The Feed

 I’m dumbfounded, man. I always wanted a cover. I was always hoping that if I won a WORCS race when there wasn’t another big race that weekend, I’d get one. Never lined up right. Then I won a championship, and they gave me the little corner quarter cover picture on the front of Cycle News. A year or two later, Stilez [Robertson] mopped up at World Mini GP and got a full cover. There I was, a 28-year-old dude jealous of a 10-year-old kid, lol. Never in a million years did I think that at 41 I would somehow get a cover.

Bobby Bonds // Bakersfield, CA

(Bonds sent this note to Jason Weigandt after our March 2026 issue arrived with him on the cover. It was a photo Simon Cudby shot 25 years ago when Bonds was a 16-year-old phenom on a Pro Circuit Kawasaki KX125. DC)