jody weisel

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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Make that the short history of the Husqvarna Automatic and the men who raced them, built them and loved them
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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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We have to take advantage every time the road is open, the track isn't flooded, there's a race on the schedule and it isn't raining—because this year, more races have been canceled than held
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Designed by Anders Persson, who also designed the popular Hallman Flip-Up visor, but you couldn't actually see through it
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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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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
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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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Orange was not a popular motocross color back in 1994 (even KTMs were white back then), but MXA decided have all our helmets painted orange—and they still are 30 years later
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"I have been fortunate to have been around a slew of great champions, and you can always tell when they are winners."
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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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And so does the sun, but there is more rain forecast for the coming week—the new reality in SoCal is that the government can now turn the Drought Control Board into the Flood Control Board
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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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"Saturday at the Glen" shared the park with riders practicing for Sunday's "Road to Mammoth Qualifier." The park was jam-packed, but with the Arroyo Vet track located on a bluff above the Glen Helen National track it was an enclave of…
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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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After weeks of dodging rain, coming into the track through the local prison & getting muddy—all is well with the world
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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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