I miss Mike

[jpswift1]

I saw this thread and had to chime in. When Mike ran the site, it was GREAT! That's when AATVs were in the prime (post 1970's when the original AATV boom occurred). I'll add a little bit of history and some stories to this topic as well.

Mike and I originally met when we were talking about AATVs on Myspace.com. Then one day when I was in class during one of my last semesters of college I got an email from Mike saying that he was starting a 6 wheeler website called 6X6World.com. I was absolutely thrilled that a new website for AATVs was up and running instead of that "other" one that sold overpriced parts and deleted messages on their message board when they didn't like the people that posted them. I knew from day 1 that 6x6World was going to grow to overshadow that "other" site and become the biggest and best site on the Internet. I started spreading the word to all of my friends, and everyone jumped on board. More and more people got on board and not long after Mike started the site, it did in fact became the biggest and best AATV site on the Internet. I met so many great new friends on here too. The friends, the stories, the rides, repairs, builds, races, parts bought, sold, traded and transported, the tech support, and good times were some of the best years of my life. Mike and Whipper and Bridget and the Fischer's even got AATV racing back up and running at Pine Lake after a decades long hiatus. This group of people that helped revive the sport are like family to me and I will always be grateful to have met them even though we don't see each other as much as we used to.

There are so many great stories I'd love to share about what we did on the site and at the rides, races, etc. Let's take a trip down memory lane and share some of them with everyone! Please, all of the folks that have been here on 6x6World from way back when, please chime in. Let's hear some good ones!!!

[techfx]

I saw this thread and had to chime in. When Mike ran the site, it was GREAT! That's when AATVs were in the prime (post 1970's when the original AATV boom occurred). I'll add a little bit of history and some stories to this topic as well.

Mike and I originally met when we were talking about AATVs on Myspace.com. Then one day when I was in class during one of my last semesters of college I got an email from Mike saying that he was starting a 6 wheeler website called 6X6World.com. I was absolutely thrilled that a new website for AATVs was up and running instead of that "other" one that sold overpriced parts and deleted messages on their message board when they didn't like the people that posted them. I knew from day 1 that 6x6World was going to grow to overshadow that "other" site and become the biggest and best site on the Internet. I started spreading the word to all of my friends, and everyone jumped on board. More and more people got on board and not long after Mike started the site, it did in fact became the biggest and best AATV site on the Internet. I met so many great new friends on here too. The friends, the stories, the rides, repairs, builds, races, parts bought, sold, traded and transported, the tech support, and good times were some of the best years of my life. Mike and Whipper and Bridget and the Fischer's even got AATV racing back up and running at Pine Lake after a decades long hiatus. This group of people that helped revive the sport are like family to me and I will always be grateful to have met them even though we don't see each other as much as we used to.

There are so many great stories I'd love to share about what we did on the site and at the rides, races, etc. Let's take a trip down memory lane and share some of them with everyone! Please, all of the folks that have been here on 6x6World from way back when, please chime in. Let's hear some good ones!!!

I didn't know the Myspace part of it before. I ran in to Whipper from the other site and was pointed to here around 2007? I remember finding Pine Lake on Google Earth and hinting at (wonder if we could run at the track again?) in a post. Things were pretty intense maybe 2007-13ish it seemed. Now that we're down a manufacturer of smaller, cheaper machines and parts are getting a little trickier to find ( looking for alternatives for Goodyear Compass knobbies for racing and not as many cheap old bodies around), I wonder if we'll get back to that.

[ARGOJIM]

I saw this thread and had to chime in. When Mike ran the site, it was GREAT! That's when AATVs were in the prime (post 1970's when the original AATV boom occurred). I'll add a little bit of history and some stories to this topic as well.

Mike and I originally met when we were talking about AATVs on Myspace.com. Then one day when I was in class during one of my last semesters of college I got an email from Mike saying that he was starting a 6 wheeler website called 6X6World.com. I was absolutely thrilled that a new website for AATVs was up and running instead of that "other" one that sold overpriced parts and deleted messages on their message board when they didn't like the people that posted them. I knew from day 1 that 6x6World was going to grow to overshadow that "other" site and become the biggest and best site on the Internet. I started spreading the word to all of my friends, and everyone jumped on board. More and more people got on board and not long after Mike started the site, it did in fact became the biggest and best AATV site on the Internet. I met so many great new friends on here too. The friends, the stories, the rides, repairs, builds, races, parts bought, sold, traded and transported, the tech support, and good times were some of the best years of my life. Mike and Whipper and Bridget and the Fischer's even got AATV racing back up and running at Pine Lake after a decades long hiatus. This group of people that helped revive the sport are like family to me and I will always be grateful to have met them even though we don't see each other as much as we used to.

There are so many great stories I'd love to share about what we did on the site and at the rides, races, etc. Let's take a trip down memory lane and share some of them with everyone! Please, all of the folks that have been here on 6x6World from way back when, please chime in. Let's hear some good ones!!!

Good to see you stop in, figured you may have been lurking occasionally. You were a large part of the reply conversations for a long time.

Hope all is well.