VOL. 51 ISSUE 50 DECEMBER 16, 2014 P127
FIVE YEARS AGO,
CODY WEBB SET
OUT AFTER THE
AMA ENDUROCROSS
TITLE AND, AFTER
FIVE YEARS OF
HARD WORK AND
SWEAT, HE HAS
THE NUMBER-ONE
PLATE TO SHOW
FOR IT
HARD WORK PAYS OFF
BY SHAN MOORE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER AND MOORE
I
t's not often someone can be successful at two
different sports, but that's exactly what Cody
Webb has done.
Five years ago, after winning the 2010 US Mo-
toTrials National Championship, Webb decided to
expand his horizons and give EnduroCross a try,
mainly because there's very little money to be made
in the sport of MotoTrials. For sure, the sport of Mo-
toTrials is so different from EnduroCross that you
could almost call it a totally different sport, although
the basics are very much the same. In fact, Webb
often credits the skills he's learned from his trials
career as the reason he's been successful at En-
duroCross.
After spending the first few years adapting his
skills over to extreme off-road racing, and learning
the "art of going fast," Webb began to move up the
order in the EnduroCross hierarchy. In 2014, Webb
got off to a quick start by winning the opening round
of the series in Las Vegas. The Beta USA-backed
Californian continued to be the most consistent of
the top contenders and after finishing second to
Blazusiak at the series finale in Ontario, Califor-
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
ANDREA
WILSON
