The next chapter in the 2013 Raffle Trike

[Billy Golightly]

A gorgeous breathtaking bike. Built by and from , amazing people. Regardless of how many wheels they prefer under them. Turned into THIS. BY WHO ? This beautiful masterpiece of history , built to PERFECTION from Swinehart , Mosh ,and whoever else contributed. Ends up in the hands. Actually in the HOME, of someone in my mind . Absolutely 100% Undeserving. And I don't care about how many beer guzzlin " Buds " of his want to disagree. In ANY,,and I MEAN ,, ANY Other organization on this earth,Mods,and family of mods would have been disallowed from winning this. Where THIS much money was raised. Mosh, you and the team that built this deserve NOTHING but admiration and praise. And I along with MANY others Thank you. How in Gods name are we to have ANY RULES WHATSOEVER in a forum when a Mod DOES THIS??? This is not a " Joke".. Wow. Great thread Xowner. The more we post,the harder he's laughing. I am sickened by this entire mess,and Sure HOPE very valuable lessons have been learned here.

Undeserving, how?

[atc007]

http://www.3wheelerworld.com/showthr...3-Raffle-Trike

And he is a mod here.

To the families of the names on that seat.

This is not a joke.

It was sickening,disrespectful,and should not be allowed.

[Billy Golightly]

I guess I'm just an emotionally detached a-hole that doesn't get the hoopla.

It was a practical joke, something funny. I don't know all the guys on the seat, but I knew a couple of them, and I think they are laughing their asses off at all this, shaking their heads and saying "That was a good one". Thats my impression and understanding of those guys that I knew. If anything, to me, its a very fitting thing to happen because I can envision ANY of the guys I knew on the seat doing this same thing and laughing their tails off the entire time.

At Ronnie's memorial ride there were bits of his ash's put into the Mantis fuel tank that carried the remainder of his ashes over to the hills he use to climb all the time back in the day. Was that disrespectful? To someone that didn't know him, I guess it could be. But that was his personality, that's just how he was...it's like one final prank...

I'm not speaking for or behalf of anyone on the seat, or their families, but that's how *I* feel about the guys on there that I did know. I guess everyone is entitled to an opinion.

[IKE-Z]

Ruth went out of her way to be nice to me at trikfefest. Happy that a good person won it.

[ATC-Eric]

I guess I'm just an emotionally detached a-hole that doesn't get the hoopla.

It was a practical joke, something funny. I don't know all the guys on the seat, but I knew a couple of them, and I think they are laughing their asses off at all this, shaking their heads and saying "That was a good one". Thats my impression and understanding of those guys that I knew. If anything, to me, its a very fitting thing to happen because I can envision ANY of the guys I knew on the seat doing this same thing and laughing their tails off the entire time.



I'm not speaking for or behalf of anyone on the seat, or their families, but that's how *I* feel about the guys on there that I did know. I guess everyone is entitled to an opinion.

Im with Billy on this one all the way. Everyone should know better then to think Honnerlaw would part this out. C'mon people. It was a good one, I would have done the same thing!

And undeserving? I just don't understand your position on that atc007. He put it in is house man! How much more respect can you POSSIBLY show for a piece like this? I need to know, seriously! Its in his freaking house man!

At Ronnie's memorial ride there were bits of his ash's put into the Mantis fuel tank that carried the remainder of his ashes over to the hills he use to climb all the time back in the day. Was that disrespectful? To someone that didn't know him, I guess it could be. But that was his personality, that's just how he was.

I never knew this /\ Thats straight badass! (In my opinion) Thanks for sharing.

[atc007]

Everyone has their opinion. I don't have any love for xowner. When this much cash is raised,generally the powers that be and family are excluded form the drawing. JHMO> I had no elusions of winning. I personally would have made as nice a thread as I could ,THANKING Swinehart and especially MOSH. And gave it back to John. But that's just me. This thread is not that. To the thousands of you that know and love and admire xowner. This seems to have sat just fine. Again. JHMO..

[keister]

Ruth went out of her way to be nice to me at trikfefest. Happy that a good person won it.

She is nice to everyone. For 9 straight years I have walked into the awards ceremony and been greeted by her handing me my dooor prize ticket. It's poetic justice if you ask me.... Plus I feel bad for her cause she's Xowner's mom. Hahaha.

[Xowner]

Everyone has their opinion. I don't have any love for xowner. When this much cash is raised,generally the powers that be and family are excluded form the drawing. JHMO> I had no elusions of winning. I personally would have made as nice a thread as I could ,THANKING Swinehart and especially MOSH. And gave it back to John. But that's just me. This thread is not that. To the thousands of you that know and love and admire xowner. This seems to have sat just fine. Again. JHMO..

I think this finally sums up the way you feel about me, I knew we had some tension in the past but I thought it was just that. Thanks for clearing it up. I also didnt have to thank Swinehart, Flying Bryan and the others for the bike because mom did AT HASPIN. Only reason the moshes didn't get a thanks because they were not able to make it. I been on her to get an account signed up and thank them but she is going threw a separation and is in the middle of moving and such.

Yeah it might have been a sick joke in most people eyes, The only part I regret from it is not calling rob and tammy to tell them i was doing it. I Understood the next morning that Rob had a talk to someone and they told him that it was a joke. I was hoping they would have called from the beginning when they found out that MY MOTHER WON IT ( not me ). I should have called, That was the biggest mistake I made. The Sunday when i got home or that Monday A friend of Rob,Tammy and mine called me asking what i was gonna do with the bike because they wanted to know. I ask him well why didnt they call me. For some reason that upset me that he was doing it and not them So i told him I was parting it. In an all honest truth that was done hopping they would call me. IT never happened and I should have called them instead of letting the rumors from there friends run wild and call them saying "HONNERLAWS GONNA PART HE RAFFLE TRIKE!!!! DID YOU KNOW!!!!????". Rob will tell you that me and him have had a ruff patch in the past mostly because of me but even then it was from communication issues.

[Mrs.Mosh]

I want to let everyone know that MyMint and I had just had a nice long conversation. I truly believe he meant no harm, and was trying to get a point across. He is very passionate about the sport, and his friends and I respect that. He apologized, which to me is the biggest thing someone can do. Thank you Mint for the call. You are ok in my book!

Jonathan, I really wish you would have called me. I thought about calling you, but to be honest...I always remember that third phone line you like and didn't want to get sucked into another one of those deals.

[Mrs.Mosh]

Maybe not needed but your getting some anyway Don't even think about sending it back!

Thanks for all you guys have done to have made the trike happen, it was great to watch it come together and fun to have a chance to win it.

LOL....Are you Neil?? I was trying to figure that one out for awhile this morning. Very, very nice of you, but not necessary. You are too kind. Thank you

[Billy Golightly]

I never knew this /\ Thats straight badass! (In my opinion) Thanks for sharing.

...Still gives me chills even thinking about it. RIP Ronnie.

[MIK6]

I have been a part of EVERY TF! I gave a small short talk befor the ticket was pulled.
Swinehart built an awesome tumbler for the tickets, EVERY ticket was placed in the tumbler, after that the youngest kid at the awards (who I doubt can read lol) was chosen, brought to the tumbler to pull 1 single ticket. The ticket was handed by that little girl to billy xowner and me. It does NOT get any more fair w that process.. the ticket pulled DESERVES to win that trike! Be it anyone that purchased a ticket!
Im personally glad it went to someone at the awards! I have known ruth for about 10 years now, she is an awesome person, she has helped w every TF, she has chatted, drank and hung w a few of the members on that seat at past TFs. It couldn't have gone to a better person!

MIK6/ Mike

[Xowner]

Jonathan, I really wish you would have called me. I thought about calling you, but to be honest...I always remember that third phone line you like and didn't want to get sucked into another one of those deals.

Boo! Thats almost as bad as my excuse of not calling you. It wont work unless I call you and put you on hold.....

[ditchmud]

Everyone has their opinion. I don't have any love for xowner. When this much cash is raised,generally the powers that be and family are excluded form the drawing. JHMO> I had no elusions of winning. I personally would have made as nice a thread as I could ,THANKING Swinehart and especially MOSH. And gave it back to John. But that's just me. This thread is not that. To the thousands of you that know and love and admire xowner. This seems to have sat just fine. Again. JHMO..

Umm swinehart bought a whole bunch of tickets, as did many other people involved in this forum and the building and promoting of this trike. Would you complain about anyone else winning or is it because you feel cheated because xowners family member won?
The integrity of this raffle is 100% legit. There are hundreds of witnesses. Fate chose a winner whether or not if you desired who it was.

[atc007]

Swinehart is NOT a mod...I was not insinuating AT ALL that there was any trickery in how it was drawn. And I will stop here. I think by far the majority are happy and I surely don't care to pursue it