Has Bikepro finally died?

[pete_mcc]

A minutes silence is in order I fear. Bikepro, one of the longest standing retro resources seems to have died after a long illness.

No matter how I try to get into it I just get error messages. Anyone know owt?

 

[gump]

oh sjit!

Just the other day I was thinking of copying a load of info just in case this happened.
This was a great resource.
Are there any pages cached somewhere?

 

[cchris2lou]

do we know who was running it ?

we could do a collection to buy the site and host it on here .

 

[orange71]

and lo! It liveth again!

http://web.archive.org/web/200612310349 ... kepro.com/

 

[kase1983]

aye i cant get one it either.

 

[orange71]

you have to be a bit patient with archive.org, but everything should be there. Says there's 38 pages.

 

[retrobikeguy]

had me worried for a while there

 

[orange71]

if you go to www.archive.org and type into the 'waybackmachine' the web address it'll (eventually) give you a list of everytime it took a snapshot of the site. I don't know how much duplication there is. 38 pages doesn't sound a lot. Perhaps somebody could suck the site from there for a speedier retrieval. Could some of it be posted on retrobike archive?

 

[john]

cack. was only looking at it earlier this evening.

If someone can get the code will be more than happy to host it on here somewhere...

 

[pinguwin]

Perhaps somebody could suck the site from there

I hear that someone, I'm not sure who, might have sucked it up a few years ago. So, if a moderator is interested, PM me.

Also, the whois info on the site:

Tel. +001.7075280910

Creation Date: 16-Apr-1995
Expiration Date: 17-Apr-2008

Maybe someone should give him a call and ask. The domain is paid up until April, so it's possible he forgot to pay his isp, who knows.

'Guin