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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
MoeAlfa. Yours?
This is going to sound lame, but I just can't remember. I've tried to go back and log on from time to time, but could never get on based on the usernames that I thought I used. I also changed it once or twice when you could do that as boat names changed. To give you an idea, Mojo is the name of my boat, and it's 31'.

I'm going to go back and see if I can figure it out just out of curiosity.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
This is going to sound lame, but I just can't remember. I've tried to go back and log on from time to time, but could never get on based on the usernames that I thought I used. I also changed it once or twice when you could do that as boat names changed. To give you an idea, Mojo is the name of my boat, and it's 31'.

I'm going to go back and see if I can figure it out just out of curiosity.
So when the tide comes in, are you Mr Mojo Risin’??
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
This is going to sound lame, but I just can't remember. I've tried to go back and log on from time to time, but could never get on based on the usernames that I thought I used. I also changed it once or twice when you could do that as boat names changed. To give you an idea, Mojo is the name of my boat, and it's 31'.

I'm going to go back and see if I can figure it out just out of curiosity.
You won’t find my best work, if you look. The archive for the new site doesn’t go back that far.
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So when the tide comes in, are you Mr Mojo Risin’??
Fun fact: it’s an anagram of Jim Morrison.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Were you the The Imperturbable Ry- oh hell - were you the Razor of that forum?
Who’s that? I was generally friendly, but argumentative and occasionally piled on in a not-so-nice way, but God did some of those guys ask for it! I remember writing some trolling posts about a totally insufferable guy in bad Hemingway, with a sock I used for hit jobs or saying things that could get me in trouble in real life, since a bunch of people knew me. It was a basically unmoderated and very active forum with a lot of very funny people.
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Eroica comes up in the NYT occasionally because of the high vowel content.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Who’s that? I was generally friendly, but argumentative and occasionally piled on in a not-so-nice way, but God did some of those guys ask for it! I remember writing some trolling posts about a totally insufferable guy in bad Hemingway, with a sock I used for hit jobs or saying things that could get me in trouble in real life, since a bunch of people knew me. It was a basically unmoderated and very active forum with a lot of very funny people.
Heh. He was just a relentlessly annoying Addiction kid. Razor in KC was his original user name, but then he decided to change it to some weird manga-like name for a short time. I don't recall if he changed it back shortly thereafter or if he was booted from the site shortly thereafter. Our Addiction historians would know better.
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So when the tide comes in, are you Mr Mojo Risin’??
Ugh.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Eroica comes up in the NYT occasionally because of the high vowel content.
Some of my friends have done the Eroica rides in California and one guy did one in Italy. You have to ride a vintage bike with exposed brake cables and I forget what else except you can't use clipless pedals. They said people were attaching toe clips and straps to their shoes and using clipless anyway.

The one they did in Central California had rain and the steep dirt sections were difficult with the vintage gears.
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Originally Posted by datlas
So when the tide comes in, are you Mr Mojo Risin’??
Damn, you are good! That was one of my names on that site. Seriously.

Took the name Mojo from Austin Powers since the boat was the essence of my sex drive and that which give me my legendary sexual prowess and potency. But, I was only fooling myself in thinking that.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Who’s that? I was generally friendly, but argumentative and occasionally piled on in a not-so-nice way, but God did some of those guys ask for it! I remember writing some trolling posts about a totally insufferable guy in bad Hemingway, with a sock I used for hit jobs or saying things that could get me in trouble in real life, since a bunch of people knew me. It was a basically unmoderated and very active forum with a lot of very funny people.
Yes, it was essential to have a sock or ten.

Brings back to mind a story about when I was the head of our club's handicap committee. Had one guy who was trying to get something like a 186 rating on a boat that should not have been over 150ish. He tried to tell me that the rating numbers on Wiki were the right thing to look at when I was showing him actual club ratings in our area. He kept trying to argue, so I went into Wiki and changed all the number for his boat. Then printed it out and told him that Wiki now rates your boat at 32. He caved, but it got a lot of laughs among our long time "serious racer" members.

SA was how I met Favela and the Mauri Pro guys, among a lot of other people that were fun to hang around with on the water or over a drink.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Yes, it was essential to have a sock or ten.

Brings back to mind a story about when I was the head of our club's handicap committee. Had one guy who was trying to get something like a 186 rating on a boat that should not have been over 150ish. He tried to tell me that the rating numbers on Wiki were the right thing to look at when I was showing him actual club ratings in our area. He kept trying to argue, so I went into Wiki and changed all the number for his boat. Then printed it out and told him that Wiki now rates your boat at 32. He caved, but it got a lot of laughs among our long time "serious racer" members.

SA was how I met Favela and the Mauri Pro guys, among a lot of other people that were fun to hang around with on the water or over a drink.
Nice.

Sailing in general has provided us more community than we’ve had since our grad student and postdoc days. Kids and work didn’t seem to select people in the same way.
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Had an amazing ride today. Had a lot of pent of aggression and stress from the past couple of weeks. Work has been getting me down and it’s really all just me and dealing with my issues. I typically judge how the ride is going by how I meet miles vs time. So typically a good day I reach 10 miles close to 30 mins and 20 miles close to an hour but usually not on the money. Today I blew the 10 mile mark by over a minute. 20 miles was right on the money and that would have been faster but some people on the jamestown island were blocking my path. I couldn’t find my summer gloves so I went out in my winter gloves and they got to hot so opted for nothing. I didn’t really mind it at all. I unlocked some achievement on intervals.icu for holding my heart rate at a certain level.
Saturday is looking like I might have some good news to share, don’t want to spoil it until then.
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Cannondale reacquired! Evening blocked off......
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Nice.

Sailing in general has provided us more community than we’ve had since our grad student and postdoc days. Kids and work didn’t seem to select people in the same way.
Agreed. Our best friends for the last 10-12 years are boat neighbors four slips down.
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Cannondale rebuilt! No pics yet. I'll take some tomorrow when I do the shakedown cruise. Still waiting on the matched RX100 wheelset, but I'll make do with the mismatched 105 wheelset I have. Not sure I want to ride the dryrotted Vredesteins, though, even on a short, mostly flat ride. But we'll see.

After I built it up I measured it to compare with my other bikes. It's got the largest saddle-to-bar drop of my bikes, though only by 3mm. I'm curious to see how it feels. The fit seems closest to the Battaglin, which has been my raciest bike.

Setting up the indexed DT shifting was a snap, or perhaps more accurately 7 clicks. The action is very positive, and once adjusted the indexing works perfectly. The front took a little fiddling, because the center of the seat tube attaches to the BB in front of the BB center, so the derailleur is hard to align with the teeth of the big ring. The derailleur itself is the braze-on type, with a clamp-on adapter. I used a shim between the adapter and the derailleur to line it up better and now it shifts great. It's friction anyway, so as long as it goes from one ring to the other on command it doesn't have to be perfect.

Gearing should be interesting. It's got the same 53/39 and 12-25 that I used to run on the Ritchey, and I used to climb a lot with that gearing. But I was younger then! Don't think I'll do any LONG climbs with it, but there are some short ones that may be worth trying.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
It's got the same 53/39 and 12-25 that I used to run on the Ritchey


I've been running a 50/34 with a 12-25 for the last few years. I like it quite a bit for my terrain and strengths (we do have some steep-ish pitches, but they're short enough that I can torque it out). Going to even taller gearing in hillier country? Yow. I'd have to stop alongside the road to look for my patellae after they blow off and in to the shrubbery.
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I've been running a 50/34 with a 12-25 for the last few years. I like it quite a bit for my terrain and strengths (we do have some steep-ish pitches, but they're short enough that I can torque it out). Going to even taller gearing in hillier country? Yow. I'd have to stop alongside the road to look for my patellae after they blow off and in to the shrubbery.
I run that now, but before I got the Habanero 12 years ago, I was running "old school" 39/53 and 12-21 and somehow was able to go up our killer climbs. I would NOT want to do it now with that gearing.
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I run that now, but before I got the Habanero 12 years ago, I was running "old school" 39/53 and 12-21 and somehow was able to go up our killer climbs. I would NOT want to do it now with that gearing.
Featherweight. Yeah, I suspect that I could make that gearing work if I dropped 35lbs.

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I run that now, but before I got the Habanero 12 years ago, I was running "old school" 39/53 and 12-21 and somehow was able to go up our killer climbs. I would NOT want to do it now with that gearing.
I have no idea how I used to do that, but I did. 34-50/11-25 now and I use the 11
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
I have no idea how I used to do that, but I did. 34-50/11-25 now and I use the 11
Huh. I didn't even realize that there was an 11-25 option. Vs the 12-25, it looks like they take away the 18t in exchange for the 11t... Hmmm. I'm sure that I use the 18t a *lot* more than I'd ever use an 11t - hell, the 12t is the shiniest cog on the cassette - but I do get over 40 on occasion and gap between the 17t and 19t is pretty manageable within my preferred cadence range..

Oh hell - who am I kidding? It probably wouldn't move the needle much for me, either way. Now if there were a 12-28 available, that'd be a serious consideration.
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Now if there were a 12-28 available, that'd be a serious consideration.
AAAAAND now I see that, of course, Shimano offers this in Dura Ace at $200+
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