Jodys Box

Racing motorcycles demands determination, skill and a willingness to hang it out, but it requires just as much in the Novice class as it does in the Pro class. It’s not the speed—it’s the degree of difficulty—personal or external, that…
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When people find out I’m a motocross racer, they always ask me the same questions
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How the single most famous obstacle in motocross history happened & it changed American motocross by happenstance
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When you lend out as many tie-downs and tools as I have, you know that as soon as they leave your hand, there is a signpost up ahead that reads "the next stop is the Twilight Zone"
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I hate it when people ask me to ride their bike, especially when their bike screams “trust fund baby."
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"Since I am not bound by any contracts, I can use whatever I want—afterall, no one is actually emulating my person tastes or riding style."
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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
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I remember that bike vividly; the transmission looked like a watermelon and the air-cooled cylinder was shaped like a pine cone. Gary Jones had one just like it and, even today, we revel in telling stories about how bad it was.
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"I still miss the clickety-clack of my trusty old Smith Corona. I can'r say the same thing about word prcessors or computers."
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"But, as they pulled him from the twisted wreck, with his dying breath, they heard him say, ‘Tell Laura I love her.’"
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Modern motocross gloves are no more protective than those crocheted driving gloves that tweedy British-twits use when driving their Jags
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If you ever go to Europe to race, buy some picture postcards of the countryside—just in chase the Spanish Inquistion breaks out when you get home.
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Not every racing story shared in the pits has anything to do with actual racing
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If I wanted to win; I’d train, practice the things I’m bad at, take steroids, eat right and cheat.
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Surely you understand my desire to have an AP102. It’s all-new, all-big, all-meat, all-enduring and all-powerful. It is also all-rare. It is a tire that I like very much when I do well with it.
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"I started racing back in 1968 when bikes were simple, a little agricultural and could be worked on with tools as simple as a nut cracker and a butter knife."
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"I admire anyone who can focus all of his powers on eating right, exercising and applying his energies in a positive direction. As for myself, I’m a backslider."
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"When I do it right, which isn’t very often, the race is a blur. I don’t mean a blur as in obscured by speed (because given my current speed that would be silly), but blurred by the fog of war
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Problem solving is a matter for marching through a list of all the possible causes for the given malady
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They often say that motocross is 10% machine and 90% rider, but when it comes to parking in the pits it's 99% getting there early
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"I won’t be coming back to this track until enough guys are transported to "Our Sister of Perpetual Payment Hospital" for missing the big double that the promoter mows it down.
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Motocross is a sport where everybody ranks, rates and judges everyone else by the bikes they ride, clothes they wear, who paints their helmet and who has the tallest truck.
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You know as well as I do that if Charles Manson had been fast on a motocross bike, there would have been a race team somewhere posting bond for him
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When you break something, it is a visible injury (thanks to an X-ray), and it is fixable. Every crash that causes a scar is just an irritating delay in getting back to racing
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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 costumes and perform in front of audience of fanboys and manfriends
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Sports are full of stories about parents who gave up everything to make their kids successful. But, they did it for the kid, and when he becomes a doctor, lawyer or motorcycle racer, they don’t get a share of the profits
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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!
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Do you feel qualified to pontificate on the meaning of life? Motocross life?
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Not your most unforgettable—his
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I was on to something much grander—earning a living no matter how well I did. As a test rider I got paid—win or lose.
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