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Kimo

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  1. Any of you guys gonna be at any of the pass sale events for Lovey willing to pick up a 4pack for me so I can ride with the cool kids? Loveland apparently doesn't deem anybody North of Denver worthy to put on a sales event and I don't want to give them the $10 extortion fee to have them mail it to me.

  2. C'mon Ken. We all know the real reason you wear body armor. It's to make your pecks and shoulders look bigger to impress the ladies :1luvu:. You're not going to get caught from behind and you never fall so it can't be those reasons. :eplus2:

  3. Yeah, 705. I don't know how I'd attach it. Maybe velcro strap over my upper sleeve. Doesn't matter because I can't afford it.

    Go to www.mapmyride.com. Their site is a bit archaic, but they have an app for the iPhone as a bike computer and a mount to put it on your handlebars. It's only a matter of time before someone comes up with a BlueTooth cadence/speed/power sensor and the iPhone will be all you need.

  4. Hmmm. I have the HTC Tilt on AT&T. The quality isn't so bad. I've heard complaints that it's actually 1st gen iPhones that have bad call quality (something about the antenna design) whereas BlackBerries are supposed to have the best call quality. My wife has a 2nd gen (3G) iPhone and I hear no complaints from her... a rarity.

    Maybe the 3G S is worth another look. Otherwise, I like the Garmin 601/701 GPS units, but I've been looking at them as bike computers, not ski trackers.

  5. Yes, you can get new smoke, but it has to come in almost, if not exactly, the same type of container that your old smoke escaped from and must be installed in this new container. Next time, resist the urge to set the volume at 11.

  6. Does that include me too? I committed to the 3 mountain pass again (we'll see if there're funds in the fun account for a Lovey 4pak later). Hopefully, we'll be riding again soon.

  7. How 'bout being so hard core about playing guitar that, when you pretty much destroy your right elbow, you have the doctors set it at a permanent right angle so at least you'll still be able to play.

  8. The were probably beaching them as a practice run at invading U.S. soil. You know, land on the water, beach all over California, Oregon, and Washington and have a few hundred troops flooding out of each plane/boat thingy...

    Oh and the originally video was pretty cool too. that thing was about as bare bones as it gets - it kind of reminded me of Waterworld (i know nothing about sailing and have only basic knowledge of how a hydrofoil works).

    You're probably right about the invasion practice, unless it involved the pilots' vodka rations being a little too high.

    Typical racing sailboats are all pretty spartan. The crews are lucky if they get hammocks to sleep in on transoceanic race boats.

  9. In some vids, it looked like they had a canting mast, but I'm not sure. I am fairly sure that the main hydrofoils are engineered with tapered chord and possibly some foil twist to naturally control the rise and fall of the plane thru the water (e.g. when the plane goes up, less lift is generated by the foil and so it goes back down). Also, the orientation of the foils (inward at 45 deg or whatever) tends to create stability because, when the boat heels to one side, that lowside's foil becomes more horizontal thru the water and produces more upward lift while the highside's foil becomes more vertical reducing upwards lift essentially self leveling the boat. It looks like there is no analagous structure to an aileron. I don't know if the entire foil itself is adjustable/repositionable so as to be able to change the angle of incidence of the foils.

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