Final Countdown

For the last few months, the time I have available for developing has been spent on the relaunch of the londonbikers.com site I work on. There's a huge (from a technical perspective) effort to renew the content management system, the galleries, new features and overall appearance of the site. It's been a long time coming, but I think it should be here in about a month or so.

A lot of things are coming together and we'll see a load of new features on the LB site over the next few months, but as soon as this project is done, I'll be straight onto another project we've got planned. I can't say any more on this as it's still in the conceptual stage, but from a developers point of view, it's juicy and shouldn't be a behemoth like the LB one.

Operations wise, LB is now consistently pumping out about 100k unique readers a month over the winter period, which is impressive considering bikers generally run out of steam and have nothing more to say about biking over the winter months and that the site is running only on word-of-mouth promotion. Traffic should surge over the next few months as the weather heats up and the new site gets promoted, both physically and online.

More extensive racing coverage is planned for this year, with agreements in place with Dorna. Our photojournalists are itching to get out to the meets now that we've secured full access for entire seasons rather than by running things on an ad-hoc basis. This has taken a lot of work to secure and the photographers have invested in some seriously professional equipment. I can't wait to see the miracles they perform!

The team's growing, the weight is being distributed, but we're looking for a partner to come on board and help us take this ship to the next level. If you have investment and/or business development interests and experience, then please, speak to us, there's a hugely passionate team here looking for the right person to join us and create something truly special in the motorcycle space. We also need *nix/.net developers for a number of stand-alone projects that we've got planned... These won't be volunteer roles, so if you're curious, speak to me.