Who here is mototalk alumni?

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FreshTopEnd 11/10/2011 6:46am
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GuyB wrote:
Count me in. I posted there after Fresh Dirt disappeared.
Part of your evil plan? Laughing
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jndmx 11/10/2011 6:47am
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Yup.....was a lurker for a long while, paid and posted for a little bit.

I actually still have my signed JYD Moto Talk "By the people for the people" t-shirt to prove it......lol.
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motokid40 11/10/2011 6:47am
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The seatbounce killed it!
I was there!
muGz.147 11/10/2011 6:48am
11/10/2011 6:48am
I was there from 1997 til about a year after TFS's meltdown. I've participated in this board a lot less than I did at MT, but MT was just that, a board. Vital is a site with much more content and tangible info.

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rallendude 11/10/2011 7:03am
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I was there. Same name. Same name everywhere really. I was a great place to talk moto for a while.
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themrtoad 11/10/2011 7:04am
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I was there for a few years. I remeber you could earn a new level after how many posts you scored. I think I made expert or something?? As I recall I was the themrtoad there too. I hated fourstrokes back then as well.
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munsch121 11/10/2011 7:17am
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I was there, same name as here, I even finished a top 5 in the MX unleashed tourney, HELL YEAH
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JW381 11/10/2011 7:22am
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It was the only moto forum I knew of. I didn't know there was a much updated, not to mention free, forum out there with a lot more members. I'm glad I paid for a year tho, so I could learn the ropes (if there are even ropes to be learned) of the internet motocross mafia. Plus, there were some cool people who posted there i.e. Rock and Peelout.
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Tbteam 11/10/2011 7:31am
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I was there for quite some time. Met a lot of people in real life because of that board.

Holy crap though... when it went south, it was quick and deliberate.
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OldTiddler 11/10/2011 7:40am
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Among other things, what was somewhat unique about MT was that Steve formed a sort of backbone for many of the discussions around pro news. Before riders found twitter and DC started posting here, there wasn't a whole lot of "insider" info or perspective coming from anyone outside of him.

When he left, MT became just another MD, a room full of noise but with a $30 cover charge and lots of empty seats.
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agency399 11/10/2011 7:40am
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Count me in too. I think from 2004 until TFS left. The board had no movement and I was hearing all about this vital place. Been here ever since......

When I first started following the sport I could not get enough from the mags. Anything and everything to do with motocross just wasn’t enough. After I found mototalk I was in heaven with all the motocross and supercross talk.

I am a DC fan, pretty much from his Reason for Being article in Racer X. Always found myself agreeing with what he had to say. Although I did not always agree with TFS views on things, I was a fan of his too for all that he provided to mototalk.

There was a lot of good dudes on mototalk………

I was bummed when that all that fell apart.
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Butters 11/10/2011 7:48am
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GRA Rules!
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raddad 11/10/2011 7:54am
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Yep I was there too, not a bad place but it always irked me to pay to shoot the breeze with other moto heads. The drama was over the top in later years!
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therealjonon 11/10/2011 7:56am
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I guess you could say i'm alumni motonews. thanks again to all that sponsored me from the Motonews Board in 2007. What a great group of people I met....
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brocster 11/10/2011 7:58am
11/10/2011 7:58am Edited Date/Time 11/10/2011 8:31am
guilty found whip it!/fresh dirt then mototalk, gas card was awesome, lurked at motodrive and been here for a minute. still have mototalk as a favorite but don't click it much.
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WhipMeister 11/10/2011 8:26am
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brocster wrote:
guilty found whip it!/fresh dirt then mototalk, gas card was awesome, lurked at motodrive and been here for a minute. still have mototalk as a favorite...
guilty found whip it!/fresh dirt then mototalk, gas card was awesome, lurked at motodrive and been here for a minute. still have mototalk as a favorite but don't click it much.
WTF is Whip It!?
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Chris O'Neal 11/10/2011 8:30am
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I used to post on there all the time but haven't been on there in years. TFS once told me that mototalk at one time was in the top 25, on the list for most hits, of websites in the world. Whoever owns the site is probably pissed he didn't sell it at its peak. Kind of reminds me of myspace vs facebook.
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FastEddy 11/10/2011 9:01am
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Chris O'Neal wrote:
I used to post on there all the time but haven't been on there in years. TFS once told me that mototalk at one time was...
I used to post on there all the time but haven't been on there in years. TFS once told me that mototalk at one time was in the top 25, on the list for most hits, of websites in the world. Whoever owns the site is probably pissed he didn't sell it at its peak. Kind of reminds me of myspace vs facebook.
Steve must have been kidding you.
There is no way it was ever in Alexa's top 25...not even top 2,500.
Even when it was in it's hay day ,I believe it was only a PR3 domain....which it still is til this day.
Not many hard/back links,I count 135 this day.
It is ranked right now in the world 613,102 & in the US 171,866.

Vitalmx is bigger then motonews ever was...it's a pr 4.
Alexa Traffic Rank: 40,534 in the world.
US Traffic Rank in US: 10,088

The top 25 in the world in those days were always dominated by SE's & big sites like Microsoft.
hotbot ,Yahoo.com,Altavista,(Google.com came on later),aol.com,msn.com ect... then you also had their foreign domains to compete with google uk etc..
Those sites all did millions of hits a day.

Even in this day sites like craigslist,apple,ask,bing,Espn aren't even top 25..

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brocster 11/10/2011 9:02am
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brocster wrote:
guilty found whip it!/fresh dirt then mototalk, gas card was awesome, lurked at motodrive and been here for a minute. still have mototalk as a favorite...
guilty found whip it!/fresh dirt then mototalk, gas card was awesome, lurked at motodrive and been here for a minute. still have mototalk as a favorite but don't click it much.
WhipMeister wrote:
WTF is Whip It!?
Wink
early days of them internets....searched "motocross", not sure which engine if there even was one, and I think Whip It! was the only thing that came up.
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WhipMeister 11/10/2011 9:08am
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brocster wrote:
guilty found whip it!/fresh dirt then mototalk, gas card was awesome, lurked at motodrive and been here for a minute. still have mototalk as a favorite...
guilty found whip it!/fresh dirt then mototalk, gas card was awesome, lurked at motodrive and been here for a minute. still have mototalk as a favorite but don't click it much.
WhipMeister wrote:
WTF is Whip It!?
Wink
brocster wrote:
early days of them internets....searched "motocross", not sure which engine if there even was one, and I think Whip It! was the only thing that came...
early days of them internets....searched "motocross", not sure which engine if there even was one, and I think Whip It! was the only thing that came up.
Whooda thunk it? LOL
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WhipMeister 11/10/2011 9:12am
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FastEddy wrote:
Steve must have been kidding you. There is no way it was ever in Alexa's top 25...not even top 2,500. Even when it was in it's...
Steve must have been kidding you.
There is no way it was ever in Alexa's top 25...not even top 2,500.
Even when it was in it's hay day ,I believe it was only a PR3 domain....which it still is til this day.
Not many hard/back links,I count 135 this day.
It is ranked right now in the world 613,102 & in the US 171,866.

Vitalmx is bigger then motonews ever was...it's a pr 4.
Alexa Traffic Rank: 40,534 in the world.
US Traffic Rank in US: 10,088

The top 25 in the world in those days were always dominated by SE's & big sites like Microsoft.
hotbot ,Yahoo.com,Altavista,(Google.com came on later),aol.com,msn.com ect... then you also had their foreign domains to compete with google uk etc..
Those sites all did millions of hits a day.

Even in this day sites like craigslist,apple,ask,bing,Espn aren't even top 25..
Well, don't know about MT, but WI!, in 1996 was ranked the 39th 'Sports' site in Yahoo (Alexa didn't exist then AFAIK). Most of the other 38 were WWF sites. Of course, this was before SI, ESPN, NASCAR or just about any other major media players jumped in. Even Cycle News was nowhere to be found. There was us and motorcycle.com and that's about it for two wheel sites.
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Gukamonster 11/10/2011 9:17am
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TFS had a melt down? That's funny, what happened?
leakypipe23 11/10/2011 9:20am
11/10/2011 9:20am
I got in a lot of dumb arguments there. It was THE place for moto news in it's heyday, but it never adapted. Met lots of good people from there, though. 500Guy, BobbyM, GirlsRFun, Shenzi, etc.
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peelout 11/10/2011 9:21am
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i liked mototalk, still lurk there every now and then. it was the first board i joined and posted to, met a lot of cool people.

met Yosmithy at the 09 Houston SX when i was wearing an eye patch, pretty nice guy
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FastEddy 11/10/2011 9:22am
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WhipMeister wrote:
Well, don't know about MT, but WI!, in 1996 was ranked the 39th 'Sports' site in Yahoo (Alexa didn't exist then AFAIK). Most of the other...
Well, don't know about MT, but WI!, in 1996 was ranked the 39th 'Sports' site in Yahoo (Alexa didn't exist then AFAIK). Most of the other 38 were WWF sites. Of course, this was before SI, ESPN, NASCAR or just about any other major media players jumped in. Even Cycle News was nowhere to be found. There was us and motorcycle.com and that's about it for two wheel sites.
Yeah,I could see that for sports sites.
The old motoworld.com domain had a good ranking in those days I believe also in AOL's SE.
I think alexa started in 96....remember the old alexa toolbar? Smile

Here is some old SE's you may remember also...Lycos,JumpStation,Go dot com,Excite,Dogpile.
Also in those days for some reason free webhosts ranked high in the engines...sites like freeyellow.com ect...
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Chris O'Neal 11/10/2011 9:38am
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Chris O'Neal wrote:
I used to post on there all the time but haven't been on there in years. TFS once told me that mototalk at one time was...
I used to post on there all the time but haven't been on there in years. TFS once told me that mototalk at one time was in the top 25, on the list for most hits, of websites in the world. Whoever owns the site is probably pissed he didn't sell it at its peak. Kind of reminds me of myspace vs facebook.
FastEddy wrote:
Steve must have been kidding you. There is no way it was ever in Alexa's top 25...not even top 2,500. Even when it was in it's...
Steve must have been kidding you.
There is no way it was ever in Alexa's top 25...not even top 2,500.
Even when it was in it's hay day ,I believe it was only a PR3 domain....which it still is til this day.
Not many hard/back links,I count 135 this day.
It is ranked right now in the world 613,102 & in the US 171,866.

Vitalmx is bigger then motonews ever was...it's a pr 4.
Alexa Traffic Rank: 40,534 in the world.
US Traffic Rank in US: 10,088

The top 25 in the world in those days were always dominated by SE's & big sites like Microsoft.
hotbot ,Yahoo.com,Altavista,(Google.com came on later),aol.com,msn.com ect... then you also had their foreign domains to compete with google uk etc..
Those sites all did millions of hits a day.

Even in this day sites like craigslist,apple,ask,bing,Espn aren't even top 25..
Yeah who knows. I think it might have been just for sports sites. Either way it did have a huge amount of traffic at one point. I wonder what the top website for motocross is now?
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FastEddy 11/10/2011 9:44am
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Chris O'Neal wrote:
Yeah who knows. I think it might have been just for sports sites. Either way it did have a huge amount of traffic at one point...
Yeah who knows. I think it might have been just for sports sites. Either way it did have a huge amount of traffic at one point. I wonder what the top website for motocross is now?
Prolly for traffic...
I would guess Racerxonline,it's ranked 31,613 in the world. Rank in US: 8,440.

motorcycle-usa.com is up there also in world rankings.
21,327 in the world. Traffic Rank in US: 10,431
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Outsider 11/10/2011 9:44am
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I think so, can't really remember thoughLaughing
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rocrac 11/10/2011 9:51am
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I wasted $30 bucks there at one point.... it did link me to motodrive though.
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Sondy132001 11/10/2011 9:54am
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Moto East Mag wrote:
I get this odd sensation when I read Vital these days- it's just like mototalk a few years back.
'Fess up...
No fessing up I was a proud member of MT with my good buddy TFreakingFS, regardless what you all think he changed the way we have moto news delivered, he is the man Woohoo We have digital mags & pics, thanks to him, Cycle News, Kit Palmer was the first to pull the trigger and use TFS's pics from SX.

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