I did the fun ride before the Tour de Town crit long time ago. I was passing a guy on the left on a rain-soaked downhill turn (he was going so slow it was unavoidable) when all of a sudden decides he needed to be 8 feet over. He ran me into oncoming traffic which I narrowly avoided. I was pretty pissed and scared by it but that's what you get in those rides. That's why I don't do fun rides anymore unless they are metric centuries at least. Freds do those less often.

I've done the Georgia MS 150 ride. It can be a fun ride but it's supposed to be a FUN ride...for everyone, not just serious riders. You can't enter a ride like that, one that is more or less created to be ridden by Freds, then be upset that people actually ride like Freds. You already know what you're gonna get when you line up at the start so act accordingly.