytona in a few weeks time, Baz will be competing in the Mission King Of The Baggers as a member of the three-rider Indian Motor...

It's two for the price of one week with Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as they welcome both Orange Cat Racing's Jayson Uribe and Andrew Lee to the podcast on the lead up to this coming weekend's official MotoAmerica/Dunlop test at the Podium Club in Arizona. The pair talk about the seasons past, the season ahead, and how they believe the two-pronged championship attack ends up with a title for the Chicago-based O...

Matthew Chapin earned the 2024 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Championship by 81 points after going on a run that included six wins in the final eight races of the season. Chapin was fast, consistent and he always seemed to put himself in the right place. Now, heading into the 2025 season, Chapin has again put himself in the right spot at the right time as he will move up to the SC-Project Twins Cup on a RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Su...

Jayson Uribe finished second in last year's MotoAmerica Stock 1000 Championship, and, for many, that was a surprise. Uribe started the season with a sixth, a fifth and a fourth in the first three races of the season. In race four, Uribe won his first race of the series when his title rival Hayden Gillim crashed out of race two at Brainerd International Raceway. From there Uribe never looked back, earning a second win and never...

Since his crash at Barber Motorsports Park in 2023, Cory Ventura has been to hell and back with leg injuries that have required five surgeries. But guess what? Ventura is fit, healthy and ready to get back on the horse that threw him. We chatted with Ventura about his recovery, his hopes of a 2025 MotoAmerica comeback, his quest to get his pilot's license, and much more on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers ...