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The Roads I Have Traveled_The Steve Wise Story

“With wins in the Superbikers, AMA road race, Supercross, and Motocross Nationals,
Steve Wise might be the best all-around American motorcycle racer ever.”
--Eric Johnson, Racer X Illustrated

"Steve Wise was born to race motorcycles." Don't let the phrase fool you into thinking he pulled a stellar racing career out of a hat like magic, he didn’t. The magic was in Steve's uncanny ability to squeeze every ounce of forward motion out of a motorcycle -- any motorcycle, on any terrain, and in any form of competition. He is the only motorcycle racer in world history to stand on the victory podium in 6 major categories of Professional motorcycle racing. He was a pioneer and innovator of the sport of Supermoto which got its roots from a made for television program in the seventies. ABC’s Wide World of Sport created the event to pit motorcycle racers from around the world and from all disciplines to battle it out and see who the best overall racer was. Steve won the even two years in a row and would’ve been the only three time winner had Magoo Chandler not been given a works 500cc motor from the Honda motocross team that Steve had recently left to race for Honda’s road racing squad.
Steve was inducted into the American Motorcycle Association (AMA) Hall of Fame in 2001. He was also inducted into the Rio Grande Valley Sports Hall of Fame and Motocross Action Magazine Hall of Fame. Steve was also named the 1982 Road Race rookie of the year and is most proud of the large silver cup he received at the AMA awards banquet in 1982, for being the AMA “Pro Athlete of the Year.” No other racer in history has duplicated these truly amazing feats, nor is anyone likely to for many years to come. Along with Dick Bugsy Mann and Jeff Ward, Steve is in a very rare group of ‘once in a lifetime’ athletes.
The amiable racer-turned-preacher lives in San Antonio and McAllen, Texas and has always been busy since the glory days of racing for Team Honda and setting records that can’t be broken. His ministry centers on fathers and sons bonding the way they were meant to, with passion and compassion towards each other, with God at the center. His book goes into much more detail about his personal life and his relationship with his own father. Drop him a line at www.stevewise.com to read more about this most interesting man. I am proud to be the writer chosen by Steve to write his upcoming biography titled “The Roads I Have Traveled_The Steve Wise Story.”

The Roads I have Traveled:The Steve Wise Story

Prologue

“The Roads I’ve Traveled”
The life story of Steve Wise



I remember it like yesterday. It was the summer of 1979 at the National Motocross Championship event being held at the famous race track, Red Bud, in Buchanan, Michigan. 40 mechanics, with their bikes and riders were standing in the start holding area waiting for our name to be called.
Being one of the top national caliber riders I was the third one called to the line and I watched, as my mechanic Cliff White pushed my red factory Honda RC 250 into the position I had chosen on the starting gate. As I scanned around looking at the other young men I would be fighting with that day, during the two grueling 45-minute motos (races), I glanced at some of the other factory riders.
There was factory Yamaha’s, Bob Hannah, Kawasaki’s, Jim Weinert, Suzuki’s, Kent Howerton, and my own Honda teammate and friend, Marty Tripes. I noticed some of the privately sponsored riders (privateers) such as John Savitski, Greg Theiss and a plethora of other young men who would love to be in my position riding for a factory team.
As I stood behind my motorcycle on the starting line, Cliff was revving the motor on my RC 250 to warm it up. When the starter turned the time card reading 1 minute to go, before the starting gate would drop, I walked over and mounted my factory Honda.
While Cliff continued to control the throttle, as usual, I put my head down on the handlebars to say a little prayer asking God for His protection, but for some reason today was different, very different. What I distinctly remember about that day from any other, as I put my head down on the cross bar, was saying a different little prayer and even today I remember that prayer. I said, “God, if you will protect me from injury and help me to do good, one day I will write a book and tell people about you.”
Little did I know then, but by the time I would write this book about the God whom I promised, my life would be completely transformed into a man I could have only imagined some 28 years later.
There was always a tug in my heart that said God was real, but as I look back after these many years, I realize this God I was praying to then and asking for His blessing, I didn’t even know. The book you are holding now is the fruition of that promise I made to God that day so many years ago. It is the end result of the roads I’ve traveled on the journey to becoming one with the Lord.

--Lord Bless, Steve Wise

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  RonnyJackson633 Posted:

  4/19/2009 6:49 PM

  Hey man, how ya been? Things are going better for me. Got a new bike and training hard.
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  Racer92 Posted:

  9/18/2008 6:03 AM

  Hey fella, whats new your way? Been doing any riding? Havent heard from you in a while - let me know how things are going.
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  RonnyJackson633 Posted:

  9/6/2008 8:04 PM

  Thanks. It's getting really hard on two year old clapped out bikes. I would have won the lites overall but my throttle cable broke. my pipe had a big crack in it too but it held in there. It's gonna be great seeing a "real" mx movie!
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  mxryder231 Posted:

  8/13/2008 9:39 PM

  i used to race back in the day when i didn't have to work. but yeah ncy has been a really good job for me and i wouldn't change anything.