Archive for October, 2011

Vital @ Interbike 2011

by Patrick Male

The Vital BMX and Vital MTB crews were at Interbike this year sniffing out all the sweet new products that will be out in 2012. Our audiences enjoyed daily updates from the show via videos, photo galleries, and featured slideshows. Click the links below to check out some of the standout brands and products from the show.

Vital BMX 2011 Interbike Coverage

Vital MTB 2011 Interbike Coverage

Vital MTB Ends Season With Record High Traffic

by Patrick Male

The Vital MTB audience continues to grow like crazy, with more than 291,000 unique visitors coming to the site in September. This represents 24% growth in traffic since the beginning of the 2011 season in March, and 102% growth from September of last year. Thanks to our advertisers, fans, and users around the world for the continued support!

Vital MTB Monthly Unique Visitors - September 2011

2011 Vital BMX Game of BIKE

by Brad McDonald

The second-annual Vital BMX Game of BIKE went down last Saturday at the Vans Skatepark in Orange, CA. To say the riding was incredible would be an understatement (watch the videos and see for yourself). Seeing heavyweight pros like Dave Dilleward, Dennis Enarson, and Ryan Guettler going head-to-head against up-and-comers like Stevie Churchill, Kyle Baldock, Devon Smillie, and Chad Kerley was awesome.
Our goals from day-one for Game of BIKE have been to put on a fun and different type of event for the riders, and raise money and awareness for the Athlete Recovery Fund. Both were definitely accomplished.

Key Stats:

  • 28 top pros competed
  • 17,000 people watched the two-hour live webcast of the final rounds
  • $8,300 was raised for ARF (including $500 Chad Kerley donated from his prize money)
  • $9,800 was paid to riders
  • 4,201 user comments submitted during the webcast (1,325 of which were blocked)
  • 1,024 Game of BIKE related Tweets were made during the event

Vans was the presenting sponsor, along with Haro, Dan’s Comp, Go Pro, MovieTickets.com, and Pro Tec. Without their support, the event would not have happened. We also had many volunteers who generously donated their time — thanks.

See the results and all the videos here (final rounds go up tomorrow): http://www.vitalbmx.com/videos/gameofbike2011

Left to right: Stevie Churchill (2nd place), Chad Kerley (1st), Devon Smillie (3rd)

Dennis Enarson

Webcast crew