How Can You Help?

Monetarily

To be completely honest, we pretty much break even through our banner ad sales, forum stickies and affiliate programs - and I don't really care about the 1000's of development hours put in to make this site run.

However, it is always tight and we are have been consistently growing - so any help is appreciated. How? Well, that is easy:

• Donate Cash: Straight up throw a few dollars our way, we even have a handy Paypal link to simplify things.

• Donate Scwag: Donate some product to us! If applicable, we will write up a review, otherwise, we will do something meaningful with it apart from keeping it for ourselves!

• Shop through Crankfire: Buying something online? If you click from here to there at select stores, we get a tiny little kickback.

• Advertise with Us: We push some decent numbers here traffic-wise, and we are geographically targeted to the northeast and we are socially targeted to outdoor/sports enthusiasts.

Become a Contributing Editor

If you have a knack for writing and like to write about things mountain bike related, we would love to hear from you! We are always on the lookout for product reviews, editorials, DIY writeups, whatever!

If you are interested, drop us a line and let's talk!

Contribute!

Simply being an active member is really what makes this site work. It is designed to be built and maintained organically by you, the community. So the more trail reviews you write, the more trail reports you enter, the more bike shops you rate, the more photos you upload - well, you get the idea - it all makes everything better!

We also strive to make our data as complete as possible - this not only means making sure records are fully associated, but it also means trying to have a photo for every waypoint, GPS data for every trail - and, since we really like maps here, making sure we know where things are accurately located. This is exactly why we have a Missing Data module. Pop over and see what you can do to clean things up.

Share, Partner, Syndicate, Whatever

Do you run a website? Do you share a similar ideal that the more outlets for mountain biking can only improve mountain biking.

• Link to and from us: Most records on Crankfire have a "Related Websites" tab that you can link to your applicable website from. Or, hell, feel free to generally link to us to spread the word!

• Share a Data Feed: Do you maintain a similar geographically powered website? Maybe you have a GeoRSS or KML data feed you would like to share? Learn more here.

• Spread the Love: We provide just about all of our data right back into the community through a myriad of data feeds that you can use on your own websites! Learn more here. We also provide some 'plug and play' code that you can drop right into your website or blog.