This should be a Guaranteed nice trike.

[Mr. Clean]

It cost him what? Maybe $20 in tickets, .

You have no idea what he spent in raffle tickets so why bother trying to guess, that is the idea behind a raffle.......

[Mr. Clean]

At first I was prepared to defend the seller a bit.... thinking his family was in need of money, mortgage needs to be paid, etc. But after rereading the ad...... it was his son that won it? and he has five other trikes?

Defend him a bit....... I would defend curtis til the day I die. He is great person and none of you other than those who have had the luck of him gracing your presence will ever know. His son Patrick does not have five trikes....talk about misinformed....I know him and know what room his has.......... a one car garage and a shed to store a couple trikes.....give me a break we all have more trikes than we can handle.........it does not matter who had the winning ticket.....they won.

If you look back at the thread with him riding it (god forbid it gets ridden) people were giving him grief over getting mud on it..........

[Mr. Clean]

I guess thats the difference between the hardcore people and the casual trikers.

Okay, you are hardcore and fla-2stroke is a casual rider.........

If not for curtis and patrick I would have no one that would have not volunteered to at least spend time after I got a 250r 20 years after I rode one for the first time in 1985. Check my first posts here on 3www.

[Mr. Clean]

Like I said, not judging. I rode with him and his boy at TF and he seems like a cool guy.

I guess something else that I would have thought of would be to offer it for private sale on the forum first. I haven't seen any posts for it or anything.

NO HE IS a cool guy not "seems like a cool guy" and what the F does rear brakes have to do with it........

Everyone on this forum is looking for a deal, not spend market value......

[Mr. Clean]

But hey, who am I to even throw in my two cents.... ?

I have no idea who you are but have you ever met Curits or his son Patrick....

I have and I can tell you they are the cream of the crop. I was waiting to see where this post was going and I can tell you this is ridiculous. I moved from Florida to Arizona and he and his son are welcome to visit anytime he wants. He and all the people I spent time in Florida are always welcome in my home (curtis, patrick, billy, alan, ronnie, gabe, greg) (you can research there screen names if you like) in AZ and experience the dunes and all the west coast has to offer. If any of the mods want to ban these posts or me have at it. I will be in the mecca of dunes this weekend and could only hope these "friends" of mine could join me........................

Mike D.

[Mr. Clean]

One last thing I must bring up as I am being a post whore is that you spell Guaranteed this way not "Gaurenteed" but that is the not the point of my thread......................and no where in his legitimate E-bay auction does he state this.......................

[chris200x]

I knew it wouldn't take long for this one to get outta hand. Damn ebay forum... Last tme I checked we still lived in America folks.. he can do whatever he wishes.

[Louis Mielke]

Woah Woah Woah,

I'm sorry you've taken this so personally but you need to calm down, and Chris this thread isn't out of hand, although you sure are quick to jump on the lock icon in just about any thread. There was no one truly upset until chevy57haerly79 posted up, and I can totally understand why he's upset.

Lets talk this out instead of wanting mods to jump in here, we're grownups.

Chevy57harley79, I know you feel like this thread is attacking a friend but please step back and reread as I've tried to maintain that I am in no way judging this triker. As you've clearly stated, I don't know him that well, I don't know his situation

He did say that he has too many bikes in his fleet in his auction.

I NEVER said that HE said that this was a Guaranteed nice trike. I'M saying that since WE know where it came from that WE ALL can know that its a very nice bike because a lot of sweat and blood went into it.

I know you're upset, please take a few minutes to reread, I think you're taking what has been said to heart or as a personal attack on this great guy.

It was in no way intended as a personal attack.

The brakes comment, it doesn't have anything to do directly to the topic I was merely remember trikefest last year. The poor guy was drag racing his 250r with absolutely no front or rear brakes. Several of us offered to help him get his brakes fixed and he declined cause "he just wanted to have a good time" I just remember how it seemed really dangerous for him to be riding like that when it would have only taken maybe half an hour for us to help him get brakes working. I felt bad for him.

Seriously, this thread is not an attack on his character and I don't believe anyone who has posted meant it to be. I merely posted this link so MAYBE the trike would go to someone on this board who needs it or would appreciate it.

Please calm down. Heck I was hoping he'd come into the the thread and talk about it with us.

Once again, there are no ill feelings or personal attacks. I know he's a great guy, I said seems like a great guy cause I only have a few hours experience riding with him so I'm not able to make a completely valid judgment.

I appreciate you validating what I already thought.

And thanks for correcting my spelling, I'll make corrections, I will say though, my philosophy is that the message is more important that the medium, "Someone might miss the fact that someones giving them the secret to life if their too worried about the spelling"

I would also like to reiterate like I have in almost all my posts.

He won it fair and square so it is his to do with as he sees fit.

Once again, no judgement, no attacks, just talking about the TF raffle trike.

[chris200x]

SO you didn't think posting this on 3ww wouldn't start an agruement then? Oh cmon Louis I thought you were smarter than that.

I merely put the "lock smilies up" so they would lock this before it totally gets outta hand. MAybe I should of just posted the popcorn pic.. sat back... and watched instead.

Personally I could care less what the guy does with it. its his now to do what he wishes. that's my .o2 cents since everyone else seems to be giving theirs... why can't I?

[brrcuda]

Thats why you give away 4 wheelers dammit - nobody here cares about those!!!!!

[Threes company]

.......... a one car garage and a shed to store a couple trikes.....give me a break we all have more trikes than we can handle.........it does not matter who had the winning ticket.....they won.

Hey Chevy... I come in peace and yes, I agree with you. We all come to this forum and these threads with our own perspective on things, that happens to be what makes this whole forum fun and informative at the same time. Now I ended my last post with "who am I to give my two cents?" and thats exactly what I meant.... I do not know this individual and I hope I did not come across as passing judgement on your friend in any way... if my post did come across this way... I apologize. I mentioned perspective..... my perspective is as one who has never won more in his life than a few bucks on a scratch ticket, and yes, I also have played the shuffle game... up until our "big move" this past year I lived in the inner city with nothing but a small shed for storage, I had trikes and bikes stashed all over town..... (hope I haven't left any behind, lol) Now, my first reaction to this thread was shock that such a beautiful machine as this would be given away in a raffle, hence the bit of "passion" in my post..... I had no idea this was done by 3WW.com at Trike Fest... thats pretty awesome in my book. I'm sure everyone on this board has his or her own ideas on what they would have done upon winning this bike.... some would keep it forever, put it on a pedestal and never ride it... while others would part it out as soon as they reached home just to make a few bucks........ but thats the beauty of this forum... we all have our opinions... and I want to hear them all.... whether it may be "dude, that paint job is hideous" all the way to.... "if I had won that trike I would have... blah, blah".... You stated that you do not know me...well, for me it comes down to this......... if you are a three wheeled enthusiast you are a great guy in my book, by default. Now being a Chevy lover.... thats another story... just kidding, just kidding. But like I said bro... no harm was intended... just my two, which is the same as shooting from the hip, always too high or too low, just never on target....

[Louis Mielke]

SO you didn't think posting this on 3ww wouldn't start an agruement then? Oh cmon Louis I thought you were smarter than that.

YES Chris, I did post this thinking that good old 3WW could talkabout this without starting an argument. I also already stated my main purpose was to make sure people saw his auction so maybe someone who won't part the thing for a fast buck might get the trike.

I'd like to thank you for attacking my inteligence though. I really appriciate that. I forget there are some people on this board who can't put thier two cents in and leave it alone. I don't see where an arugment has started until now.

I merely put the "lock smilies up" so they would lock this before it totally gets outta hand. MAybe I should of just posted the popcorn pic.. sat back... and watched instead. ?

You're not a mod chris. Yeah you can put any smilies up you want but its not your call if a thread needs locked.

Personally I could care less what the guy does with it. its his now to do what he wishes. that's my .o2 cents since everyone else seems to be giving theirs... why can't I?

You're perfectly intittled to in putting your two cents. Thanks for posting. And you're right, just as I've been saying THE WHOLE TIME, it is his to do with as he sees fit.

I'm not sure why anyone has any feathers ruffled, other than the fact that some of this might seem like a cut on the seller. I feel I've done my part to make sure everyone understands its NOT a personal attack on ANYONE.

[Mr. Clean]

Louis and Threes Company,

I woke up this morning expecting you guys to rip me for my comments. You both are stand up guys and after re-reading your posts and your replies I do not want my comments to be taken as personal attacks on either of you, just defending a very good friend. We all share the same love of our trikes and riding in awesome places. If either of you are ever in AZ you are more than welcome in my home!!! PEACE!! US.

[Threes company]

Louis and Threes Company, We all share the same love of our trikes and riding in awesome places. If either of you are ever in AZ you are more than welcome in my home!!! PEACE!! US.

[Dammit!]

Awww... I hate boring happy endings.