THIS IS WHAT I ORIGINALLY POSTED ABOUT HHH LAST WEEK BEFORE THE RIDE......
Originally Posted by trophyoftexas...."I've said it before and I'll say it again.....I can't even BEGIN to figure out why anyone would want to ride 100 miles in and around WF,TX at ANY time of the year, let alone in late August and especially with 12,000 other people, most of whom, according to most of the posts here, have almost no idea of what they are getting themselves into! Most of the posts on this ride are about bad experiences, a crash or two, and a ton of rules that I'm sure are pretty important for most of the 12k to know about and almost any experienced rider would already understand and follow anyway!

That ride has always sounded to me like a good one to be too busy to go to.....which is why whenever I get tempted I head for the Hill Country.....if I'm gonna be hot and ride 100 at least it's gonna be in a pretty location with hills and trees! Sorry for raining on the parade but this ride makes NO sense to me what-so-ever!....riding in the WF area has to be at least a boring as riding out here in Sulphur Springs!"

THIS WAS THE IMMEDIATE RETURN-POST AFTER I MADE THOSE COMMENTS (which I later somewhat "softened")
Originally Posted by PurpleFender...."Maybe you should try it to get an idea of how fun huge rides are instead of thread ****ting?"

Now, after reading all of these ride reports I think my original position has been at least a LITTLE vindicated! I'm glad that those that enjoyed the ride had a good time....I'm sorry that those that didn't enjoy the ride had a bad-poor-disappointing ride...but all of the comments serve to show me that, for me at least, the choice I've made to NOT ride this ride is the right one for me.

And perhaps PurpleFender's comment about me "thread ****ting" was sort of apropo since there appears to have been a LOT of bu!!$hi+ going on out there before-during-and after the ride!