TF 2016: The good, the bad and the ugly.

[knappyfeet]

Wow.......

Everytime I check the "active topics" all I see is trikefest this and trikefest that and mickey this and mickey that.

I've never been to a trikefest.......only met 2 members here and both were super cool folks....ones you'd like to have a brewski with and talk about life with so I pass judgement on no one. It just appears to me some folks here need a massive amount of attention.

The described that happened at trikefest seems like normal happenings here. Heck...I remember about 9 or 10 years ago the sherif department had around 100 officers in riot gear pushing up Oldsmobile hill or something to quell a massive party/verge riot. It's just the drugs and alcohol that's all......most are respectful and not evil.

But perhaps hiring off duty officers at key periods of time might limit the ruff housing. They have teeth that no security officer has. They are uniformed and have access to on duty patrol units. That's what we needed to do for a rental of a hall for my mother in laws 85th. Everyone behaved as normal. Most got loud and obnoxious but the off duty officers did nothing. I guess their experience dealing with the cities scum taught them well.....like when to get involved and not. Just a thought

[fabiodriven]

Thank you for the consideration but we don't need suggestions from those who have never been.

[RamsesRibb]

Well that's just rude

[fabiodriven]

Well that's just rude

Would you like me to tell you what you should have for dinner?

[knappyfeet]

My God........some on here must have pathetic lives

[clmeue37]

When you say you are a Christian, what does that mean, because a lot of Americans say that, but they have never been born again. I was born again on 3-18-92 at 6:30 pm, can you say when your were?

I am a Christian. A humble and sane one, 2 things I'm worried that you know nothing about. To answer your last question; yes. I can tell you location, date, and approximate time, but will not do so in this thread.

To everyone who is working to solve the issue, please don't continue to feed this man's ego. This will be the last time I respond to him on this site. He makes my stomach turn and I'm done trying to explain things to him. It's not worth it.

To everyone who hasn't been to haspin acres around the weekend after father's day, you are invited to come check it out for yourselves. Despite what you may think every 3ww board member that I've met has been of the highest caliber. You won't be disappointed.

[fabiodriven]

This will be my last post.

You can please some of the people all the time or all of the people some of the time. It has been said multiple times by multiple long time members in this thread if you haven't been to Trikefest you would not understand. This is not a "choose your own adventure" book for all the members of this forum who have never attended this event to decide how we should conduct it. Just about every suggestion, including yours knappyfeet, is outlandish if you're familiar with how this event is held. None of us would ever expect you to know that because you have never been, which is why multiple people have asked that those who haven't been please refrain from the input. I politely told you no thank you and thanked you for your consideration.

I am glad to have been a part of the solution and would love to continue and see it through but this community is becoming far too ungrateful and touchy. Taking offense to someone politely declining your solution, which would not work for a magnitude of reasons and defeat the purpose of a "festival" altogether, speaks volumes to how everyone suddenly has the right to be offended these days, just how so many of you know how to run our festival from the other side of a keyboard.

If you were that offended by your idea not being considered I deeply apologize.

To William, to my friends, you know how to get in touch with me if I can be of any more service. To the rest of you on here who may attend this event in the future, it was worth it for me to look this way. If you get to experience what I have at Haspin Acres then I'll gladly take the hit and look like the arsehole.

Enjoy.

[knappyfeet]

This will be my last post.

You can please some of the people all the time or all of the people some of the time. It has been said multiple times by multiple long time members in this thread if you haven't been to Trikefest you would not understand. This is not a "choose your own adventure" book for all the members of this forum who have never attended this event to decide how we should conduct it. Just about every suggestion, including yours knappyfeet, is outlandish if you're familiar with how this event is held. None of us would ever expect you to know that because you have never been, which is why multiple people have asked that those who haven't been please refrain from the input. I politely told you no thank you and thanked you for your consideration.

I am glad to have been a part of the solution and would love to continue and see it through but this community is becoming far too ungrateful and touchy. Taking offense to someone politely declining your solution, which would not work for a magnitude of reasons and defeat the purpose of a "festival" altogether, speaks volumes to how everyone suddenly has the right to be offended these days, just how so many of you know how to run our festival from the other side of a keyboard.

If you were that offended by your idea not being considered I deeply apologize.

To William, to my friends, you know how to get in touch with me if I can be of any more service. To the rest of you on here who may attend this event in the future, it was worth it for me to look this way. If you get to experience what I have at Haspin Acres then I'll gladly take the hit and look like the arsehole.

Enjoy.

I was just being funny that's all.......I forgot the smiley face.

It's an Internet forum.......it's for fun. I'm offended by nothing.

I was just throwing ideas out and mentioning my observations..that's all. Like I stated....I've never been to TF but am a learner in life....a gentleman in kind.

Your trying to help...that's admirable.

Hopefully I'll meet you..along with others one day at TF.

[kiser]

Hats off to the guys taking care of the problems we had this year. I wish I could have been more help with problem solving but I'm glad we had people with the means to do so. Thank you

[RamsesRibb]

I have no experience in this particular event. The problem is when you open a public discussion asking for help or advice the why reject what you receive in such a way. Now the back and forth with Mickey is just entertaining in a Springer kind of way. But serious ideas where thrown out. If one person has omniscience over this event then would anyone make an open discussion requesting ideas? Why open an event to the "public" on "Facebook" and then complain when trouble shows up?

And yeah all my posts are not meant as a slight. Just like to help the discussion along.
I'm sure a lot of hard work has gone into the planning and organizing and I'm sure it's a great time, but nothing's perfect and you will always get a few rotten eggs. I've been wanting to attend for years but I can't take the time off from work. Maybe in the future though.

[86T3]

I think it would be a good idea to bring some signs down to the river to post that say "No atv's in the water". They could even be permenent (not like idiots will run them over or anything) . And I think the helmet rules should be posted on the facebook page, and also that no atvs should cross the bridge into town. We've done a nice job of cleaning up the trash, even if I had to clean up after a certain group one day, we should be able to clean up the behavior. It's just the "fight" mentality that scares me. I know I'm the wrong person from TF 2016 to be preaching this but it's the truth.

[Hunting Chip]

2nd year for me at Trike Fest. This time with my two boys.
Luckily I avoided any altercations with the bad eggs. I did notice people passing in the parade...not sure what the rush was about. I was having fun in my Kiss mask waving back to the people who picked out Gene Simmons haha. I love the ideas of throwing out candy, doing floats, (and hey, more costumes!) next year for the parade. I lost my phone on the parade...Paul(I think he hung out with the Hall's) thought he dropped his phone and picked it up and put it in his clip. Later he realized his phone was somewhere else, looked at the screen saver pic of me from Breezewood and hunted me down to return it! Just one of the many awesome people you meet at Trike Fest. I hate to see you guys bickering, but I guess it's kind of funny too. It's hard to meet everyone in just a couple long weekends. Over the last 2 years I got to meet: Jim Smith and Sheldon and their boys, Pittsburgh Pete(and son Leo this year!), Racer X (Josh), the Patterson Boys, Regina, Dennis Krupp, Kiser, Howdy, Mickey...and a bunch of others that I can't put names to faces. It's funny trying to put faces with members posts...more than 1 person told me that that "Fabio Guy" is the guy with the pony tail and the armadillo helmet haha. But then I saw those pics of Fabio's builds and realized that must not be him. I couldn't hear very well at the awards ceremony, but I figured out who a couple people were there. Still a lot more people to meet in the future. I got on 3wheelerworld because I love trikes. That's where I found out about Trike Fest. In my 2 years there, it has been awesome to see all the different trikes and be a part of the 3 wheeler cult. This April at Breezewood(my one and only mx) was the same way. You pick about any 3 wheeler person there and they are so friendly. It was cool being one of the 66 trikes that showed up there. You'll never be able to meet everyone or like everyone, but the majority are just are really neat bunch of folks! I'm glad others are trying to be proactive for next year and keep things under control. Fortunately I didn't have any altercations with the bad eggs...because you know how you get protective of your kids...if anyone were to put my kids in danger, I could turn quickly into looking like being a part of the problem. I guess that's why my son didn't tell me until after the parade that somone on a side by side bumped him from behind. My son was smart enough to let it go because he knew I would have quickly helped them out of their ride haha.

[hoosierlogger]

Joe(86t3) is the pony tail with the armadillo helmet.

[Hunting Chip]

Haha, thanks Logger! I'll meet all you guys eventually!

[hoosierlogger]

Haha, thanks Logger! I'll meet all you guys eventually!

Barring any other life changing events, I'll be there longer next year. I was only there this year for Tuesday and half of Wednesday.