Lotek,
I read it and i feel it does not need to be changed. Those folks have no idea what category has passed them or if there was a break or even if they are infact going to inhibit other riders. my point everyone seems to miss is this:
If you want to be a part of HHH then be a part of it. Don't 'do the century' outside of the parameters of the ride itself. If they want a private ride then come up to WF some other weekend when they can do whatever it is they want. Negative, impolite or whatever people feel I am being, the fact remains that riders who simply do whatever they want and to hell with the rules need not do the ride imho. Telling me they do this or that or they are super fast is irrelevant again imho. It has already caused accidents and of course damaged peoples bikes bodies etc.. Whatever I say is lost in excuses and 'exceptions'. Well eventually the organizers will simply get to the point where they are exasperated and not just the people who obey the rules and they'll drop the race. Based on some of the posts here this is exactly what some of the riders want. I would also like to point out that when people cheat the rules they confuse officals to the point where they believe some group that started way early and wherever it is they think they need to start are the actual riders who finished first until they can get a chip to resolve the issue (of course the riders responsible could care less or are oblivious to the confusion that they cause), and believe me it has happened before. So I do not care what kind of extra special conditions people *think* they are doing me a favour by implementing, all i ask is just do the ride like the organizers ASK you to do OR DON'T DO IT. Now I ask everyone that has taken part of this thread WHY this is so unbelievable and wrong or unecessary? What IF the racers blew through a group of riders and refused to give them any room and caused them to have an accident? Well if the responses i got were from racers then the response I would expect is"hey it's our race and they got in the way." That's pretty lame and no rational rider would see this as being remotely logical. So whatever man I tried to simply say just follow the rules. If some of the people don't want 14,000 riders then get in the front I used to do it as a ride for time and all I had to do was get there early and not wait till the last minute. We would catch people who got dropped and passed them politely as we could it was never a problem to be around less experienced riders. I guess I'm done trying to explain myself over and over from this point on I'll just repeat the same thing DO THE RIDE LIKE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO. This seems to be impossible for people to understand.