History of VitalMX?

Pumpkin37
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My buddy showed me Motonews in like 04 or 05...i would check religiously and then something happened with motonews and i landed on vitalmx around 06...

My buddy showed me Motonews in like 04 or 05...i would check religiously and then something happened with motonews and i landed on vitalmx around 06 ish.. been here ever since. From my understanding this place was motodrive before vital mx? somebody correct me if im wrong. 

I believe Gibby when running MotoDrive was approached by the Vital people and Motodrive was rolled into Vital as the motocross forum.

Motonews was also going to start charging for accounts, hence the mass exodus here in 2006. 

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2/14/2026 12:50am Edited Date/Time 2/14/2026 12:50am

Fresh top end's post in this thread are on point.

The motoboards started late 1990's. Motonews and Mikeep fresh dirt were the first boards I came across. Guy B posted on them. whatever drama went on with fresh dirt I don't care to dig up. GuyB started a message board called Motodrive, and everybody migrated over to his board. Many uses posted on both motodrive and motonews. TFS had the great idea to charge money to post on motonews and quite a few deleted their motonews accounts and just posted on Motocrive, Ironically, TFS loved to post on Guy B's board and we had a fun little fued; we called motonews "Bushwood" from caddy shac and TFS called us "Slackers" Guy B got a job with Vital and rolled motodrive into the new website. Not sure how the new guy took over

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I have been here since the beginning. I used to post all the time on Mototalk and Motodrive but I mostly scroll now.  Before that I was on the motocross madness sites.

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Those that have been around for about 20 years will remember Alizee

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Those that have been around for about 20 years will remember Alizee
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Those that have been around for about 20 years will remember Alizee

Alphado will be around any moment.

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Pumpkin37 wrote:

Motonews was also going to start charging for accounts, hence the mass exodus here in 2006. 

It was already charging by 2000 when I joined, had been for a least a year then, and thriving - probably because it was a place you could as a fan interact with some riders and people leading the racing side of things.  Really a product of the times.  It thrived because of Bruhn, whether you liked him or not, and the content he brought, and died when he left.  

Steve was a pretty good moderator on balance, but It was not in Steve's nature to take crap, which he did both from posters and from insiders who didn't like what some posters wrote on MT (or any board).  Eventually he had his fill and stepped out, went to NASA, and trolled just about anyone in power stateside.  Davey was the figurehead for that, but the people running SX really were hard on him and pissed when he went to Supercross.com because they resented that Lex had that domain.  Not a great time for people who had friends on both sides of that.   Regardless of how it ended he brought a lot to the sport and should be recognized for that, and missed.

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HAHAHA.....Boobies

Where has all the time gone???

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Sully wrote:
I thought Steve ported a lot of our accounts over from MotoDrive when this place first started, and that's the reason so many of us have...

I thought Steve ported a lot of our accounts over from MotoDrive when this place first started, and that's the reason so many of us have join dates in August of '06? I have a hard time remembering what I did yesterday, though, so I could be wrong about that.

I recall something similar. My join date is 8/20/06 I remember getting an AIM message (remember those?) from GuyB with a link to join/sign up for...

I recall something similar. My join date is 8/20/06 I remember getting an AIM message (remember those?) from GuyB with a link to join/sign up for the new site. I think I was still working with Gibby at TransWorld MX at the time 

Aim and dial up internet. Hoping you’re parents aren’t waiting for a call so you don’t get your ass beat for tying up the line. 

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Sully wrote:
I thought Steve ported a lot of our accounts over from MotoDrive when this place first started, and that's the reason so many of us have...

I thought Steve ported a lot of our accounts over from MotoDrive when this place first started, and that's the reason so many of us have join dates in August of '06? I have a hard time remembering what I did yesterday, though, so I could be wrong about that.

I recall something similar. My join date is 8/20/06 I remember getting an AIM message (remember those?) from GuyB with a link to join/sign up for...

I recall something similar. My join date is 8/20/06 I remember getting an AIM message (remember those?) from GuyB with a link to join/sign up for the new site. I think I was still working with Gibby at TransWorld MX at the time 

jmo443 wrote:

Aim and dial up internet. Hoping you’re parents aren’t waiting for a call so you don’t get your ass beat for tying up the line. 

And don’t forget the free AOL trail disc. 

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I use to go back to some of the first few pages of the forum and read what discussions were happening then. It was super intetesting...

I use to go back to some of the first few pages of the forum and read what discussions were happening then. It was super intetesting. Unfortunately, it's pretty much impossible to randomly browse with the infinite scroll. 

I always thought it'd be cool if vital had a "bump of the week" where some interesting conversation from years ago is bumped to the top so people can read it or continue the discussion. 

@ML512 

Anyway to make this possible? Or remove the infinite scroll? 

There are so many lost discussions due to not being able to go back in time easily. Would love to be able to go back and read past topics. 

Let us time travel! 🙏

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Landed here in 2010 when I was looking for MXoN information about the Colorado race

Seen some awesome content early on, then it kinda took a dump with GuyB suspending anyone that didn't think like him.

Still has its issues but what forum doesn't 

Miss OCScottie for sure, The SX discussion was rockin when he hosted them

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My boys started racing in 2004 and as was always on the internet searching for stuff getting fully immersed in moto to help my boys racing efforts. Most of my time was on Georgia moto forums as that's were we were racing Dirtman1 (Kevin kelly) series.

I kept hearing people mention the pros and smart industry people on motodrive/mototalk so I found it in mid 2004 and been here ever since. Can't say there has been a single day that I haven't hopped on since. 

When I'm bored, when I want news, when I stand in check out lines, when I take a shit, you name it, it's my default site. Lol

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FREE RINGER!!!

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Sully wrote:
I thought Steve ported a lot of our accounts over from MotoDrive when this place first started, and that's the reason so many of us have...

I thought Steve ported a lot of our accounts over from MotoDrive when this place first started, and that's the reason so many of us have join dates in August of '06? I have a hard time remembering what I did yesterday, though, so I could be wrong about that.

I recall something similar. My join date is 8/20/06 I remember getting an AIM message (remember those?) from GuyB with a link to join/sign up for...

I recall something similar. My join date is 8/20/06 I remember getting an AIM message (remember those?) from GuyB with a link to join/sign up for the new site. I think I was still working with Gibby at TransWorld MX at the time 

jmo443 wrote:

Aim and dial up internet. Hoping you’re parents aren’t waiting for a call so you don’t get your ass beat for tying up the line. 

Net Zero

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They had some kind of "Reset" at Vital in 06, I think, so all the O.G.s are from 06 but I thought the transition was before...

They had some kind of "Reset" at Vital in 06, I think, so all the O.G.s are from 06 but I thought the transition was before that.

 

Sully wrote:
I thought Steve ported a lot of our accounts over from MotoDrive when this place first started, and that's the reason so many of us have...

I thought Steve ported a lot of our accounts over from MotoDrive when this place first started, and that's the reason so many of us have join dates in August of '06? I have a hard time remembering what I did yesterday, though, so I could be wrong about that.

yak651 wrote:

There was a switch in servers or something where everyone had to rejoin, I believe that’s why a lot of people have similar join dates

This is what I'm remembering. It seemed like we had our motodrive start dates initially. So many of us lost some O.G. cred. 🤣

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ML512 wrote:
Brad McDonald is the owner of Vital MX and Vital MTB. He was the original guy behind Transworld Motocross, was the group publisher of the Transworld...

Brad McDonald is the owner of Vital MX and Vital MTB. He was the original guy behind Transworld Motocross, was the group publisher of the Transworld media group, and founded Ride BMX magazine in 1992.

GuyB was the original Content Director for Vital MX during its inception in 2006 to the later stages of 2021. I worked at Vital MX from 2014 to the very beginning of 2019. I came back in late 2021 to take over the Director role.

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I recall something similar. My join date is 8/20/06 I remember getting an AIM message (remember those?) from GuyB with a link to join/sign up for...

I recall something similar. My join date is 8/20/06 I remember getting an AIM message (remember those?) from GuyB with a link to join/sign up for the new site. I think I was still working with Gibby at TransWorld MX at the time 

jmo443 wrote:

Aim and dial up internet. Hoping you’re parents aren’t waiting for a call so you don’t get your ass beat for tying up the line. 

brocster wrote:

Net Zero

Compuserve was my starting point in the early 90's. Dialing in at 2400 baud & talking to MX fans on a BB.

I thought we reached peak fandom when Virtual Grandstand happened. Couldn't believe we could read what was happening at a Supercross in real time (refresh!refresh!). We still had to wait until Thursday at 1am to see it on ESPN2.

I still have my original AOL email as a burner...

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I wonder what's more successful, financially and viewership wise, Vital MX or MTB? 

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OT wrote:

I wonder what's more successful, financially and viewership wise, Vital MX or MTB? 

MX is bigger.

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OT wrote:

I wonder what's more successful, financially and viewership wise, Vital MX or MTB? 

ML512 wrote:

MX is bigger.

That's interesting, and good to know. You'd think the MTB / Cycling scene would dwarf MX when it comes to online forums, etc. 

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I think I joined in the early 2000's on Mototalk when it wasn't uncommon for BobbyM to refer to people as "sperm-bearded cum guzzlers".  Good times.

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Paying member of Bushwood here.  Was worth the price of admission after winning a set of Showa A-kit suspension from the Boo Koo team. Also won the Indy SX gas card from Racer-x which provided seats in the press box and a track walk...Thanks Davey for setting up that program...would be awesome to have another fan program like that again. 

Here's an old page asking who was a member at moto talk back in the day.  Davey and even TFS show up in this old thread from 2011.

mototalk remembered thread

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WhiteTaco wrote:

I think I joined in the early 2000's on Mototalk when it wasn't uncommon for BobbyM to refer to people as "sperm-bearded cum guzzlers".  Good times.

I think you’ll find it was a “Cum-guzzling sperm beard”.


 

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WhiteTaco wrote:

I think I joined in the early 2000's on Mototalk when it wasn't uncommon for BobbyM to refer to people as "sperm-bearded cum guzzlers".  Good times.

Robgvx wrote:

I think you’ll find it was a “Cum-guzzling sperm beard”.


 

Correct, sir!

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2/17/2026 11:38am
ML512 wrote:
Brad McDonald is the owner of Vital MX and Vital MTB. He was the original guy behind Transworld Motocross, was the group publisher of the Transworld...

Brad McDonald is the owner of Vital MX and Vital MTB. He was the original guy behind Transworld Motocross, was the group publisher of the Transworld media group, and founded Ride BMX magazine in 1992.

GuyB was the original Content Director for Vital MX during its inception in 2006 to the later stages of 2021. I worked at Vital MX from 2014 to the very beginning of 2019. I came back in late 2021 to take over the Director role.

I wasn’t aware of the relationship to transworld or ride bmx. I had subscribed to transworld mx and ride bmx for many years in my younger days. Had any vhs that would come out as well. As a young kid in the middle of Wyoming that loved moto and bmx these were my only links to it. Just came full circle! Thanks for the info ML

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WhiteTaco wrote:

I think I joined in the early 2000's on Mototalk when it wasn't uncommon for BobbyM to refer to people as "sperm-bearded cum guzzlers".  Good times.

Robgvx wrote:

I think you’ll find it was a “Cum-guzzling sperm beard”.


 

And a "mouthbreather" insult somewhere in there...

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The OG BobbyM just confirmed to me by email that the correct phrase was, “sperm-bearded cum chuggler”.

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It’s think I can remember was TFS started taking off when he started posting live from all the SX races sitting up in the stands.

Kind of like is done here on Canada races.

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