The Steve Matthes Show Classics Volume 3: Recent Episodes
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Volume 3 of the Steve Matthes Show podcast. This archive spans 2013 thru 2014. There's MX gold in here folks.
Former SX champion Mike Bell joins the podcast to talk about his career that you might not realize was very good when he was healthy.
Matthes, Weege and JT hash out all the question marks of the coming season. Its nearly GO time!
Matthes is stoked- he gets to interview TSN color commentator and former NHL'er Ray Ferraro about his Leafs, NHL in Vegas, Rays similarities to Steve in the media business and much more. Matthes would appreciate if you listened by the way.
We rounded up the troops for this industry-shaking situation to give our thoughts on it.
Hey it's the off-season so Matthes calls up his childhood buddy Curt and they reminisce growing up as dirt bike buddies in Manitoba.
Ryan Gauld and Ryan Lockhart join Matthes to talk about the just completed Canadian AX series as well as touch on some of the new CMRC rules.
DC joins Matthes for a bench race session about 40 years of SX, RV to GP's, the outdoor series, JMB and more.
A bench race podcast w a couple of Jason's and Matthes trying to figure out the latest from the moto scene.
Clark Jones started Noleen Yamaha which was the place to use for your Yamaha mods in the 90's..then he had a race team that almost won it all in SX. Now he's back working under Noleen name and here's his story.
Matthes sits down with one of the best Euro journo's Adam Wheeler of On Track, Off Road to discuss RV to the GP's, Herlings, the GP's, Bercy vs Lille and much more.
With RV headed over to Europe, Matthes thought he would call a guy that knows a little something about being American and racing the GP's. Former 500 World Champion Brad Lackey talks about his interesting life and career in this pod.
Jimmy Button, Anthony Paggio and Alex Mcelyea join Matthes to talk about the formation of the PJ1 Yamaha team in 1996 and the year that was.
Team Two Two's suspension man talks about his career that spans from Sweden to the GP's to America and working for riders like Chad Reed and James Stewart.
With the Dubya World Vets coming up this weekend at Glen Helen, Matthes calls up the all time winner at that race to talk about that and what else, Yamaha's with former factory rider Doug Dubach
Short little podcast about the upcoming Nitro Circus tour and his experience at the Red Bull Straight Rhythm.
Wrapping up action from the race weekend, covering all the scoops, with the usual cast of characters.
Justin Brayton comes on to discuss his progress over the past few years and how he found his way to the BTO Sports KTM team for 2015.
Dean Baker, JGR motor-guy, former HOT and YOT motor guy and long time mechanic fills us in on his travels and occupations throughout his life in moto.
Wrapping up action from the race weekend, covering all the scoops, with the usual cast of characters.
Dunlop tires Brian Fleck has been going to the races for a long time and in this podcast he talks about his background and where the tire-tech guy is at now.
All around good guy, "The Junkyard Dog" joins us to discuss his racing years, life since and everything else in this must-listen episode.
Wrapping up action from the race weekend, covering all the scoops, with the usual cast of characters.
Wrapping up action from the race weekend, covering all the scoops, with the usual cast of characters.
Matthes gets the 03-05 factory Yamaha big dogs together here to reminisce about their time together. Big laughs, great stories.
Post-race interviews with Adam Enticknap, Josh Hansen and Top Jimmy brought to you by Pro Circuit.
Racer X senior contributor Eric Johnson joins Matthes for some bench racing about a few topics.
Two of the sports greatest ever get on the line for a tandem review of their careers in opposition of one another. It's like cold-fusion or the splitting of the atom.
Team Two Two's Lars Lindstrom joins us to discuss his years at Factory Honda with MC, working with Chad and his crew now and some great stories.
Matthes plays an agent trying to get deals at Fly Racing for a couple of his clients. It didn't go so well...
Erik talks about his career from start to present including that legendary launch out of the pit at Gatorback. Great stories here.
Premier moto-photographer Simon Cudby joins us for a quick study of himself and the art of shooting moto.
Matthes, Weege and JT hit on the hot button issues in moto during the off-week. The JS7 WADA ruling, transgender racing issue and the latest Tony Alessi meltdown are all covered.
Race Tech suspension head of R and D Rob Brown comes on to talk shop about how he got started at Race Tech, working with some of the top privateers in the support and common suspension complaints and issues.
Matthes, Weege and JT hash out all the question marks of the coming season. Its nearly GO time!
It's that time, eh. Matthes, the Newf and Ryan Gauld bring it. The northern series is about to kick off with plenty of American racers bringing noticeable intrigue in the 450 class.
Matthes, Weege and JT hash out all the question marks of the coming season. Its nearly GO time!
We had an off-week so Matthes and Ping got together to answer your moto-quandary's in this podcast.
Ryno comes on to discuss his career, working with riders now and all that makes up the extremity that is Ryan Hughes.
Ben sheds light on his career in Europe, winning in America, getting hurt and what he's doing now.
Factory Phil sheds light on his amateur career, making a living in 90's moto and how he saw the legends he called friends, rise to greatness.
Skip Norfolk is perhaps one of the winningest mechanics of all time and in this pod, Matthes talks to him about his career, working for MC, his time at Kawasaki and much more.
With Supercross celebrating it's 40th year, Matthes called up Jeff Ward and Ron Lechien to talk about A2, the evolution of SX and the 4 years they spent as teammates at Factory Kawasaki.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Albrecht, Anderson, Durham, Reed, Short and Weimer.
Matthes, Weege and JT hash out all the question marks of the coming season. Its nearly GO time!
Matthes, Weege, JT and even Ping hash out all the question marks of the coming season. Its nearly GO time!
Former top Grand Prix rider Paul Malin had settled nicely into his post racing life as the voice of the GP's. Before that tho, we talk about his fantastic career and of course, the 94 MXDN.
It's another legendary factory wrench sit-down. Filling in the blanks, elaborating and the inside stories with the man who spun wrenches for the likes of MXKIED, Damon Huffman, Bradshaw and more.
Racer X's Jason and Weigandt and Matthes sit down to talk about the Endurocross, Kurt Caselli and then get into Weege's path to the big time
DMXS's Izer, Weege and Matthes bench race and talk about a bunch of things including whether or not the New Jersey SX will work.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Barcia, Canard, Hahn, Short and Webb.
Jim Hale brought AXO and Mechanix Wear to prominence in America and in this podcast, he tells the story from the beginning.
Steve and his brother Jason sit down and reminisce about the old times, vintage bikes and his 1989 SX trip.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Stewart, Albertson, Chisholm, Musquin, Payton, Roczen and Tomac
Matthes checks in with recently retired Coppins to discuss his new life after racing and the current state of moto.
One of the '90's most enigmatic racers, Jeff "Chicken" Matiasevich, joins Matthes for a career retrospective which is long overdue and well worth the wait. Swizzle happy.
DBO360 comes in studio for a podcast covering his career, life today and what's going on.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Tomac, Barcia, Cairolli, DeDycker, Roczen, Nicoletti and Martin, Vanhorebeek, Searle and Ferris.
Matthes and Watson sit down at the Hard Rock and have a conversation about the sport and Watsons career. Yelling ensues.
Former Factory Yamaha rider survived Matthes tuning (sort of) to talk about his long career as a pro.
Matthes and the two Jason's tackle your submitted questions to provide the perfect answers. Here's part two.
Matthes and the two Jason's tackle your submitted questions to provide the perfect answers. Here's part one.
Rich Taylor's first podcast became an instant classic with all his great stories of bike development and testing. This part 2 is everything you'd expect it to be.
Matthes, Gauldy and the NewF all get together to discuss the 2013 Canadian Nationals and salute those hanging the boots up.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Barcia, Brayton, Canard, Payton, Rattray, Seely, Tomac and Weimer.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Cianciarulo, Alex Martin, Barcia, Bogle, Brayton, Durham, Goerke, Osborne and Weimer.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Canard, Kiniry, Metcalfe, Nicoletti, Osborne, Tomac and Webb.
Matthes and Weege cover the bulletpoints and inside debates stemming from Loretta's and X-Games 2013.
Matthes gets all the details on Danny Laporte's career right here in this career retrospective.
With Ryan Villopoto being at the top of his game, for a time now, it's only fitting that Matthes get his ace-wrench on the line for an inside-scoop tell-all.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Weimer, Villopoto, Short, Roczen, Rattray, Nicoletti, Larocco, Lamay, Hahn, Anderson and Albrecht.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Cianciarulo, Nicoletti, Durham, Weimer, Hahn, Bogle, Osborne, Tomac and PC Guys.
In a long overdue podcast, Canada's second best MX-port ever (this is debated in the show), JSR comes on the show to hit on all of his career.
Matthes goes tandem for a look back at two impressive, educational and inspiring careers.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Alessi, Brayton, Hahn, Millsaps, Musquin, Nicoletti, Reed, Short, Sipes, Tomac and Weimer.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Cianciarulo, Dowd, Durham, Martin, Metcalfe, Patterson, Payton, Seely, Short, Tomac and Wey.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Payton, Alessi, Canard, Cianciarulo, Durham, Keefe, Seely and Short.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Metcalfe, Benoit, JSR, Kiniry, Maier, Medaglia and Politelli.
Andy Bell of Nitro Circus fame talks about what he's up to since leaving the circus and his route thru the industry.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Canard, DeCoster, Durham, Lamay, Musquin, Nicoletti, Osborne, Payton, Rattray, Tomac, Webb, Weimer and Wey.
Former title-winning factory Kawasaki mechanic Tom Morgan joins Matthes to talk about his thriving motor business, working for Wardy, works bikes and much, much more.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Reed, Alessi, Barcia, Byrne, Musquin, Nicoletti, Noren, Osborne, Roczen, Stewart, Strijbos and Wharton.
Matthes get's GP serious with On Track Off Road's Adam Wheeler as they touch on the changes with the GP's and the season so far.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Payton, Alessi, Osborne, Roczen, Seely, Sipes, Strijbos, Tomac and Villopoto.
It's that time, eh. Matthes, the Newf and Ryan Gauld bring it. The northern series is about to kick off with Brett Metcalfe bringing noticeable intrigue in the 450 class.
Round one of the 2013 MX series is in the books and though some things went as expected, there were of course surprises too.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Brayton, Canada, DeCoster, Gowland, Stewart, Nicoletti, Osborne, Preston, Short, Tomac, Weimer and Wey.
It's amazing they even survived the Circle Bar following the final round of the series, yet they went a step further and knocked out the Vegas review without a wink of sleep.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Anderson, Keefe, Kiniry, Lamay, Millsaps, Payton and Short.
Matthes, JT$ and cameos by Fro and Ralph hit on the poignant subjects prior to the gate drops.
The northwest brought the typical conditions which are sure to make for interesting results. Here's your review.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Payton, Alessi, Barcia, Brayton, Canada, Millsaps, Nicoletti, Osborne and Villopoto.
The return to Minneapolis brought the most exciting 450 finish of the series. Listen in as the RX trio hit the bullet-points.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Reed, Alessi, Bowers, Blose and DeCoster.
Houston came and went, RV extends his points lead while Wil Hahn does so as well with a second place finish.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Barcia, Brayton, Canard, DeCoster, Faith, Hahn, Kiniry, Nicoletti, Short and Weimer.
Top Jimmy joins Weege and Matthes following the Toronto race which victimized his scaphoid. They don't call him Top Jimmy for nothin.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Weimer, Faith, Friese, Goerke, Millsaps, Nicoletti, Short and Smith.
JT, Weege and Matthes wrap-up a pretty crazy 250SX class race and a three-race win streak for the Villopoto train.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Hahn, Short, Everts and Dungey.
Shawn Maffenbeier is taking a step down to the MX2 class in Canada on a two-stroke Yamaha. He talks about that choice and much more in this Canadian Moto podcast.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Barcia, DeCoster, Lamay, Larocco, Musquin, Roczen, Tomac, Weimer and Villopoto.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Alessi, Canard, Hahn, Millsaps, Reed and Wilson.
Rick Too Hip Johnson speaks all about his long career, almost going to Kawasaki in '86, his crash, his comeback and much, much more. Thanks to Lou Lopez for making this happen.
The Hurricane is back talking about the races today, the Racer X Top 30 SX riders list and as usual a bunch of other stuff. Hannah's always a good listen no matter what.
Keith Bowen had an eventful career in pro motocross from being one of the nations top amateur racers to a factory Yamaha national winning rider. From there there were some missteps but a comeback to racing put a nice bow on his career.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Albertson, Brayton, Hahn, Kiniry, Musquin, Payton, Short, Stewart and Tomac.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Bell, Canard, Hahn, Peters, Reed, Stewart, Wilson and Windham.
The crew puts their brains together to see what's what as the East 250 Series is set to kickoff.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Payton, Lemoine, Goerke, Brayton, Kiniry and Short.
Top Jimmy joins the three Canadians to talk Valli Yamaha, Newf retiring and after he hangs up it gets deep into Canadian Moto.
It's the review you've been waiting for. Three Anaheim stops this year. Three reviews. Let's go.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Reed, Albertson, Barcia, Brayton, Canard, Politelli, Stanton, Tickle and Tomac.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Albertson, Baker, Payton, Short and Tickle.
Weege, Matthes and JT$ hash out all that happened at the third round and yup, Windham's retirement.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Villopoto, Albrecht, Reed, Weimer, Lemoine, Roczen, Decoster, Canard, Canada and Blose.
Gary Semics had a great career as a racer and after that was over, evolved into a great mx teacher.
Mechanix Wear Canada, Rick Sheren, has done it all in Moto (even sponsored the Rollerball) and we cover it all right here.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Payton, Alessi, Canada, Canard, Politelli, Rattray, Villopoto and Wey.
Weege, Matthes and the truly new media darling, JT Money hit on Anaheim 1 from all sides.
Post-race interviews brought to you by Pro Circuit with Payton, Tomac, Kiniry, Goerke, Alessi, Windham and Albrecht.