Joe interviews Rodney Smith (and a special guest at the very end).
Joe interviews Curtis Leaverton, owner of Vintco and so much more.
Joe interviews Steve Wise. Steve had a racing career unlike any other racer in the history of the American Motorcycle Association. The last few years of his racing career are what set him apart from every other rider who has ever raced an AMA professional sanctioned event.
Part 2 of 2, Joe interviews Tony "D", an American former professional motocross racer. Tony competed in the AMA Motocross Championships from 1973 to 1981. A three-time AMA 250cc motocross national champion, DiStefano was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999.
Part 1 of 2, Joe interviews Tony "D", an American former professional motocross racer. Tony competed in the AMA Motocross Championships from 1973 to 1981. A three-time AMA 250cc motocross national champion, DiStefano was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999.
Joe interviews Mary McGee, an American motorsport racing pioneer. She was the first woman to compete in motorcycle road racing and motocross events in the United States. Starting out as a sports car racer, she competed in motorcycle road racing and motocross from 1960 to 1976, then began competition again in 2000 in vintage motocross events. In 2013, McGee was named an FIM Legend for her pioneering motorcycle racing career. She was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2018.
Joe interviews his northeast pal Ken Kaplan, owner of the New England Motorcycle Museum.
Joe interviews Sue "Flying" Fish, an American former motocross racer and stunt actor in the U.S. film industry.
Fish was a pioneering figure in American motorcycling, winning the 1976 and 1977 Women's National Motocross Championship. After a motocross injury, she took up downhill mountain biking, and won a silver medal at the 1994 UCI Downhill World Championships in Vail, Colorado. Fish was Linda Hamilton's stunt double in The Terminator.
Fish was inducted to the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2012 and, in 2013 she was named an FIM Legend for her pioneering motocross racing career. Semi-retired since 2009, she works as a personal trainer.
Joe interviews Chuck Sun, an American former professional motocross racer. He competed in the AMA Motocross Championships from 1976 to 1988. In 1980, Sun won the AMA 500cc motocross national championship. He is the only Asian American to have won a national championship in American professional motorcycle racing. In 2003, Sun was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame.
Joe interview Barry Higgins
Joe's interview with Mike Chamberlain, one of the early pioneers in the So Cal motocross scene. He opened Mike’s Racing Center at age 19, became the #1 Maico dealer in the country and sponsored some of the fastest Maico riders in the US, like Tim Hart and Jim West. Mike was also a trendsetter when he built the first and only titanium Maico, and was one of the first to experiment with long-travel suspension. Mike was also a fast racer, ranked #9 in District 37.
Joe interviews Scot Harden, a man who has enjoyed a nearly 40-year career as one of the world's top off-road motorcycle racing competitors compiling a resume that few can match. From 1971 until his final professional race in 2007 at the age of 51, Harden’s career is noted for the wide range of off road disciplines that he mastered. He is also noted for an impressive executive management career within the motorcycle industry and is well known as a brand builder, visionary, team manager, sales and product planner.
Joe interviews Danny LaPorte, an American former professional motocross racer. LaPorte was one of the top motocross racers in the 1970s and 1980s and, was the first American to win a 250cc motocross world championship.
Joe racks up the long distance charges with a call to Czechoslovakia to interview Jaroslav Falta. A former professional motocross racer, Falta competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1971 to 1982. As a member of the CZ factory racing team, Falta was one of the top motocross racers of the early 1970s in the F.I.M. 250cc Motocross World Championship.
Joe sits down with Brad Lackey who is an American former professional motocross racer. He competed in the AMA Motocross Championships from 1970 to 1972 and, in the Motocross World Championships from 1973 to 1982. Lackey was notable for becoming the first and only American to win the 500cc motocross world championship in 1982. Nicknamed "Bad Brad", Lackey was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999 and, in 2013 he was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.
Joe interviews David Bailey who was one of the leading American motocross and supercross racers during the 1980s. During his eight-year professional motocross career, Bailey won 30 AMA national race victories and won three motocross national championships. His motorcycle racing career was cut short after a practice crash left him paralyzed just before the start of the 1987 season. After his injury, Bailey began a new career as an expert motocross television commentator.
