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2011 Off Road Expo Photos

admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:58:24 +0000

For two days each year, off road racing’s elite drivers, builders, sponsors and fans gather at the Fairplex in Pomona, CA for what most view as the one annual go-to event in the off road racing community. This year’s Expo was no exception to that rule, with some of the highlights as follows.

Lucas Oil off-road racing exhibition course (short course trucks)
Yamaha ATV/UTV demo track
Over 300 off-road vendors selling the latest in aftermarket performance
FMX motorcycle stunt teams throwing down the sport’s top tricks
Celebrity appearances by BJ Baldwin, Brian Deegan, Shannon Campbell, Walker Evans, Carl Renezeder and more.
Dirt Theatre – debuting the new Mint 400 video (out soon via iTunes and digital download) and the new Desert People 9 video (now available on DVD and Blu-Ray).
Miss Off-Road Expo contest
Hundreds of new products being seen for the first time

Although the total surface area of the show was down slightly from last year, the spectator count was larger than expected. Almost every building stayed packed both days and left of the vendors with overwhelming expectations for what the remainder of 2011 and the entire year of 2012 has to hold for aftermarket and recreational sales.

One of the highlights for me each year at the Expo is to walk around and snap photos of some of the amazing fabrication on display. With fabrication shops such as Camburg, Campbell Enterprises, Jagged X, and a many more on hand, there was no shortage of metal magic. As I type this on the plane ride home back to Alabama, I can’t help but be eager to get back in the shop and put all of this inspiration into practice. Oh wait, I don’t have the time or talent to pull that off. Maybe one day…

We also saw some big announcements around the 2012 King of the Hammers race as well as the announcement that SXSPerformance.com will be the title sponsor for the 2010 King of the Hammers UTV race. Also worth mentioning, the ISA (International Side By Side Association) will be the sanctioning body for the 2012 KOH UTV race.

Special thanks goes out to Lucas Oil for headlining this year’s event. Lucas Oil is making their presence known in the industry by formulating top quality lubricants and protectants as well as putting their money where their mouth is by sponsoring this and many, many other major events. With their help, the entire motorsports industry has weathered most of the down economy for the past few years. We should all remember that the next time we’re in a position to buy lubricants for our toys and our transportation.

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ECORS – Round 3 – Carolina Crawlin’

brit — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:40:47 +0000

We’ll have a full write up coming soon, but I wanted to go ahead get the photos out there.

It was another great event put on by the ECORS staff. These guys really care about the competitors and the series and it shows. I can’t wait for the next one in Silver Valley, NC.

NASCAR at Texas Motor Speedway

brit — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:46:43 +0000

Arctic Cat invited a handful of editors from print and websites within the ATV industry to Texas Motor Speedway for a new model introduction. Octane Media was fortunate enough to represent ATVScene.com at this event. While there in Dallas, we had two full days of riding the new Arctic Cat ATV and UTV lineup (coverage to come on ATVScene.com) and we also attended the NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway. Below are some photos from this event.

WordPress for Golden Mountain Park

brit — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:05:19 +0000

Golden Mountain Park is no stranger to the off road community. If you have ever seen an episode of Xtreme 4×4 where they field tested a vehicle, it was most likely at Golden Mountain Park. From mild fire road trails to extreme rock crawling and even mud bogging, GMP has it all. It was an honor to be contacted by the owners of the park to help them better market their park online. The requirements fit perfectly with WordPress. We worked with the staff to develop a custom theme and information strategy that is surely to help attract more visitors to the park. It will also help them get new information out to their patrons in a quick and cost effective manor. The new site can be seen at http://www.GoldenMountainParkLLC.com.

WordPress for AnkleSavers.com

brit — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:53:30 +0000

I was contacted by Tom Crain of Ankle-Savers™ about improving the website for his new product. He has an innovative product that maintains a very high level of simplicity. The website needed to reflect those product features. The main goals of this project were: high impact, simple (one page if possible), show product through video. See for yourself if you think these goals were accomplished – AnkleSavers.com.

Free Website Winner Announced

brit — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:14:15 +0000

Octane Media is proud to announce the winner of our Free Website Offer is MX for Children of Woodinville, WA. It is an honor for us to work with an organization that gives back so unselfishly.

MX for Children’s Mission:
Our vision is to create a replicable, sustainable charitable donation program for Children’s’ hospitals across the country that draws on the popularity of motocross locally to build a grass roots giving campaign that feeds into larger annual fund raising events centered around a premium experience at the AMA Supercross stop in a hospital’s local city.

MX for Children’s Recent Success
For the 2007—2009 racing seasons over $350,000 has been raised at MX for Children events. For 2009, SX events were held in Houston, Toronto and Seattle.

Octane Media is excited about the opportunity to donate our services to such a worthwhile organization. We are looking forward to making a positive impact by helping them help others.

For more information on Octane Media, please visit our Media Kit page. Please visit the Free Website Offer page for more information on the program.

2009 Gray Rock XRRA Photos

brit — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:36:38 +0000

Seeing that the XRRA was going to be so close to my home town, I couldn’t pass up the chance to go out and see it. It was a great event, especially since some of the rain held off. It could have been much worse.

More information about this event:

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ATVA GNC MX at Mill Creek, Photos

brit — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:50:53 +0000

I was at the Mill Creek round of the 2009 ATVA GNC MX series and snapped a few pictures. Follow the link to see all of the photos.

Date: March 22, 2009
Track: Mill Creek Motocross
Location: Pell City, AL
More race information: http://www.atvmotocross.com/articles/1022_wimmer-unstoppable-at-millcreek

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HutterPerformance.com Now Live

brit — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:25:03 +0000

The new Hutter Performance website is now live!

Project Details: http://www.octanemedia.com/projects/hutter-performance/

Visit Site: http://www.HutterPerformance.com

Faith Racers Ministry WordPress

brit — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:31:10 +0000

The brain child of Andre Pene, the Faith Racers ministry has grown into a vital asset for motocross events all over the Southeast. Andre prepares monthly “Life Lessons” that often relate to the sport of motocross. The impact that this ministry is having on the MX racing scene is apparent at ecah event.

Andre contacted us in hopes of getting a quick website built that looked good, wasn’t overly expensive and was easy to update. Enter, WordPress, the same software on which our OctaneMedia.com site is built. The site was deployed onto a Linux server with PHP5 and utilizing MySQL for data. The entire site, graphics and all was deployed within a week, keeping costs low.