How was Vitalmx.com started?

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flarider 10/10/2012 3:32pm
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This is the thread that really kicked off Vital and put it on the map, the infamous TRAVIS PASTRANA!!! thread....
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Foo723 10/10/2012 4:10pm
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If i remember correctly, motodrive really picked up momentum when Fresh Dirt had some sort of meltdown, there were so many meltdowns over there, i just cant recall them all. i think the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is still investigating it.

we needed an alternate to mototalk because it turned country club and there were so many rules and regulations, and motodrive was more casual. then mototalk went "pay to play" and that was that ........
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ocscottie 10/10/2012 4:31pm
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"Fresh Dirt had some sort of meltdown"

To be a little more specific, MikeeeP had the meltdown of the century lol

Good to see ya pop in John! Cool
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jasonv43 10/10/2012 5:13pm
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It sounds like Motodrive was like Mardi Gras or a trip to the river for spring break?
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jasonv43 10/10/2012 5:15pm
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And it sounds like I joined the party a little too late. Missed all the good stuff.
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Foo723 10/10/2012 5:18pm
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and dont forget the shyla incident, what board was that?
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I remember we had a famous member that banged hot chicks all day long , hung out and tanned with professional wrestlers.....and he did all that with a baby arm. Used to be a 1/2 way decent guy until he tried to sue a track......like 10 different times. Things went downhill along with the green parrot.
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jeffro503 10/10/2012 5:30pm
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BTW.....those are some of the coolest pics ever! ( up above )
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Foo723 wrote:
and dont forget the shyla incident, what board was that?
Shyla vs Tirzeh ? That was Motodrive.
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jndmx 10/10/2012 5:54pm
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Foo723 wrote:
and dont forget the shyla incident, what board was that?
Racer92 wrote:
Shyla vs Tirzeh ? That was Motodrive.
I was but a little lurker back then......
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GHR 10/10/2012 5:58pm
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flarider wrote:
This is the thread that really kicked off Vital and put it on the map, the infamous TRAVIS PASTRANA!!! thread....
Dude are you kidding me?! I just read that for the first time cover to cover. Classic!
bruiser624 10/10/2012 6:03pm
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flarider wrote:
This is the thread that really kicked off Vital and put it on the map, the infamous TRAVIS PASTRANA!!! thread....
GHR wrote:
Dude are you kidding me?! I just read that for the first time cover to cover. Classic!
Word, that is funny as hell.
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flarider wrote:
This is the thread that really kicked off Vital and put it on the map, the infamous TRAVIS PASTRANA!!! thread....
Yup. An instant classic at the time. We sure had some fun and that poor guy's expense!
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FreshTopEnd 10/10/2012 6:29pm
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TFS will be along soon to claim it was his evil plan . . .

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kaboom645 10/10/2012 7:19pm
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Actually it started over at mxworld.net, and then everybody moved to freshdirt. Tarbash darbash, rc16, marcad, joe788, myself, eidave, wormy, unamused (who was I believe rc16), 2 trick rick etc all posted there regularly. MikeeP had a meltdown over something and started threatening to send the GBI after them. Back then we had the daily AOL chat room conversations (causing me not to get shit done at work) with most of the regulars from motodrive and fresh dirt. I remember RC16 getting hurt and I think mikeep trying to sell his bike while he was still in the hospital or something to that effect.. Man those were the good ole days.
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Hank_Thrill 10/10/2012 8:00pm
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Very cool to hear Brad McDonald and Mark Losey are involved.

I practically grew up reading nothing but their bmx publications.

The early RIDE BMX issues are still to this day some of the greatest bmx magazines produced (imo).

Brad = 25min 25sec. This is the first time I've seen this video since some dude wahoo'd it from me back around '98.
https://youtu.be/-N_eAyFFRYI
bruiser624 10/10/2012 8:04pm
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Is there a link to when the bears started. Still can't figure that one out.
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volcati 10/10/2012 8:22pm
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jasonv43 wrote:
Would love to hear all the stories about how Vital came to be THE place to be that it is today.Smile
The OG's all came from Fresh Dirt and Motonews when it was Motodrive.

You missed the moto-board revolution several years ago. There's a lot of blood and zombie corpses still out there with revenge on their mind, but GuyB is just too nice of a General so they lay off him.

He did many things right, but most of all he never played Hitler with his website in its infancy. I have no idea how big this site is as I'm never here much anymore, but it's all due to GuyB and his class in handling issues.

I could list ten people you could find through Google and get an idea of the BS that used to flow through this place.

**Opps...see a lot of comments on these points. Oh well....is what it is.
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volcati 10/10/2012 8:25pm
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FreshTopEnd wrote:
TFS will be along soon to claim it was his evil plan . . .
TFS is the Napoleon of moto-boards. MikeeeP is the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And the dude, forget his name, who ran Motonews might go down as the biggest idiot ever for thinking he could privative his site and PEOPLE would actually pay for access. That might be the dumbest move ever.
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ocscottie 10/10/2012 9:09pm
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volcati wrote:
TFS is the Napoleon of moto-boards. MikeeeP is the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And the dude, forget his name, who ran Motonews might go down as the biggest...
TFS is the Napoleon of moto-boards. MikeeeP is the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And the dude, forget his name, who ran Motonews might go down as the biggest idiot ever for thinking he could privative his site and PEOPLE would actually pay for access. That might be the dumbest move ever.
"Hutch"

Remember back when MT was fully the wild wild west, hell you didnt even have to register and could just type in a name and post.
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ocscottie 10/10/2012 9:10pm
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Dirtysmile56 wrote:
I concur!
His "artwork" speaks for itself Laughing

The "Joey on his quad" series of pics were freakin epic!
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jeffro503 10/10/2012 9:34pm
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I can tell ya first hand....back in like 2000-2001??.......or around there when I ran into Scottie and RC16 on the "Zone" racing MCM2.....they introduced me to freshdirt. I checked the place out , signed up and never said a word I think. It was kind of cool there.....but Christ all mighty....some dudes used to really get into it. I was a little less "out spoken" back then.....and didn't really feel like getting hammered online.
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WhipMeister 10/10/2012 9:35pm
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FreshTopEnd wrote:
TFS will be along soon to claim it was his evil plan . . .
volcati wrote:
TFS is the Napoleon of moto-boards. MikeeeP is the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And the dude, forget his name, who ran Motonews might go down as the biggest...
TFS is the Napoleon of moto-boards. MikeeeP is the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And the dude, forget his name, who ran Motonews might go down as the biggest idiot ever for thinking he could privative his site and PEOPLE would actually pay for access. That might be the dumbest move ever.
That would be Hutch. (Decent enough person, BTW).

What? I don't get a doppelganger?
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jeffro503 10/10/2012 9:36pm
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Dirtysmile56 wrote:
I concur!
ocscottie wrote:
His "artwork" speaks for itself Laughing

The "Joey on his quad" series of pics were freakin epic!
Scottie.....I know Yamaboy made an appearance here about a year or two ago.....wonder why he stopped posting all together? I didn't care to much for what he said most of the time.....but his mocked up photoshopped skills were genius. Seriously had tears running down my face looking at some of those pics.
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BobbyM 10/10/2012 9:44pm
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tfs and bauer were instrumental in the md migration if i remember correctly too.

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