A triumphant return

May 15, 2009 | Posted by: Geof Harries

It was almost five years ago that I bought the domain name, bikeyukon.com. Before my purchase, bikeyukon.com was languishing in the hands of another Yukoner who probably had great intentions for it, but never did bring the domain to life with a proper website.

I, on the other hand, did. Or at least, so I imagined. As I’ll explain below. a lot has happened in my life over the past five years: kids, running a business, fishing.

The first year of my bikeyukon.com ownership, I put some serious effort into developing a website that, if I do say so myself, looked hot and had some good starter information.

Also, yellow.

Knowledge about the new website grew rapidly. People talked about it in bike shops, at cafes and on the trail. Many folks asked me if they could help out in any way; perhaps contribute photos, write trail reports, post information about upcoming events and so on. Clearly, there was a need for a website like bikeyukon.com in the local community.

Well, as it turns out, all that enthusiasm fell on deaf ears. Mine, to be precise. With a new baby in our midst, I didn’t have time to sleep, let alone maintain a website such as this one. Sadly, like some other areas of my life (e.g. fitness and health) bikeyukon.com died a slow and painful death. For nearly two years now, bikeyukon.com has been home to a blank placeholder page with nary a logo or line of text in sight.

Then last summer, everything changed.

Ah, last summer. I finally started riding my bike(s) again on a regular basis. And when you ride a mountain bike on Whitehorse trails, you run into lots of people. On a certain night, I ran into Mark Koepke, who, as he known to do, heckled me about the lameness of bikeyukon.com. Mark said he wanted to contribute; to bring the website back to life. Huh, I thought. With my kids now a little older, I could actually make it happen.

And so, here we are: bikeyukon.com is back.

Mark and myself will initially be running the website. He’ll be publishing new content and I’ll be adding features. We’re kicking things off with a simple journal, but more is coming.

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