THE BEST OF JODY’S BOX: THE EFFECTS OF SELECTIVE MEMORY ON A RACER’S EGO
“I don’t remember races I’ve won. I don’t remember races I’ve lost. I don’t remember my first race. I don’t remember the last moto I was in yesterday.”
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“I don’t remember races I’ve won. I don’t remember races I’ve lost. I don’t remember my first race. I don’t remember the last moto I was in yesterday.”
If it could be done, he’d do it; if you needed it done, he was the man to ask; if it couldn’t be done, give the job to Tom White
There was room to park a Buick Roadmaster towing an Airstream trailer between the two jumps, and the landing ramp was steeper than the emergency exit on a Boeing 737
It was such a great idea that Honda and Yamaha copied it it, but it was doomed to extinction anyway
If the guy behind me is faster than me, and after all these years I don’t think there are too many people who aren’t faster than me, he is free to go on his merry way as long as he goes by on the outside
A quick primer on how to dress for success in the world of motocross, why dressing in all-black was good for Dracula, but bad for a motocross racer
Make no mistake about it, there are still a few Hodaka parts left on this Super Combat
It is understandable that motorcycle racers aspire to be famous. After all, they engage is a risky sport, dress in a brightly colored super hero costume and perform in front of audience of fanboys and manfriends
Last week it rained on Glen Helen the night before the REM race, this week it rained at Glen Helen just as practice started, but everyone had fun anyway
I assume that people who spend thousands of dollars on gaudy day-glo gear and personalized graphics, also have a passing interest in the history of the sport
How to keep a straight face when strangers tell you about their previous life as a famous racer
I don’t know where I got them. I’ve had never seen or heard of the company before, during or after I started wearing them
In politics the end comes by being caught with three showgirls in a Virginia watering hole and in motocross it comes with being three feet short on a triple
Don’t you wish that your local track held a 125-only Pro race with $6000 in purse money split between the 125 Pros, Over-30 Pros and Over-50 Pros?
The movies were funnier back then. The girls were prettier. The traffic was lighter, the bikes were better & I loved my 1974 Hodaka 125 Super Combat
An early Friday morning shower that dumped three-quarters of an inch rain on Glen Helen, left Saturday’s track perfect
An ode to the guys who silently back it down and slips quietly into the safety of the back of the pack
“I had a few moments of brilliance — one of them was almost passing my childhood hero, Mike Brown, and having him flip me off after I revved my engine behind him.”
The loudmouth, crude and base clarions of our sport are not my cup of tea—the more I see or hear of them, the deeper I retreat into my barn
When I started racing motorcycles, my father was disappointed. “I paid to send him to the university so that he could be a surfer who races foreign motorcycles in a field somewhere. What degree is that?”
85 degrees and sunny, but even hotter on the track with Sean Collier, Billy Joe Mercier, Joe Root, Luther French & Bob Rutten pulling out the stops
“If you’ve seen one Holiday Inn, you’ve seen them all. Ask me about the race track or the airport, that’s all I ever saw.”
It’s no unusual for a family to sacrifice everything in hopes of Junior becoming a motocross star. Then what?
Motocross engines are air pumps, they suck air in and blow it out, so do some people
REM takes one day off and goes racing on the second day of Twenty-Twenty-One
So, you want to be a motorcycle test rider, but not just any test rider—you want to be the guy who has ridden every bike made for the last 45 years—and lived to tell about it
Not your most unforgettable—his
You can’t relive the past, but you can visit — go find your old scrapbook now!
Make that the short history of the Husqvarna Automatic and the men who raced them, built them and loved them
What it was like to be a motocrosser back in the Good Old Days