Jodys Box

"There is a pecking order to the sponsorship gravy train. Eventually the money filters down to everyone of prominence — maybe even me!"
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It's not wrong to wish that motocross was as big as NASCAR, Formula 1 or MotoGP, but you do realized that will bring a host of unsavory beliefs, attitudes and ways of life from whatever sport they raped the year before.
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Friends are there to help you when you get confused, but often friends want to wait to see how it turns out before offering advice
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Racers find the scary moments funny and each time they tell how they endoed down Mount Saint Helen they laugh louder
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Word are like swords—they still have the potential to cut even when in the scabbard
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When they pulled off the track, grown men cringed, dogs cowered under trucks and women held their children to their breasts. They were both angry and everybody could tell it. “Get out of the way you stupid jerk,” was the only thing they…
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Lots of racer’s mechanics and friends believe that they are Svengali’s. They think that a pep talk, a few trite phrases and a pat on the back will inspire their buddy to go faster. I wanted to tell Jimmy Mac to put a cork in it.
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It's tax time again, which means it time to pull out my shoebox of receipts, write off every gate fee, bottle oil of and Band-Aid I used last year
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Life is full of surprises, so it is no surprise when the stars align and it turns out just like you knew it would
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Real winners win and they keep on winning. They may not win every race they enter, but they win a lot of them (and they are a threat to win every one)
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Flying, like motocross, is a controlled thrill ride. You make all the decisions. You chose the limits. You can make it tame or insane
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How traveling in style to the races with your bikes has changed over the decades
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“In a world filled with video commandos, paintball generals and internet lifers, risk sports are the last bastion of the soldier of fortune."
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From my experience, a motocross fight normally hands out damage equivalent to that of a pillow fight in the Delta Phi Epilson sorority house on prom night.
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Call me a curmudgeon. I won't be offended, because I've seen the growth of the sport from the very beginning (and in case you don't know, I've seen its shrinkage since the days when they sold one million dirt bikes a year)
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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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I got distracted looking for a 6mm bolt and ended up sorting all of my miscellaneous bolts into large coffee cans. Later, I reorganized my shop rags by the type, size and quality of the grease stains on them—stopping occasionally to look…
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When I first met Loverly Louella she was a score girl at the races I was racing at. Later she came to all of my races. Now, not so much
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If you live long enough, history repeats itself many times & and eventually the sport becomes numb to what shocked them the first time
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"I admired Preston Petty, but I laughed at him that day. I called him a curmudgeon. Now, all these years later I realize that wasn't an insult"
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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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Back in the good old day they didn't just let you walk across the border, instead they looked closely at the stamps in your passport and grilled you before letting you in
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Too much popularity may not ruin a sport, but it changes it...for the worse. A sport’s founding traditions, history, customs, values and beliefs go out the window as new people flood in, they dilute the purity of the goal
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Never tell your mechanic that you think the dogs on third gear are worn out before checking to see if there are any teeth on your countershaft sprocket
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Not your typical motocross video, Jody Weisel made this film as a special feature for the “Monsters Of Motocross” gala in 2008—it tugs at the heart strings of every motocross racer
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"We have met the enemy and he is us!"
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But, whether or not some high-paid factory star wins on it, probably won't make a bit of difference on your purchasing decision
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Everybody has someone that they lost before their time and, inevitably, the list grows longer as we get older. Please take a moment to remember those you've lost as Jody remembers his friend Tom
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Team managers and mechanics are tough. They have seen it all and don’t suffer fools easily. When someone supports your racing career with everything they’ve got, they can be your toughest critics
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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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