About Crankfire.com

A long time ago I got a mountain bike. I liked it. I liked it a lot. Then I found myself employed by a GIS (computer mapping) company. There I learned to like maps along with a little something about web programming. Then I bought a GPS and all the puzzle pieces were there. Crankfire was born. Sort of.

The idea behind Crankfire is to create a consise, organized, community driven, completely free and easy to use repository for everything mountain bike. Basically, I wanted to it make it easy and realistic for users to bike trails entirely unfamiliar to them.

We also wanted this venture to be as "Open Source" as possible. We are not looking to "cash in", we are honestly looking to be as philanthropic as possible and really want to cater to like minded entities.

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The Foundations

We employ the following technologies here:

• We are proud be hosted on an APACHE server.
• We are entirely scripted with PHP.
• Our discussion forums are powered by the open source phpBB.
• The Silk Icons project provided us with many of the slick little icons you see everywhere.
• The Google Maps API powers many of our maps.
• The jquery javascript library mades things done on this site much easier to accomplish.

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