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I used to lap up Jody Weisels writing in MXA. I loved the adventures he and Crazy Dave got up to and really enjoyed his different take on test bikes. He was up there with Hunky in my eyes.I remember reading many years ago in ADB from A well known collumnist & MXer who quoted after racing Jody said that he was A "Squid"...Made me laugh...
In 1986 I went to one of the very first Dick Mann Vintage Rally meetings at Sandhill Ranch, California. At that meeting the then editor of Dirt Bike, Tim Tolson and Jody were racing vintage so I excitedly watched them thinking that them being there was a plus for the new sport of vintage motocross. The first disappointment was when I introduced myself to Jody, he didn't even make eye contact, offered up a limp handshake and had turned his back on me and was walking away before I could even get a word out. That's cool, he's busy bloke I convinced myself...I'll catch up later when he's not so busy.
Jody was riding a dunger Monty VR250 and Tolson was aboard a Yamaha MX360 that had been cocked up with leopard skin seat and fluro paint. Both blokes raced really hard, they weren't just desk jockeys, they were definite front runners but the down side is that to everyone watching they seemed to be deliberately trying to trash the bikes, revving therm past their limits, banging into each other or their other media mates and generally making a nuisance of themselves on track. After the meet I tried again to have a talk with Jody but he was involved in a deep and meaningful slag session with Tolson so I didn't bother, I just stood back and listened to them take the piss at anything and everything to do with the event.
Any thoughts of vintage racing getting a positive press coverage was wiped from my mind when I saw Jody and Tolson leaving without the bikes they'd ridden. They just left 'em in the pits and drove off. They'd treated the event as a joke, almost like a demolition derby. Dick Mann and the vintage friends I'd got to know that day were disappointed and pissed off. Even Billy Grossi thought they had shown disrespect for Dick Mann and the idea behind the sport. The editorials that came out in the following issues of their respective mags both described vintage MX at some sort of sideshow, inhabited by fat old farts living in the past.
Sadly, my Jody bubble burst that day and I've never really read his stuff since....Tolson too.
Huuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...maybe time to relax with a round or two of gulf instead...FOUR!!!!!
Totally off subject, who made that pipe? Looks awesome! Mite get one made for my pre '90...
