jody weisel

The Golden Rule of racing is to never look back, but, if no one is in front of you, the last human contact must be back there
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As the World Vet gets closer, the Glen Helen specialist start coming out of the wood work—that will be especially true when "Saturday at the Glen" moves to the National track in the next two weekends
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Glen Helen only has two seasons, "Hot" and "Windy," but last weekend brought in something that no one was prepared for. It is called "Fall" and in SoCal it doesn't normally show up until "Winter"
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"You should wear knee braces if the pain in your knees is greater than the pain of wearing knee braces. If I had to choose knee braces or being water-boarded by the CIA, I'd be gurgling right now."
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Some times a stop gap measure is the only measure that can work when you start too late
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I was a little late getting home from the races, but I'm glad I hung around to hear the end of the story
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Not every pit conversation is worth the time, but on occasion there is a gem to be found
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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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I have to admit that I was a little perturbed that Dave never lifted a hand to help me. He sat on the tailgate of the Jody mobile and told Jimmy Mac all the gruesome details of how he survived
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"You have to understand, Roger did not talk to me that much during the Trans-AMA. It was like God was talking to me. Fortunately for him, he got the Trans-AMA title; however, at the next race, his bike broke in half at Livermore."
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MXA knows a lot about the 1992 CZ 125MX, we raced it, tested it and lived with it—well, actually we tolerated it
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"There is friction in the air. Bad vibes. Gender tension of the worst kind. Luscious Louella, the love of my life, has been giving me the look."
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It's not a matter of whether you broke the rules or not, it's more about who you are, who you ride for and who you know
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And, they were also the least goggles you could wear to protect your eyes, but 1970's racers loved them anyway
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"I wanted everything to be perfect for the next day’s race — it was important to me, as it was the only race I was going to that day."
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Motocrossers are good people. They have shared interests, speak the same jargon and understand each others motivations. I have to admit that Jimmy Mac is the personification of goodness. Okay, maybe he is a little to goody-two-shoes for my…
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Mosiman and Temmerman take the gold, Tamietti ironmans the heat, Kurt actually loses a race & it's not hot if you just keep riding, it is the stopping is that wilts you
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Jody reminisces on the passing of one of the three most important men in his life—and the greatest magazine publisher the sport has ever seen
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I embrace technology with open arms—and accept that the next time I’m flying through the air, whether by YZ250 or aerobatic airplane that Jacob Bernoulli, and men like him, are guiding my hand
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Advice, especially good advice, is only valuable if you desperately need it—otherwise federal laws will suffice
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It isn't always easy being a friend and over my 35-year-friendship with Rich Eierstedt I don't think I ever fully understood him.
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By Jody Weisel It is often said that if you live long enough, you will see the passing of the greats...and so it is with Don Jones. Don died in 2008, at the age of 84. Most of the American motocross…
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Most of us young bucks, back in 1971, thought Rich was an ancient mariner
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Jody remembers his friend, mentor, father figure and motocross icon
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If I wanted to race, and I did, I had no choice but to unload what Crazy Dave kept calling “a garbage scow on wheels.”
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First of all these, Kayaba forks were 40 years ahead of their time, which means they failed four decades before the latest Kayaba air forks failed
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"Do I think every Vet rider should build a 2023 GasGas MC366F Jody Edition? No. They just shouldn’t build a bike suited to an AMA Pro if they aren’t one. Are you one?"
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Fred Phalange could artfully categorized people into closely defined niches, bordering on a caste system, based solely on the icons they displayed in the windows of their trucks
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The most prolific motorcycle designer of all-time built his own linkage fork, but never sold it until he turned it into a famous mountain bike fork
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We have updated news on the Goldsby crash and while it's not exactly good news, it sounds better than it looked. Plus, Chris Goldsby clears up a case of mistaken identity
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