www.bmxdirt.com,
www.thebmxdirt.com
March/02/2009 23:09
We received word over the weekend that Average
Joe's Bicycles BMX forum was going off-line.
Average Joe's was very popular with Colorado BMXers
and people were bummed to hear that it was going
the way of leg warmers and parachute pants. After
some thought and a few gentle pushes by some forum
members, team managers, Brad Spalding
and Chris Kuzma
decided to create a new virtual home for
Colorado BMXers. Our initial thought was that
we would put up a standard php forum site and
then build a BMX website around the forum.
After doing some testing, we found the perfect
solution in the social networking platform
Ning. Long
story short, over the course of a couple of
days, a new social
network/forum was created for our BMX
friends and family, www.thebmxdirt.com.
The response has been amazing and fellow
riders, teams and tracks have all taken to
creating the own user profiles and groups. It
will be interesting to see how the site grows
as the race season begins to heat up. One
thing is for sure. The conversations will be
lively!