Jodys Box

"My first career was dirt tracker, not because I wanted to do it, but because it was all there was in the days before motocross."
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There is romance and history in old things and that new-fangled wonder bike with all of its rarely used electronic aids just doesn't tug at your heart strings
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The impression that fast guys are three gears short of a six-speed is all an act. Racers are at least as smart as doctors.
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For a kid who loved uniforms, I couldn’t have picked a better sport than motocross. It’s got everything, but I am mystified by the fashion choices of the men around me.
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Fame is fleeting, who you are after it fades is more important than who you were on the top step of the podium
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You gotta read this, it's the dark version of motocross bike history
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Truth is hard to come by in the sports world, here are some of things I learned about the inner workings of the sport from my 50 years in the pits
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Take this opportunity to laugh at your Vet racer friends because the lord knows they are laughing at you
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It’s not possible to get everybody in the world to like you (or Jett, Eli, Kenny or Chase); however, pro motocrossers stubbornly refuse to accept that fact. It plays havoc on their fragile egos to discover that there are are hosts of people…
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I’ll never let anyone convince me to jump a double just because someone as fast as I am did. I want someone much slower than I am to jump it before I’ll even think about it
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Jody remembers his friend, mentor, father figure and motocross icon
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“They must have shrunk in the dryer,” I said when Jimmy Mac eyeballed me holding my breath like a deep sea diver as I tugged on the zipper.
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The job of a color commentator on TV is to talk—not tell the truth. Worst of all, there is no fine print at the bottom of the screen giving a disclaimer about what the announcer is saying
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It's no unusual for a family to sacrifice everything in hopes of Junior becoming a motocross star. Then what?
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With the 41st Annual World Vet Motocross Championship a month away, Jody looks back on the race he always wanted to win, "but only came close 37 years ago."
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BY JODY WEISEL I’m have always been interested in how things work. As a kid I liked to take things apart and inspect their internals. I tried to grasp how each part related to the next. It should be noted that as good as I was at…
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"How did I come by my distrust of technological improvements? That’s easy. I race motorcycles. That fact alone makes me distrust the “next new thing.”
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To my way of thinking, there was no reason for her to make me go to the doctor for an injury that hadn’t turned purple yet
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"I truly believe that strategy is at least as important as speed."
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Lots of famous guys were helpful in my career (mostly by making me realize that I’d make more money as test rider than as a professional privateer).
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And that's the truth, I'm not talking about lap times, I'm talking about reality versus dreams when you live the dream you can't help but look back and see if its what you thought it would be
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"I’m required by the GAO to inform you that just because you have been called down to the Federal Building doesn’t mean that you have done anything wrong. We just want to ask you a few questions to confirm your guilt."
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“Sorry. I don’t have any tattoos. I don't do interviews. I haven’t ripped my shirt off since that day in the Boy Scouts when it caught fire. I don’t like swearing and I don’t drink that swill.”
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I never said, "I want to make the world a better place." Conversely, I never wanted to make it a worse place—beyond taking up valuable space in the Bass Pro Shop parking lot.
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Coolness comes from the perception of others. It doesn’t come from the clothes we wear, sunglasses on our head or the disdain we express about others. Nothing is sadder than someone trying to be cool.
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And have you vowed to keep wearing the same pair until you get lucky and actually win a race?
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“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
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As with most young guns, I wanted out of the little Texas berg I lived in. SoCal represented a shot at the golden ring of motocross stardom.
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I don’t watch made-in-Hollywood motocross movies. We are always made to look like hillbillies, Hell’s Angels or psychopaths.
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It is important that motocross make a serious effort to fight the insidious cultural influences, organizations and policies that, if left unchecked, could change the way we do things. Which, by the way, is wrong.
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