Troy Herfoss isn't a man used
to losing. The father of two
young girls on Australia's Gold
Coast is a three-time Australian
Superbike (ASBK) Champion af-
ter a 10-year career with Honda,
one-time ASBK Supersport
Champion for Suzuki, and he
enjoyed enormous success in
the heyday of AMA Supermoto
competition in the mid-2000s,
winning the title as a factory
KTM rider in 2008. Troy is also
outrageously fit and enters pro
cycling races in Australia and
beats up on those guys just for
fun. It clearly runs in the family
as his wife, Emily, is also a pro
-
fessional cyclist in Australia.
After a career of sliding doors
in which opportunities to race on
the world stage at various times
disappeared as quickly as they
appeared, 37-year-old Herfoss
dropped a bombshell at the end
of the 2023 ASBK season when,
as a newly crowned champion
for a heroic third time follow
-
ing a devastating injury in 2021
that nearly ended his career, he
announced he would be splitting
from the factory Honda team
with no real plans of what he
was going to do next.
"I announced that I was leav
-
ing Honda one week after the
championship round, which I
guess pricked a few ears up,"
Herfoss said. "I managed to
have a chat with Wayne Rainey
at MotoAmerica, and I let him
know I wanted to try and come
to America and race a Super
-
bike. Wayne mentioned that this
ride [factory Indian] was avail-
able in the Baggers.
"I actually had a phone call
from Eraldo Ferracci (Warhorse
HSBK Racing Ducati) as well. I
was driving a truck working at
the time and couldn't really hear
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