Cooksey & GL got me thinking

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I listen to Gypsy from time to time, not to hear him, but to hear the guys he interviews.  I like hearing their stories, Gypsy doesn’t really bother me with the Bro, Dude stuff.  Cooksie on the other hand, I’ve kind of gotten past him.  He may have good interviews with others but I can never seem to get past his intro’s.  The guy just seems to have me looking for an arm sling he has to wear from patting himself on the back.  

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Next thing you know, Langston Motorsports which I think GL owns, will be sponsoring the Cooksey channel.   Not sure why a businessman would align himself with a guy like Cooksey.  I used to watch him, but lately I've figured out he just tries to be controversial and always says he's trying to help riders, meanwhile he attacks guys like Roczen and even his wife, and uses Deegan as click bait for his videos.  Bizarre behavior, but I get it, he wants views on his channel.  

But GL runs a motorcycle shop, good way to alienate half your customer base by getting involved with a Cooksey type individual.  

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Herr Lich wrote:
In what way is GL a legend? Surely not as a rider. Apart from his opinions does Grant 'tinfoil' Langston have any proof to back up his...

In what way is GL a legend? Surely not as a rider. 

Apart from his opinions does Grant 'tinfoil' Langston have any proof to back up his claims? 

Of course, I support any argument that states the 'moto media' is entirely captured by the commercial elements of the sport and has close to zero objectivity...and is essentially one big long brodown mutual blowing session. 

Kyle978 wrote:
Are you retarded or a troll? GL won a world championship, 125 AMA Motocross title, 2 Lites SX titles, and a 450 AMA Motocross championship. What is...

Are you retarded or a troll? GL won a world championship, 125 AMA Motocross title, 2 Lites SX titles, and a 450 AMA Motocross championship. 

What is a legend then? LOL, idiot.

GL also won the  supermoto championship in 2003.

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Next thing you know, Langston Motorsports which I think GL owns, will be sponsoring the Cooksey channel.   Not sure why a businessman would align himself...

Next thing you know, Langston Motorsports which I think GL owns, will be sponsoring the Cooksey channel.   Not sure why a businessman would align himself with a guy like Cooksey.  I used to watch him, but lately I've figured out he just tries to be controversial and always says he's trying to help riders, meanwhile he attacks guys like Roczen and even his wife, and uses Deegan as click bait for his videos.  Bizarre behavior, but I get it, he wants views on his channel.  

But GL runs a motorcycle shop, good way to alienate half your customer base by getting involved with a Cooksey type individual.  

I’m sure motocross bike sales are a small percentage of what they sell. Even smaller percentage of that knows who Cooksey is. I think Langston Motorsports sales will be fine. 

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Next thing you know, Langston Motorsports which I think GL owns, will be sponsoring the Cooksey channel.   Not sure why a businessman would align himself...

Next thing you know, Langston Motorsports which I think GL owns, will be sponsoring the Cooksey channel.   Not sure why a businessman would align himself with a guy like Cooksey.  I used to watch him, but lately I've figured out he just tries to be controversial and always says he's trying to help riders, meanwhile he attacks guys like Roczen and even his wife, and uses Deegan as click bait for his videos.  Bizarre behavior, but I get it, he wants views on his channel.  

But GL runs a motorcycle shop, good way to alienate half your customer base by getting involved with a Cooksey type individual.  

Yeah I know I won't buy a bike from anyone associated with Kooksey..........wut?

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Next thing you know, Langston Motorsports which I think GL owns, will be sponsoring the Cooksey channel.   Not sure why a businessman would align himself...

Next thing you know, Langston Motorsports which I think GL owns, will be sponsoring the Cooksey channel.   Not sure why a businessman would align himself with a guy like Cooksey.  I used to watch him, but lately I've figured out he just tries to be controversial and always says he's trying to help riders, meanwhile he attacks guys like Roczen and even his wife, and uses Deegan as click bait for his videos.  Bizarre behavior, but I get it, he wants views on his channel.  

But GL runs a motorcycle shop, good way to alienate half your customer base by getting involved with a Cooksey type individual.  

Why would he do that. He seems like he just came on because someone asked him for an interview. It doesn’t seem like they’re about to join forces

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I designated myself during the (I)'ll portion already so the could care works exactly as it should. I *couldn't care less could work as well but...

I designated myself during the (I)'ll portion already so the could care works exactly as it should. I *couldn't care less could work as well but we'd be approaching a double positive...lets just be moto guys and not resort to grammar policing.

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Grammar police is a whole different thread!! Paging Falcon to the white courtesy phone….😁

I'm going to go out on a limb here and correct Carneetus. 

This is a pretty common mistake, because it uses an opposite to say "I don't care." The correct term is "I could not care less." It means "I care so little, that it is impossible to care any less than I do."

If you say, "I could care less," it means you care a little bit at least. In other words, it would be possible to care less than I do, because I care some amount.

 

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PS- Langston Motorsports is owned by GL's parents (and I'm sure he probably has a stake in it too.) They are super nice people, and they run one of the few family-owned shops still in Southern California. If you're anywhere near the Perris/Menifee/Temecula area, you owe it to yourself to go check them out. 

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How anyone listens to Kooksey is beyond me

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GL sure has a lot of cock & balls!

He is taking stands against the vaccine, Lucas Oils for being too Liberal, EksBrand for well you know...etc...

For Kooksey to keep posting pictures of Rita Coombs, DC and Steve Matress really shows the narrative he is trying to make them look like criminals. 

For F's sake dude, people are in business to make money.  The way he is so negative towards anything he is just running his mouth and trying to be a disrupter and get clicks.  He is free to do that but doesn't make it right.  Lots of hearsay and conjecture.  I watched the video and helped him make some $$ and I don't feel good about that.

I like GL but he is wearing a little bit of a tinfoil hat perhaps?.

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GL sure has a lot of cock & balls!He is taking stands against the vaccine, Lucas Oils for being too Liberal, EksBrand for well you know...etc...For...

GL sure has a lot of cock & balls!

He is taking stands against the vaccine, Lucas Oils for being too Liberal, EksBrand for well you know...etc...

For Kooksey to keep posting pictures of Rita Coombs, DC and Steve Matress really shows the narrative he is trying to make them look like criminals. 

For F's sake dude, people are in business to make money.  The way he is so negative towards anything he is just running his mouth and trying to be a disrupter and get clicks.  He is free to do that but doesn't make it right.  Lots of hearsay and conjecture.  I watched the video and helped him make some $$ and I don't feel good about that.

I like GL but he is wearing a little bit of a tinfoil hat perhaps?.

Langston's hair has turned into tinfoil from spending so much time hanging out with nuts like Ping and Kooksey. Fuck off back to South Africa. 

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Just listened to the interview. I don't know much about this Cooksey fellow, but I found his interviewing style was great. I also believe if Cooksey is going around consistently threatening physical violence publicly on people, why isn't he locked up? That is against the law, right? As far as the interview, so much of what GL stated was controversial, but also quite believable and a whole bunch of no shit. Matthes is lazy, Wasserman is corrupt, Feld is greedy, RC is a shitty analyst, management doesn't want riders to organize, well yeah I can see that? So no, I cannot see how any of GL's statement could piss off people too much, it was all pretty much stuff you could figure on your own.

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I'll always respect the man who stood up fir himself  in  2020 whilst 90% of men bent over like a bitch. 

Had we had more men like him in society we would live in a different and better world today.

 

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Falcon wrote:
PS- Langston Motorsports is owned by GL's parents (and I'm sure he probably has a stake in it too.) They are super nice people, and they...

PS- Langston Motorsports is owned by GL's parents (and I'm sure he probably has a stake in it too.) They are super nice people, and they run one of the few family-owned shops still in Southern California. If you're anywhere near the Perris/Menifee/Temecula area, you owe it to yourself to go check them out. 

I agree! I love going to Langston Motorsports when I'm down that way. One of the rare Family owned motorcycle dealerships with a lot of dirt bikes. 

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2/18/2025 11:52am
Herr Lich wrote:
In what way is GL a legend? Surely not as a rider. Apart from his opinions does Grant 'tinfoil' Langston have any proof to back up his...

In what way is GL a legend? Surely not as a rider. 

Apart from his opinions does Grant 'tinfoil' Langston have any proof to back up his claims? 

Of course, I support any argument that states the 'moto media' is entirely captured by the commercial elements of the sport and has close to zero objectivity...and is essentially one big long brodown mutual blowing session. 

Kyle978 wrote:
Are you retarded or a troll? GL won a world championship, 125 AMA Motocross title, 2 Lites SX titles, and a 450 AMA Motocross championship. What is...

Are you retarded or a troll? GL won a world championship, 125 AMA Motocross title, 2 Lites SX titles, and a 450 AMA Motocross championship. 

What is a legend then? LOL, idiot.

endurox wrote:

GL also won the  supermoto championship in 2003.

Well said.GL is also a super cool guy.

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I thought GL and Mathes had a good relationship.......weird for GL to vomit all that info, but since Cooksey is a Mathes hater is makes sense. 

When was the last time Cooksey interviewed someone credible?

 

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Coach529 wrote:
I thought GL and Mathes had a good relationship.......weird for GL to vomit all that info, but since Cooksey is a Mathes hater is makes sense. When...

I thought GL and Mathes had a good relationship.......weird for GL to vomit all that info, but since Cooksey is a Mathes hater is makes sense. 

When was the last time Cooksey interviewed someone credible?

 

GL and Matthes's relationship kind of fell apart around the same time of the 2nd drunk GL episode....I also believe that different political views played a big part of GL turning on Matthes.....Kooksey has never interviewed anybody credible....anyone that would sit down with that dipshit instantly loses whatever credibility that they had...

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2/19/2025 4:12pm Edited Date/Time 2/19/2025 4:33pm
Coach529 wrote:
I thought GL and Mathes had a good relationship.......weird for GL to vomit all that info, but since Cooksey is a Mathes hater is makes sense. When...

I thought GL and Mathes had a good relationship.......weird for GL to vomit all that info, but since Cooksey is a Mathes hater is makes sense. 

When was the last time Cooksey interviewed someone credible?

 

DonM wrote:
GL and Matthes's relationship kind of fell apart around the same time of the 2nd drunk GL episode....I also believe that different political views played a...

GL and Matthes's relationship kind of fell apart around the same time of the 2nd drunk GL episode....I also believe that different political views played a big part of GL turning on Matthes.....Kooksey has never interviewed anybody credible....anyone that would sit down with that dipshit instantly loses whatever credibility that they had...

It’s a huge red flag on who you are as a person when you can’t be friends with, or at least maintain professional relationships with people who have a different political ideology than you. 

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Coach529 wrote:
I thought GL and Mathes had a good relationship.......weird for GL to vomit all that info, but since Cooksey is a Mathes hater is makes sense. When...

I thought GL and Mathes had a good relationship.......weird for GL to vomit all that info, but since Cooksey is a Mathes hater is makes sense. 

When was the last time Cooksey interviewed someone credible?

 

DonM wrote:
GL and Matthes's relationship kind of fell apart around the same time of the 2nd drunk GL episode....I also believe that different political views played a...

GL and Matthes's relationship kind of fell apart around the same time of the 2nd drunk GL episode....I also believe that different political views played a big part of GL turning on Matthes.....Kooksey has never interviewed anybody credible....anyone that would sit down with that dipshit instantly loses whatever credibility that they had...

It’s a huge red flag on who you are as a person when you can’t be friends with, or at least maintain professional relationships with people...

It’s a huge red flag on who you are as a person when you can’t be friends with, or at least maintain professional relationships with people who have a different political ideology than you. 

Unfortunately in todays society both far ends of the political spectrum apparently can't.....

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DonM wrote:
GL and Matthes's relationship kind of fell apart around the same time of the 2nd drunk GL episode....I also believe that different political views played a...

GL and Matthes's relationship kind of fell apart around the same time of the 2nd drunk GL episode....I also believe that different political views played a big part of GL turning on Matthes.....Kooksey has never interviewed anybody credible....anyone that would sit down with that dipshit instantly loses whatever credibility that they had...

It's no coincidence that GL started to turn on Mathes when he joined Ping and the whisky throttle show, Ping handed GL his tin foil hat as he walked in the door, up until that point GL and Mathes had no issues.

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 If it takes kooky to get you thinking, you’re in big trouble 

 

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I love Langstons dealership and he does have a great family, but what exactly do you mean by family owned dealership?  A guy, with a family owns Temecula and FBC.   A guy with a family owns Berts Mega Mall.   A guy with a family owns Chaparral.  All these dealerships have an owner and family members working somewhere in the business.   

What is the bar for a dealership to be called "family owned"?

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RMT wrote:
I love Langstons dealership and he does have a great family, but what exactly do you mean by family owned dealership?  A guy, with a family...

I love Langstons dealership and he does have a great family, but what exactly do you mean by family owned dealership?  A guy, with a family owns Temecula and FBC.   A guy with a family owns Berts Mega Mall.   A guy with a family owns Chaparral.  All these dealerships have an owner and family members working somewhere in the business.   

What is the bar for a dealership to be called "family owned"?

Multiple family members each have stake in the business, at least that’s the standard for family owned up where I’m at

2/20/2025 10:30am Edited Date/Time 2/20/2025 10:30am

I think GL is hands down the best outdoor commentator we have ever had.

 

But that doesn't mean he isn't autistic af and think the world should revolve around him.

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Next thing you know, Langston Motorsports which I think GL owns, will be sponsoring the Cooksey channel.   Not sure why a businessman would align himself...

Next thing you know, Langston Motorsports which I think GL owns, will be sponsoring the Cooksey channel.   Not sure why a businessman would align himself with a guy like Cooksey.  I used to watch him, but lately I've figured out he just tries to be controversial and always says he's trying to help riders, meanwhile he attacks guys like Roczen and even his wife, and uses Deegan as click bait for his videos.  Bizarre behavior, but I get it, he wants views on his channel.  

But GL runs a motorcycle shop, good way to alienate half your customer base by getting involved with a Cooksey type individual.  

There’s a good chance GL doesn’t consume his content or even know the full extent of Cooksey.

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He’s not the Vitard whipping boy….He is a propaganda dipshit that will find any way he can to blame and attack DC and Feld…the fact that...

He’s not the Vitard whipping boy….He is a propaganda dipshit that will find any way he can to blame and attack DC and Feld…the fact that you think that he is “new media” tells me how absolutely clueless you are…the guy is a piece of shit…pretty sure I’m not the only one that asshole hasn’t personally attacked and threatened…the dude is a complete piece of shit and only is interested in your clicks so he can profit off your dumbass. 

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He threatened ML more than once. 

Maybe because ML continually deletes anything that goes against his narrative. Dude just deleted my comment I said he would delete calling him out for censoring. Dude is sensitive and low T. He’s done some sketchy stuff to like selling Tomac’s Kawi factory ECU to a friend of mine. Guaranteed this comment gets deleted to. He just censors anyone that calls him out instead of standing his ground and using facts to refute. Total beta move 

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BryceO766 wrote:
Maybe because ML continually deletes anything that goes against his narrative. Dude just deleted my comment I said he would delete calling him out for censoring...

Maybe because ML continually deletes anything that goes against his narrative. Dude just deleted my comment I said he would delete calling him out for censoring. Dude is sensitive and low T. He’s done some sketchy stuff to like selling Tomac’s Kawi factory ECU to a friend of mine. Guaranteed this comment gets deleted to. He just censors anyone that calls him out instead of standing his ground and using facts to refute. Total beta move 

Lol you're unhinged dude. ML isn't that bad and certainly not low t etc. Shit you guys can bitch about nothing

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DonM wrote:
He’s not the Vitard whipping boy….He is a propaganda dipshit that will find any way he can to blame and attack DC and Feld…the fact that...

He’s not the Vitard whipping boy….He is a propaganda dipshit that will find any way he can to blame and attack DC and Feld…the fact that you think that he is “new media” tells me how absolutely clueless you are…the guy is a piece of shit…pretty sure I’m not the only one that asshole hasn’t personally attacked and threatened…the dude is a complete piece of shit and only is interested in your clicks so he can profit off your dumbass. 

-MAVERICK- wrote:

He threatened ML more than once. 

BryceO766 wrote:
Maybe because ML continually deletes anything that goes against his narrative. Dude just deleted my comment I said he would delete calling him out for censoring...

Maybe because ML continually deletes anything that goes against his narrative. Dude just deleted my comment I said he would delete calling him out for censoring. Dude is sensitive and low T. He’s done some sketchy stuff to like selling Tomac’s Kawi factory ECU to a friend of mine. Guaranteed this comment gets deleted to. He just censors anyone that calls him out instead of standing his ground and using facts to refute. Total beta move 

Haven’t opened this thread since the first day it started, so it would be pretty tough for me to delete your comment.

Unless you’re breaking a guideline rule, I don’t delete posts. I do move topics to the dumbgeon sometimes when they’re shit shows, but my level of moderation is extremely minimal. I try to let the forum and the users moderate themselves.

This is the second time I’ve seen “sold Tomac’s ECU to a friend of mine”. 

1. I wish I had a factory ECU, can you point me to where I can get one?

2. That would be stupid for me to sell.

3. A factory ECU would be one of the most pointless things to have considering you can’t access it, you don’t have the engine associated to it, the wiring harness, etc.

4. Who is your friend?
 

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ML,

You’ve been doing great other than the proliferation of dudes from India selling boner pills in every forum that took a little bit to get under control. 😁😁 Keep up the good work. BTW, Im on a KTM so if you could get me an ECU from Sexton’s bike it would be great. I’ll keep on the DL. Race bike or practice, not picky!!

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