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even talk about it. I'm very personal. I write a bo ut things I've seen, or heard. I let my mind build its ow n story. I guess I would even tual ly want to p ublis h my writing. but right now. . . . " So meti mes I' ve gone into restaura nts and sat in th e corner by myself a nd wat ched people and th en I write abo ut th em . T hat's a lot of fun. "T here's one poet I really lik e to read ," said Dymond. " H is name is Lawren ce Ferlinghetti. My mind has simila rities to his . "T he o nly regr et I have is that I didn 't learn how to read better. It tak es me too long to read books. I don 't like that." " I also want to be a concert pianist, but that's a super long-term pla n. I hav e these dreams that are strong in my head, and I have these o the r drea ms , fantasies, that are weak er. I don' t think a bout the m as m uch ; they're not right there a t the top. And Micky also has more common dreams, such as settling down and Jiving a, so-called, regular life. " I want to ge t a hold of myself and get thi s thing ou t of my syste m, where I don' t have to be wanderi ng around a ll over th e place, so I ca n buil d a foundatio n at home. I wa nt to hav e a wife, som e kids, have a normal li festyle. Bu t I do n 't kn ow if I'll ever be lik e that. That's the o n ly thing I don 't know if I'll ever be able to have, but I real ly would like to have a kid a nd watch him grow." What does Mick y Dymond expect from him self in the future? " I just want to stay level a nd take my failur es just as I've taken my tri umphs. T hat's what is important. No t to live on somet hi ng I did. You live o n some th ing you 're goi ng to do. It doesn 't ma tter a nymore when it 's done. You ca n be a th ree- or fourminu te hero at the troph y presenta- When Dymond has extra time on his hands, he enjoys playing pool with his friends. (He rides bikes much better than he plays pool). "The jumps we ha ve now a re prett y avera ge. I wa nt some thing I can do that ma kes the jumps we have now look pretty basic. I wa nt th e Evel Knievel-type jumps. I wa nt to jump farther a nd farther and fart her, a nd higher." Dym o n d ' s most memorab le moment in m o to cross ha p pen ed durin g the 1987 seaso n. " It was in the 125cc class. the second moto at Red Bud (Buchanan , Michigan )," recaIl ed Dymond. " I came from eigh th and won. I was so aggress ive in side. I was co ming up o n rid ers and yeIling at them in a Satanic vo ice, 'Aww, come on. You're mine.' T he re was a period there for a while wh ere we all were getting carr ied awa y with th e whole dea l (racing). " I want to be reall y good a t racing, and I want to be a supercross cha mpion. I just keep getting better and better for me, a nd even if I don't win every time, it reaIl y doesn't matter. Winning for my job is wh at I'm workin g for , but I just wa nt to be th e best. Once I kn ow in my head th at I'm -the best, th en I'll probabl y qui t do in g it and do some thi ng else." Wh en Dymond isn't raci ng, traveling, practicing or traini ng , he lik es to spend h is spare time wi th h is fri ends o r by himself. " I like to do all kinds of things. I lik e to go out a nd screw around with my frien ds. It doesn't ma tter if I go out on a da te, or go to th e mov ies, or go to a concert. It doesn 't matter. I j ust like to be with people, a nd some times I don't. I can enjoy doing an yth in g. I like to go out by myself; som etimes th at 's great. I like to go and talk wi th peo p le I don't kn ow at all. T hat's definitely interesting. I'm reaIl y sh y, usually, but the last few months or so, I ha ve been real outgoing." Dymond wanted to voice wh ere he stands on drugs. " I don 't tak e any drugs at all. I would never take a nyth ing th at was some kind o f chemical , snor ti ng. or anything with a needl e. Tha t's reaIly scary. I feel sorry for anyone who ge ts into th a t. I wouldn 't even consider ever getting into an y kind of drugs." When Dymond's motocross career Dymond didn't have a bottle of champagne handy to christen his new Yamaha YZ250 pradice bike, so he used the next best thing, a fluorescent tube. In the background is Dymond's new, two-stOlY, town home. Dymond's balcony (right) overlooks a goff course. is over, he won't be sitti ng around watc h ing television for the rest of h is life. Far from it. H e has pl an s, lo ts of them, which should keep him busy for a very long time. " I' ve got goals written out unt il I'm abo ut 40 vears old. I want to road race motorcycles a nd race cars. I want to write a nd be a concert pianist. " I want to road race bikes, a nd I wou ld li ke to do it this year...1 don't know ho w yet, a nd next year for sure. I'll like road raci ng. It 's a real nea t feeli ng goi ng fast; go ing fast is the o nly feelin g." One of Dymond's ho bbies is wri ting, mostly poetry. He has stac ks of boo ks wi th a collection of poet ry he has written . " Proba bly my bi ggest and stro ngest drea m I'v e go t ri ght, now is my wr iting. There's no wa y arou nd it. I'll probabl y write for th e rest of my life. But wh ether I ever wa n t to p ublis h it or let o ther people see my writing, th at 's diff erent. I may sho w my wri ting to some of my friends, bu t that's a bo ut it. I wo n' t let anybody read my books. If I wa nt someone to see it, I'll teIl it or read it to him. A lot of th e tim es I won 't (p laying piano is) not one of those things that's righ t th ere at the top , but I think there wiIl be a time whe n it wiIl be. I'll love doing it. " I would lo ve to be able to come home from riding a motorcycle, or wor ki ng all da y, and be able to sit down on the piano and start pl a yin g something rea l soft. I think tha t would be great. But I do n't wa nt to be your basic pian ist. Wh a t I wa nt to do is get something very uniq ue, very much my own style, a nd do it. " I can' t .thin k of one da y in my life where I haven 't drea med at least an hour or so a bo ut th in gs I wa nt to do . r do n' t have drea ms very much where I'm diff erent as a person. It 's like my mind says, 'O K, now reaIl y let go a nd go as far as you ca n ta ke it ,' a nd I want to do th at with my life. Let go, a nd let it go as far as it can take me. Do whatever I ca n. " A lot of people I kn ow think I do all th ese thi ngs to ~e t all this glory . Maybe, su bco nscio usly, I'm just a glory- h ungry son -of-a-gun, but I don 't think of myself go ing after it for th a t reason. I th ink of it as somet hing I build u p in my head , and then I'll do something a bou t it." tion, and th en aft er tha t, you 're just hi story. T he next week end yo u might just ge t third. Some people are o nly what they just did; I kn ow that' s how it is in this sport, but I really don 't want to be lik e th at. I want to be able to say , 'WeIl, this one didn't work o u t so weIl, but th e next one wiIl .' " T hat's how it is." •