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[AlexMcRee]

I just clicked on my bookmark for that website I use to go to it and it took me to some surfing vacation website? What gives? Hoop did you break them by covering a WORCS race better?

[hoop]

AlexMcRee, on 16 February 2012 - 11:07 AM, said:

I just clicked on my bookmark for that website I use to go to it and it took me to some surfing vacation website? What gives? Hoop did you break them by covering a WORCS race better?

I noticed the same thing this morning! Not sure if they accidentally let their domain expire, if they got hacked, or maybe your theory is correct?

[hoop]

When I saw that the first thing I did was go to vurboffroad.com to see if they had decided to launch that overnight... But, nah..

[MtnBoy]

Who knows, their coverage has been pretty sparse lately anyway, I wouldn't be surprised to see that site slowly fade away, sucks but that's the way it goes sometimes. Good on them for everything they've done to this point.

When I typed in the address just now it took me to a Topar Racing site.

[hoop]

Yeah, I'm getting the Topar site now as well. Not sure what the deal is... I thought they would've made the move to Vurb Off-Road by now since they announced that a few weeks ago so I'm really not sure what is up.

[hoop]

AlexMcRee, on 16 February 2012 - 11:07 AM, said:

I just clicked on my bookmark for that website I use to go to it and it took me to some surfing vacation website? What gives? Hoop did you break them by covering a WORCS race better?

Just saw they updated the Topar site that it forwards to now with this note:

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After years publishing content as Offroad-Journal, we are turning in a new direction and will be hosting offroad content from around the world here on our new Topar Racing site. We have created a “Films and Feature Stories” section that will house a mix of videos and athlete blogs from east to west, with a heavy dose of regional content exclusive to Topar Racing. We will be hosting a mix of content from our friends at Digital Offroad, Offroad Viking, Offroad Junkies, and Vurb and will be solid resource for regional race news and event information from the Rocky Mountain region. We encourage you to send us links to videos and helmet cam offering as we would love to share the media with our readers.
We thank you for the support over the years at Offroad Journal and welcome you to our new platform. Be sure to check out our video player as it’s one of the largest offerings in offroad and allows for a great viewing experience.
Welcome to Topar Racing!

[AlexMcRee]

If seems like offroadjunkies is heading that way as well. Nothing new in a while. Sucks. We still have east coast off-road coverage on the up and up though with this site. But worcs and h&h might be slacking now with them gone. Hoop you going to get a west coast correspondent? I assume flying out all the time would be expensive.

[hoop]

Yeah, I worked out a deal with Joe Colombero while I was out at the WORCS for race reports and photos from them as well as interviews with riders. Also working on a deal for H&H coverage with Mark Kariya...

[AlexMcRee]

hoop, on 20 February 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

Yeah, I worked out a deal with Joe Colombero while I was out at the WORCS for race reports and photos from them as well as interviews with riders. Also working on a deal for H&H coverage with Mark Kariya...

I'm liking what I'm hearing. What's the outlook on you for the National Enduros? Just the southern rounds?

[MtnBoy]

hoop, on 20 February 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

Yeah, I worked out a deal with Joe Colombero while I was out at the WORCS for race reports and photos from them as well as interviews with riders. Also working on a deal for H&H coverage with Mark Kariya...

That's good news! More coverage is always better!

Hopefully Joe will give you something else besides the report they post on the WORCS site that then gets passed around, the more write ups the better!

[hoop]

AlexMcRee, on 20 February 2012 - 08:10 PM, said:

I'm liking what I'm hearing. What's the outlook on you for the National Enduros? Just the southern rounds?

I'm really hoping to go to all of the National Enduros. Right now the deal was to do the first three for Alan and Jack with the AirGroup and see how it went. Hopefully they're happy with the videos and will help us get to the rest of the rounds!

[Mike Honcho]

I hope you can make it to all of them Hoop. Your coverage has been awesome. I can't wait to hit up the Rattlesnake.

[hoop]

Looks like they finally launched vurboffroad.com. It'll be interesting to see if they're able to put the same effort into the off-road stuff that they do to mx and sx.

[Bolt-On]

AlexMcRee, on 16 February 2012 - 09:35 PM, said:

If seems like offroadjunkies is heading that way as well. Nothing new in a while.

Rob basically just gave up on the site... Unfortunately for him, he has a "real" job and life. Poor sap.

[AlexMcRee]

hoop, on 22 February 2012 - 09:13 AM, said:

Looks like they finally launched vurboffroad.com. It'll be interesting to see if they're able to put the same effort into the off-road stuff that they do to mx and sx.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say doubtful. Mx is so centralized in socal which I would think makes it easier for them do all their videos.

[SirRobbieRob]

Bolt-On, on 22 February 2012 - 09:56 AM, said:

Rob basically just gave up on the site... Unfortunately for him, he has a "real" job and life. Poor sap.

haha "gave up" sounds so bad. I never intended to re-launch ORJ as it was, more podcast related stuff. I developed a small chip on my shoulder that powered the small resurgence but it quickly faded and I was left with 0 interest in running a website anymore, which was a big reason orj merged with digi. ORJ was something that worked at the time because everyone behind just clicked.

With the viking and digi there's more than enough awesome quality content to keep the sport covered. Adding vurb into the mix will hopefully be a good thing. I was excited when they announced it but I thought it would be more than just the offroad journal under a new name. I say this as a fan of the sport, and not because of my work for ORJ (The original) and digi, the journal was a downright terrible website. The videos from Bolling and Watson were great but I didn't think it had anything else going for it. I hope Vurb has some standards in place that greatly improves on what the journal was doing.

[Bolt-On]

SirRobbieRob, on 22 February 2012 - 06:06 PM, said:

haha "gave up" sounds so bad.

I know. I worded it like that on purpose...
Actually, I'm just kidding.

[SirRobbieRob]

Bolt-On, on 22 February 2012 - 06:16 PM, said:

I know. I worded it like that on purpose...
Actually, I'm just kidding.

I know this maaaannn

[AlexMcRee]

SirRobbieRob, on 22 February 2012 - 06:06 PM, said:

haha "gave up" sounds so bad. I never intended to re-launch ORJ as it was, more podcast related stuff. I developed a small chip on my shoulder that powered the small resurgence but it quickly faded and I was left with 0 interest in running a website anymore, which was a big reason orj merged with digi. ORJ was something that worked at the time because everyone behind just clicked.

With the viking and digi there's more than enough awesome quality content to keep the sport covered. Adding vurb into the mix will hopefully be a good thing. I was excited when they announced it but I thought it would be more than just the offroad journal under a new name. I say this as a fan of the sport, and not because of my work for ORJ (The original) and digi, the journal was a downright terrible website. The videos from Bolling and Watson were great but I didn't think it had anything else going for it. I hope Vurb has some standards in place that greatly improves on what the journal was doing.

I completely see where you are coming from.