TrevorBodogh Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 Hello Biketrials community!I’m Trevor Bodogh, from Ontario, Canada. I have been riding Biketrials for most of my life, now Biketrials is at the point where we all need to make a move.. In a way, a big one, to help keep Biketrials alive, to gain exposure, and to move onward and upward!I am going to present you all with an outstanding option, as my contribution to our sport.BIKETRIALS – ONLY YOUTUBEI am trying to come up with ideas to launch a video website, sort of a combination of youtube / myspace / facebook where it would be strictly for Biketrials. It’s extremely difficult to find all of our video’s we have put out in the past, and share them with friends, family, and sponsors.It’s difficult to categorize all of our best moments of video in competitions, casual riding, photo shoots, and events into certain sections, and upload images as well all in one space and possibly have merchandise discounted for persons in our sportThis site would serve such purpose!I’ve been trying to gain exposure for a long time as well as many of us have. You may have seen my latest adventures in Europe (Paris/Scotland/World Trials Championships 2007) ….http://trevor.bodogh@picturepush.com, or various video’s I have put out on the web. But its sometimes difficult for people to either find me or download the video, because it’s corrupt, popups, bandwidth or whatever else. We have ALL had these problems.. As you may also know I have been developing / testing and assisting with Canadian Biketrials bike / frame & parts manufacturer, META Bike and I wanted to combine everything into one complete website, featuringa webstore products, special deals, new releases, and other information for the websites members and the biketrials community.So far, this is what I have in terms of features and I would greatly appreciate any feedback, as hopefully this will be a highly used website by many of us on daily basis.You would quite obviously gain great exposure for all of your specialized skills, whether you are a madd sidehopper, hook-master, or you think you can gap the farthest in the world, perhaps even beat Vincent Hermance next year...???!The features being presented to date are: • Full screen and uninterrupted videos• User, Video searching• Fast video delivery - because we wouldn’t have millions like youtube, just thousands• Uploading of Videos up to 100 megs and automatic conversion from your mov, avi, swf, mpeg file.• Create albums and put unlimited images in each one• Easy navigation, no scrolling• Will work on Macs & Windows and most browsers• Discussion board(s)• Video/picture commenting• Pro section - information on the World's best riders, what they do when not riding, how they got into riding, their influences, their strengths and weaknesses, goals for the future, media section on them) - If the site is a success, we can do this in the future.. When I can afford it.. haha!• Video Genres - sidehops, gaps, taps, hooks, competition, county, city, , craziest trials moves, bails..)• Create online profiles, with email, and live chat capabilities• Site Rewards System, uploading images, commenting, contests all give you points and hopefully I can get sponsors to give away some prizes• Enter in contests for actual prizes from site sponsors, etc• Spotlight Riders…Biographies• Some other stuff that I was promised, but they’ll come if I get some more $$Is that not insane or what! ALL FOR BIKETRIALS!!! I will have a prototype sometime in the next few weeks and I’d like some beta testers that would like to upload their best, finalized videos to the site and some images. Things id like tips on… • What type of registration information do we all want to enter, since it will be displayed when we’re searching for other members.• Whats the Max image size I should cap it at, the site is free, so I don’t want people uploading 5 meg images, when a 500K looks just as good.• Any ideas on the Names of The GENRES for the videos? I listed some above…• What type of colors should I use for the site? I’d like to create a section for the TOP Biketrial riders. Who is considered as a TOP rider.. Some categories I have come up with are:• Top national / international / event rankings• The most viewed riders• Present & previous World Champions• Any other criteria??I’ll be adding these individually and contacting people and creating their demo accounts first, if anyone would like to be considered, please message me and I’ll need a zipped file with 10 – 30 of your best images and maybe up to 5 videos, and I’ll lead you through it. Please reply with details, suggestions, and comments!Thank you for reading!!!-Trevor B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 (edited) Sounds like you've thoguht it through well.If you're hosting vids i think the most important thig is to have good reliable and fast download speeds. That's all you need for people to use you site, then it'll only escelate from there on.Trials-shack was around a while ago and was an excellent site that hosted trials vids but Simon just couldn't afford to keep it running. I'm sure he'll post up befor long. Edited November 4, 2007 by JT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trial-biker-ryan Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 Wow. awsome idea Full Steam Ahead... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 This is exactly where i wanted to take Trials-Shack. To be honest, it sounds like you've pretty much covered most areas pretty well.For registration, keep it simple, the trials community is lazy, i learnt this the hard way. Just collect basic information, name, email, location, bike, age and the other required stuff. Allow them to hide it all as well if needs be, or atleast limit it, like show age instead of actual date of birth, only friends can see your location, and so on.Images, 1mb is the standard usually, as its a niche site you could go to 1.5mb i guess, as my camera outputs at 1.2mb, but personally i'd restrict it to 800k.Think about site usability too, and so some research into colours, different colours stimulate different areas and emotions, you want to stimulate the right ones.Get a good name too, not just biketube or what ever, think of an individual name and if possible, not generic to bike trials, just makes future expansion easy if you so cross that path.Throw me a PM or something if you want further advice or some of my experiences, i ran Trials-Shack for 11 months first time around, pulled 1.4 TB of bandwidth a month and 1.1 million hits, and after 5 months the second time around i was already back to pulling 1 TB of data.Trials-Shack was a download only site though, at the same quality it was uploaded at and didn't have streaming.Good luck, it certainly isn't easy, and takes a lot of time, effort, and foremost, money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.McMillan Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 sounds like an awesome idea, would be a great website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorBodogh Posted November 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 Thank you for the replies so far..Simon, I can't seem to PM you, the message board feature won't let me.. Perhaps because I am a new member?Thanks for the statistics as well, but not to fear I have a fairly ridiculously good connection that is going to make all this happen for us.The main goal is traffic. It will show the site is good for the community, people are using it, it's worth keeping up and going forward with.. So over the next few weeks I am just going to watch these posts, and collect the info then make another post.The website name is already picked.. And it's pretty much exactly as you described it should be.I'll be in touch!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 (edited) This is exactly where i wanted to take Trials-Shack. Heh. Me too with thinkbikes.com I've got a beta of this almost ready. But everything else keeps getting in the way! Edited November 4, 2007 by Spode Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConnorPowell Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 (edited) So in a way like bebo, execpt with trials friends, i think this would be a great idea. Edited November 4, 2007 by OnzaTvee23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trix Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 It's a great idea and you have thought it through looking how long your post is... But if its exposer your going for, a private trials video site with registration surely wont be that exposed? why would someone take there time to go on there if they knew nothing about trials.. Surely you would get much more exposer to people who don't "search" for trials on youtube and other various video sites?By the way you may of spoke about these in your post, I only read the first few paragraphs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorBodogh Posted November 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2007 Is there no one from the U interested in getting in on the Beta testing for the website?It's a great idea and you have thought it through looking how long your post is... But if its exposer your going for, a private trials video site with registration surely wont be that exposed? why would someone take there time to go on there if they knew nothing about trials.. Surely you would get much more exposer to people who don't "search" for trials on youtube and other various video sites?By the way you may of spoke about these in your post, I only read the first few paragraphs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted November 7, 2007 Report Share Posted November 7, 2007 Nice idea, you may have some competition in the near future though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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