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Cycle News 2014 Issue 50 December 16

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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

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