Expertise and innovation are the watchwords of motocross, but its best to remember that experts steered the Titanic, but amateurs crewed the lifeboats. Read More...
"I’m not nostalgic about the bikes I’m not riding, I’m excited about the possibilities of racing this one, and, most important, I get paid, win or lose." Read More...
I’ve known Stumpy Phalange my whole life, but only because he was the brother of my racing buddy Fred Phalange and it goes without saying that he was also a couple inches shorter. Read More...
How great was it to be a motocrosser back in the Good Old Days? Incredible! The only downside is that if you raced in 1968, you are in your 70s now Read More...
The only problem? My father wasn’t in the German Luftwaffe, he was in the U.S. Army Air Corp, flying a B-17 out of Ridgewell, England, with the Eighth Air Force. Read More...
To my way of thinking, there was no reason for Louella to worry, baby me or to make me go to the doctor for an injury that hadn't turned blue yet. Read More...
The seven most painful words in motocross are, "How many people were in your class?" It is possible that Eli Tomac doesn’t hear these words after winning a race, but every local racer does Read More...
"If your rider had pulled two holeshots, I’d assume your rider’s talent, preparation and technique were the reasons, not that he was running a bored-out cylinder." Read More...
I was a little kid the first time I saw it, maybe six years old, but I remember that Sunbeam S7 being the most majestic thing I had ever seen. I vowed to give up Tinker Toys on the spot! Read More...
That idiot friend of mine Jimmy Mac chopped me off in the first turn and knocked me down. By the time I got going, I could only struggle to an inglorious — but valiant — 17th place. Read More...
She was despondent that instead of becoming a doctor, lawyer or Indian chief—I became “her son, the motorcycle racer.” It must have been tough when the subject turned to the kids over the mahjong table. Read More...
Astronomers predicted that a 1100-foot wide chunk of interplanetary debris had a good chance of impacting smack dab in the middle of one of the 38,000 McDonald's on the planet Read More...
15 cool rules that would make the sport bigger than NASCAR and provide the fans with a thrill a minute—not that the Dunlop Tire Roll wasn't exciting Read More...
If the motorcycle industry didn't built what he wanted, he built it himself — and he sold thousands of them to riders who wanted the same thing Read More...
Today's racers give little thought to anything that came before iPhones, Instagram, SnapChat and earrings. No shame. No sweat. No worries. They know what they know—and nothing more Read More...
Everyone needs a road map to get where they are going, but are we talking Rand McNalley, Thomas Guides, Google Earth or the good old "Turn left at the red mailbox?" Read More...