Riding Arizona - A Timeline

[Shannon]

1/10/2001 - Greg Burns buys 20+ topo maps from the Public Lands Information Center (PLIC) covering every nook and cranny of the state of Arizona.

1/16/2001 - Greg sits down with Shannon Wilson to study the maps to find legal places to ride.

1/28/2001 - Shannon and Greg become frustrated with the lack of specific OHV riding information in print or on the Internet for the state of Arizona. The decision is made to do something about it.

2/12/2001 - Shannon places calls into Arizona State Parks & Game and Fish to discuss legal riding opportunities in the state.

2/26/2001 - Conversations with State Parks become fruitful and a relationship is established with Terry Heslin, Senior Planner.

3/20/2001 - Shannon participates in the Arizona State Parks OHV marketing campaign at Cooley Advertising. He is one of two OHVers invited. The other is Tom Bickauskas, former Arizona Trail Riders officer. The outcome of the meeting is the: Nature Rules - Stay on the trails campaign.

4/18/2001 - The domain RidingArizona.com is purchased

4/28/2001 - RidingArizona.com is hosted with Adaptive.net and the development of the forum begins.

5/2/2001 - Shannon offers to host on the Riding Arizona web site an OHV EIS letter generator to facilitate feedback for the Arizona National Forest policy regarding unrestricted vehicle access. The letter generator goes live on 5/8/2001 and over 200 letters are generated by 5/16/2001.

5/16/2001 - Shannon shoots Arizona State Parks commercial for new Nature Rules - Stay on the trails campaign. He is the golfing partner for the main character.

6/26/2001 - Development of the Riding Arizona web site continues.

8/20/2001 - Web site development has progressed enough to start marketing the Riding Arizona site.

9/7/2001 - Riding Arizona membership reaches 50 members.

9/23/2001 - Riding Arizona membership reaches 100 members.

12/12/2001 - Riding Arizona membership reaches 500 members.

2/17/2002 - Riding Arizona membership reaches 1000 members!

4/29/2002 - Riding Arizona membership reaches 1500 members!

7/23/2002 - Riding Arizona membership reaches 2000 members!

4/14/2003 - Riding Arizona membership reaches 3000 members!

8/10/2003 - Riding Arizona deletes 400+ member accounts that are inactive and have invalid email addresses.

10/26/2003 - Riding Arizona membership reaches 4000 members!

03/08/2004 - Riding Arizona membership reaches 5000 members!

04/11/2006 - Riding Arizona membership reaches 10000 members! ROCKCRAWLER is the 10,000th member.



Mr. Shannon (Shannon@RidingArizona.com)
President - Riding Arizona
2001 Honda 400EX - Yes, I ride it like I stole it!!!

[SLOW RIDER 2]

lots of hard work there thank you guys!!!

[Lumpy rides]

It's Great to be a part of Riding Arizona, never a
lack of riding.:D

[mookee]

It takes great leadership to get as far as you have with something like this. You've done well Mr. Shannon, and from the short time I've been on the site, you keep providing good leadership (as do several others). Excellent website! Thanks!!:D

[Shannon]

Party time.....on April 11th, 2006 RA amassed its 10,000th member! The 10,000th member honor goes to Rockcrawler!

[cutedunebunnie]

Im sure glad you started this website! It has been very helpful and it is my favorite off road websites online! I think I might like it even more than Myspace.....:out :P

[Dentless]

Wow! 6 1/2 year old threads. Sweet!

[2Txns]

This is the type of website that I have been looking for ever since I bought my Kawasaki Teryx, back in Feb. '09. Thank you and we look forward to meeting and riding with the members of this great website.

[ex400]

Shannon it must be time to update the timeline. Surely there must be some more milestones since 2006. such as AZgrizz amassing obscene amounts of fuel points, Wells making so many new friends,RDO's first world acclaimed safety video ,Old time racers new Book" Hunting Nasty poisonous creatures with a pocket knife for Dummies", finding out that Rattlesnakes will save the world and are quite tasty as well .etc..etc..

[buggydave]

Wow!
It looks like I was one of the first 50 members?
My how time flys!

[Shannon]

You are correct EX400....time to update this thread. Time flies, for sure. It was just yesterday I was talking to Gmoney about how we were going to find some new riding buddies using this thing called a forum.

[Arizona Griz]

Originally Posted by ex400

Shannon it must be time to update the timeline. Surely there must be some more milestones since 2006. such as AZgrizz amassing obscene amounts of fuel points, Wells making so many new friends,RDO's first world acclaimed safety video ,Old time racers new Book" Hunting Nasty poisonous creatures with a pocket knife for Dummies", finding out that Rattlesnakes will save the world and are quite tasty as well .etc..etc..

Time does change a lot of things.

Many members and ideas have come and gone, not me though, with new ones filling their shoes.

[Rockapotamus]

Shannon,

The site looks great, I have not been on it for a long time, it sure has come a long way. I have a lot of great memories of some the big camp outs RA used to have at Ocotillo Wells, MM 11.5, the Rolls, etc... My kids kind of lost interest in riding and I don't ride as much as I would like to, bikes sit in the garage collecting dust. I recognize some of the names on RA , a lot of new people. It's nice to see how commited you and Greg are to keeping this forum alive. I hope you and your family are well.

Brian Dodge

[sshipley]

This site is fantastic. All I was looking for was some trails to ride when I came across RA. It is obvious there is alot more here. I still need learn more like, what is the "fuel" thing? and can I become a vip member without a credit card?

sshipley

[rufus]

Wow I've been a member since feb 2002