Based on what he's accomplished, it's hard to believe that Dennis Noyes isn't a lifelong motorcyclist. But it's true as he didn't discover the sport until he was in his 20s, with a visit to the Spanish Grand Prix in 1968. That was all it took as he was immediately hooked. Noyes started riding and that quickly turned into racing. Then came the perfect job as a motojournalist, which not only allowed him to cover the World Championship, but also gave him the opportunity to test motorcycles and write about them. Since then, Noyes has become one of the most respected journalists in the MotoGP World Championship, having both written and spoken extensively about motorcycle racing as both a print and television journalist. More recently, Noyes has also made good on a dream of writing a non-motorcycle novel. We caught up with Noyes from his home in the desert town of Borrego Springs, California, to talk about motorcycle racing and life as an American in Spain on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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ARCH co-founder Gard Hollinger doesn’t want to be referred to as an “engineer” or a “designer” out of respect for those in the field who have a formal degree. But whether he likes it not, Hollinger is a bit of both. He’s also actor Keanu Reeves’ partner in ARCH Motorcycle, and the pair, along with their race team, recently completed their first year in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship. They did so in style, with Corey Alexander racing the ARCH 2S-R to two fourth-place finishes in the season finale at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. We chatted with Hollinger prior to the weekend’s action at Mid-Ohio to talk all things ARCH, the difficulty of jumping in the deep end with a new bike and team, and much more on this week’s episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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Dunlop tire tester/part-time road racer Taylor Knapp wears many hats. This weekend he's wearing his racer hat and will do battle in the MotoAmerica Stock 1000 class on the PS² Racing Aprilia RSV4 1100 Factory as a fill-in rider for the injured Cory Ventura. Never one (or two) to miss an opportunity to chat with Knapp, we cornered the soft-spoken racing veteran to talk about racing, tire testing, and much more on this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice.

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Jeremy Taubman is one of the riders in the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Powered By Harley-Davidson. Together with Shanea Makinson, they are co-founders of the Remix Racing Project, which encompasses two of Jeremy's and Shanea's greatest passions: motorcycles and mental health. In this episode of "Off Track With Carruthers And Bice," Jeremy and Shanea talk about how the significant challenges they've each faced brought them together and set them on a path to help others cultivate brave spaces in which to overcome mental health issues and substance addiction. We think you'll be as uplifted as Paul and Sean are after learning about the Remix Racing Project.

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Real Steel Honda rider JD Beach is in his happy place, and it's not just at the racetrack. He's on a team with his brother Hayden Gillim, he's an uncle to Gillim's two kids, as well as other Gillim brother Frankie Lee's two kids, and he's continuing to do what he's always done and what he does best: racing motorcycles. For this episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice, Paul and Sean caught up with Beach as they discussed a wide variety of subjects. Check out this episode, and we think you'll find out a thing or two about The Jiggy Dog that you didn't already know.

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Sam Moses worked for Sports Illustrated for 18 years, the majority of which as its motorsports writer, covering events like the Indy 500, the Daytona 500 and the Long Beach Grand Prix back when it was a round of the Formula One World Championship. But his first love was motorcycles, and motorcycle racing, so Moses pitched those stories to Sports Illustrated and, with the help of his SI editor Bob Brown, he was able to write stories that no one else was writing. Those stories included his first motorcycle racing feature on a young, dirt-tracking Kenny Roberts in 1974. But he didn't stop there. He kept pitching those stories, bringing motorcycle racing to a new audience with more feature stories, including Roberts during his World Championship years, and the three-time 500cc World Champion's challenger, a young Freddie Spencer. We got the chance to chat with Moses from his island home of Lombok in Indonesia to chat about all that and more.

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From fighting alcoholism as a young man who actually did hit rock bottom, to building a start-up trucking company into a $360 million success story with 3000 employees, Tim Estenson has most definitely lived. Having sold Estenson Logistics in 2017, Estenson is now "retired," and focusing his efforts on Estenson Racing, which encompasses the highly successful American Flat Track (AFT) team of Dallas Daniels and Tom Drane, and the upstart MotoAmerica Talent Cup team featuring Sam Drane. Estenson also has an impressive collection of motorcycles that hovers around 300. The story of Estenson's life has been written in his biography, On Rails, and you can hear a shortened version on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice as we welcome Estenson as our guest.

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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 Unlimited By Motul Talent Cup. We caught up with Karvonen at the recent Road America round to talk about Krämer, the Talent Cup, and much more on this week’s episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. 

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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 both will be chasing win number 90 this weekend at Road America.

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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 Lake, Wisconsin, May 30-June 1. For a bit more background on Road America, we caught up with the track's Communications Director John Ewert to learn even more about the racetrack and the local community on this week's episode of Off Track With Carruthers And Bice. 

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