Some have heard me talk about the Motocross Track Locator I have been working on. I have even mentioned it here on SRR.com. But what I haven’t done is explain to the wonderful readers of SRR what the locator does for people.

Mainly, the locator is going to allow dirt riders (MX, Trails, SX, & ATV) to find tracks within a given distance to a given zip code. For instance, I live in 78664. I can use this zip code to perform a search for tracks within 10, 25,50,100,250 miles. The closest track to me is Austin-Del Valle MX Park at 25 miles.

Another use would be for riders planning a vacation. If anyone out there is like myself, I want to take a vacation that includes hitting up as many different riding spots as possible. My destination of choice would be California. So assuming I know where in California I am going to be, I could plugin the zip code or city and find the closest tracks. Man! I can’t wait to hit up Cali for some riding.

I hope that is a clear explanation of it.

Moving on, I think it’s fair to say that the Motocross Track Locator is finished. We currently have over a 120 track listed from around the U.S. These are all ones that we have hunted down and manually entered. I’m sure there are a ton of tracks that are not listed. Unfortunately, many tracks websites don’t list the physical address of the track, just a dinky map that is very useless for people that don’t know the area.

Alev and I will continue to add tracks that we find. We are hoping that track owners will find the tool and realize how useful it will be for them and riders.

If any track owners happen upon this site and would like their track added to the locator please send an email with the details (name, physical address, website, phone #, and anything else you can think of) of the track to locator@mxconnection.net.

Peace Out.

Since riding has been a rare thing lately, I have been trying to get some of my web projects back in motion. The main one that I am working on is The Motocross Connection.

Currently I am using the CMS Geeklog as the backend for the MXC. I may be changing this very shortly as I have not been very satisfied with the support from that community. I am trying to put together a MX Park Locator geeklog plugin but some aspects of it are way over my head. I posted to the geeklog forums and the only response I received was from a douche in Stockholm saying he would help me for “several thousand dollars”. LOL! Many of the users in the community act like they don’t want anyone else to have the knowledge they might. If that is the way it is then Geeklog is going to die off. I am going try to work with it a little more. If I don’t start to gain any ground I will most likely move to Subdreamer or VBulletin with VbAdvanced CMPS. Both of these seem to handle building a online community better that Geeklog.

If you have visited redslush.com before, you will notice that I have once again changed the page. Previously, I was using a blog backend called typo. The main reason I went with it was because it was built using Ruby on Rails. But the application is far from being usable. I may revisit it in the near future. Now the site is running on Drupal. I have dabbed with it in the past and was impressed.

As soon as I make some headway with mxconnection.net, I will start working on my other projects like the Online Cookbook using RoR, theswalls, and many others I haven’t started.

Peace out!