I like to call myself an Idea man....

I like to do things out of the box sometimes, i don't really care how things work for you, if they don't work for me than i'm doing them a different way, my way. I am a hard head from the rust belt... So needless to say I have a rather unconventional way of doing things sometimes. Prime example I have no throttle control, so don't give me horsepower, not only will I spin around backwards and go slower than shit, I'll complain and then my mechanics and team owner will complain cuz there are no race results. Give me something I can hold wide open, if I can't hold it wide open, it's too fast for me... Slow it down.

I like to think I have a lot of ideas, a lot of good ideas, and some not so much. But I tend to lack follow through (mainly due to lack of talent). I have this problem that if i'm not an expert then I tend to kind of shy away. But I've come up with a lot of ideas I would like to implement regarding race teams, training, working, sponsorship, videos, blogs, twitter, web pages, small business ventures. I should probably follow through on more, ideas are a dime a dozen right? hell, everyone has those. Some I write down, some I forget, but being around the mountain bike industry lately opened my eyes to what you can achieve by having a dream and chasing it. But I'm sick of being blown off, ignored, and under appreciated. Time for changes.

This has happened with things in the past regarding employment, school, other people i've rode for, so in 07 I decided to put my money where my mouth was an do my own deal. We had a good deal in 07 and 08 and by far the best of my career, but I was lacking in places. I never had a full time mechanic (couldn't afford that in the budget) and lacked any sort of mechanical friends that were passionate for the sport and interested in helping me out. I had a fair amount of help if i begged and called the right people, but I always lacked the help at the race track that I thought would of taken me to a higher level. I love my dad, but he aint no Kenny Tolbert. I had Joe Bisha to help me for a few races, but eventually I got burned out.

I got sick of people always telling me they knew what was best for me, but never wanting to help. It's tough to run a race team. It's real tough to run a team on a very small budget by yourself. Say what you want but I was overwhelmed and lost my passion. in 2008 from May to October I was home for a combined 7 days. And even after my best year, I was getting bitched at constantly about something, going to the wrong races, not doing well enough, going racing by myself. That sucked and was the final straw.

After a year of being in the sport but simultaneously being as isolated from the sport as possible, my perspective changed, and growing up a little helped. I've never been a gym guy, I cannot work out in a gym and lift weights, I can however go ride my bicycle all day and have fun. All i've ever done is think about motorcycles, whether its Dirt Track, Motocross, Supercross, World Superbike, Moto GP. Hell all my friends race motorbucles and I can't get away from that, and I don't want to. Life can suck, but let me telling you working your tail off, no matter how hard, and getting to do what you love and enjoy to do, is way better than anything else.

Come 2012 and in 2-3 years it's been full circle. I want to go racing, I want to make use of these ideas. So I'm going to try and do some different stuff to be able to go racing, and not just rely on hand outs like some people, but to do the best job I can to work for whoever the hell wants to sponsor/employ my dumb ass.

- Dizz