Rant 8.1.11
Rant 8/1/11 Whenever a tragedy strikes the internet experts always have to take a stand, “something has to be done, someone is guilty, someone is wrong, the sport is worse today, racing is dangerous...
View ArticleTool?
Rant 9/21 Douche bag, tool, asshat. All of these have been used to describe me at one time or another. It always depends on which end of the horse your riding, as to whether or not I meet the...
View ArticleWhere’s the remote?
Rant 11/6/11 I was on my way home from the MTA Vet Worlds at Glen Helen Saturday afternoon thinking to myself, “I suck so bad that I should just sell my new Yamaha and buy a street bike”. I went to...
View ArticleLike the shirt said “keep supercross indoors”.
Rant, 11/30/11 Is motocross racing doomed? Motocross defined in the dictionary is a closed course motorcycle competition held over very rough natural terrain, including mud, rocks, sand and hills....
View ArticleI’ve been busy
Rant 2/1/12 For someone who’s been unemployed for 3 years I’ve been busy. I’ve written at least 3 other rants, but after rereading them over and over again I decided they were better left in the...
View ArticleChildren
Rant 2/8/12 The REM Racer of the Year for 2011 was announced at our last race Feb 4th. It was a young man whose pedigree is that of a racing family. Justin Jones, son of Gary Jones the first real...
View ArticleMy father
4/8/12 My father died today, I really don’t know how I should feel. To say we weren’t close would be too easy, and not really true. The past 2 decades we rarely spoke more than once or twice a...
View ArticleSocial media
Somewhere between worrying about how to pay my mortgage, gas bills, insurance, electricity and cell phone bill I worried about whether or not the world’s fastest motocross racer was going to fulfill...
View ArticleJR.
When I read of Junior Seau’s death by apparent suicide I was deeply saddened. I am not going to say that Junior Seau and I were friends, or even acquaintances. His clothing company that he was...
View ArticleWFO?
WFO; I am amazed at how few people really know what that stands for. In the Urban Dictionary it’s “wide fricken open” or “wide f@#$ing open”. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it is nowhere...
View ArticleCrappy numbers
Once at a Carlsbad Raceway Golden State race I was witness to something I had never seen before, it was so vile that I hope I never see it again as long as I live. A crap volcano. The porta potties...
View ArticleWinners, losers, competition
Winning, a phrase made infamous by an infamous celebrity last year. Losing, a phrase made famous by everyone who never tried. Losing a race isn’t losing, never trying something, and then regretting...
View ArticleThe world according to REM
The World according to REM 1986, I was sitting in the pits at Barona Oaks talking with the kid parked next to me. His name was Vince Warren. He was a pro from Washington who had moved to So Cal to...
View ArticleHeat
Heat, sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad. On a frigid day a little heat comes in useful. After 10 or so days of miserably hot and humid weather for SoCal it is not fun times. I know if you...
View ArticleRest in peace #44
I had to hold a lot of hands today. I had to hug a lot of grown men weeping. I had to act like nothing was wrong. I had to say it will be alright, we will get through this. I had to spend several...
View ArticleSimpler days
My birthday is this week, I already got 2 of the best presents I could get and I didn’t even want to celebrate my birthday. It’s no secret that REM has suffered through a tough couple of months....
View ArticleThanksgiving 2012
Thanksgiving 2012 I am thankful for all my friends, without you most of what I do seems very unimportant. I have said many times that the only reason I continue to promote races is because of our...
View ArticleHey, buddy can you spare a quarter of a mil?
Rant 1/24/13 As someone who loves this sport, both as a racer for over 43 years and as promoter for over 27 years, I like to think I’ve seen just about everything. I’ve seen the top amateur kids...
View ArticleManifesto
A couple of days ago an ex pro Motocrosser of some renown told me I should get him out to fix the REM track. To say I was too stunned for a witty comeback would be the truth. Why does someone who...
View ArticleRetaliation
Rant 2/26/13 Let me preface this rant with the warning that if profanity offends you stop reading now. I have waited several days to address this issue, hoping that I would calm down. But frankly...
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