re: 1st annual Spring 2008 "Tail of the Dragon" MEET!
ok, i was not trying to personally attack you, and i understand i wasn't the only late arrival, i was just the latest lol. its just this seems to be a reoccurring theme in this thread, with the fees and the "schedule". but as was stated previously this was already set up before any of the vendors mentioned anything about coming. none of them were interested until we were going to have around 50 of us all in one spot at one time. regardless of anything else, you can elect to not participate in any of the events and take that time to talk with the vendors or purchase parts and or have them installed. these are your decisions to make and these decisions are left up to you. bill did not start this event to bring in vendors, it was started to bring in drivers. on top of that this event began its planing at the fall event and i believe this thread was started somewhere around december or january, no interest was shown at those times while bill was planing by any of the vendors, once plans were set in place and the "schedule" of events was written, the vendors showed interest, and now 2 weeks before the event bill is supposed to rewrite this schedule for a select few? that to me is asking allot. maybe the vendors can have some input and a schedule can be written for the fall to include them more but i really dont believe we should all have "vendor time" written into the schedule of events. are the companies going to have presentations for us? are they going to bring modified vehicle for us to check out? not that ive heard of. our participation in talking to the vendors and seeing what they are about or getting work done should be elective, so that those that dont want to can still participate in the events they came for and the reason this event was started. i just dont see how you would fit this time in with the big loop... its a long drive, allot of fun, gorgeous, and the main reason most have signed on. to take away from that experience should be the choice of the people who participate, it should not be left up to anyone person. and that is my opinion, everyone has one, and thats why we have the freedom to do what we please regardless of a schedule.