As measured by number of views, this has been the greatest Busse thread of all time for quite a while, not counting stickies. At 618,000 views, it far surpasses Shaggi’s Farewell and beats out the Hog Muk thread by over 100,000 views, even though Hog Muk had more replies.
In fact, there’s only one thread in the history of Busse on Bladeforums that has more views. That was Part 2 of the “Pics Only” thread series, which are stickies. That one thread has garnered about 647,000 views, but it was locked last summer when Pics Only Part 3 replaced it.
Ironically (or not

), the delayed HOGB8 delivery could result in this thread surpassing even that most-viewed-ever sticky thread. I didn’t think we’d ever top it after the HOGB8 release was announced Oct. 1, but on January 29 we had 599,000 views and today we have about 618,000. That’s 19,000 views in less than 2 ½ months and now puts us 29,000 views away from even the sticky record.
Once we start getting HOGB8 deliveries, and pics of all the variations start popping up in this thread, plus all the inevitable “bomb-proof user” pics, views will probably spike for awhile and we could have a shot.