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Dixie Motor Speedway EoD Rules
***Eve of Destruction Competitor Update
Dixie Motor Speedway has elected to maintain the 2014 Eve of Destruction (EOD) rulebook. EOD rules will remain the same as the previous season in a continuing effort to minimize the cost of competing for race teams. The unchanged rules will be in effect for all EOD divisions including; Chain-Gang, Crash Cars, Flag Pole and Trailer F-8's. All technical rules will remain the same for the enduro class, including Dixie Motor Speedway allowing both the fuel injected and carbureted engines.
2015 rules
General Rules
Misc DMS Race Procedures
Eve of Destruction Rules
E o D - Registration Forms - Drivers
EoD - Registration Forms Owners (receive 1099 if you make $600 or more)
Enduro Rules Below...
Laps and Purse based on Car Count
Chain Gang
1 $300.00
2 $125.00
3 $75.00
4 $40.00
Laps and Purse based on Car Count
Crash Cars
1 $300.00
2 $125.00
3 $75.00
4 $40.00
Laps and Purse based on Car Count
Fig-8 Trailer
1 $300.00
2 $125.00
3 $75.00
4 $40.00
Laps and Purse based on Car Count
Flag Pole based on one race
1 $300.00
2 $125.00
3 $75.00
4 $40.00
Laps and Purse based on Car Count
1 $300.00
2 $125.00
3 $75.00
4 $40.00
These events are intended to be FUN and enjoyable by all, as indicated in the rules - poor sportsmanship and conduct will result in NO pay and possible suspension from future Dixie Speedways events.
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Bomber Registration - DRIVER- Driver/Owner
Registration Bomber - OWNER (Recipient of 1099)
Dixie Enduro Rules
We would like to have a great Enduro Races at Dixie Speedway. We will continue to tweak our rules tokeep this series safe, affordable & fun.
Dixie Motor Speedway Officials will have the final word on the eligibility of any car, so call if you have a question. Always think Safety – Stock – Cheap – Fun!
All questions should be directed to Dixie Speedway - 989-624-978
Please also read and understand the General Rules, (published separately) they apply to all classes /competitors.
Car Choices:
Any 4 Cylinder Front or Rear Wheel Drive Car and 6 Cylinder Front or Rear Wheel Drive Car with an
Automatic Transmission can be used in the Enduro series.(6 Cylinder 1/2 ton pickup truck ok) Exceptions
are No Convertibles, No full size 3/4 ton trucks, No Two Seat Coupes, No Turbo or Super Charged
Engines, No Multi Carburettors, No Rotary Engines, No Mid or Rear Engine Cars, and No Cosworth
Engines, Factory Stock Fuel injection only. Non performance (no racing or high compression) small V- 8
engines of 350 cu. in. or less will be allowed that have no performance parts.
1. Antifreeze: non allowed period please have drained BEFORE you come to the track.– any car caught
during tech will have to drain your complete cooling system in an approved container & will be assessed a
10 lap penalty. If you are caught draining or dumping antifreeze on Speedway Property, you will not run &
be disqualified for that event.
2. Battery: may be relocated, strapped securely, and covered.
3. Body: Complete Stock Body – front to rear, stock frame, stock suspension, stock front & rear firewalls
- Stock, Stock, and Stock! All trunks & hoods will have working stock hinges. Hoods & trunks must be
secured with a quick release style hood pin or straps only – No nuts & bolts will be allowed - remove all
factory hood & trunk latches. All metal Bumpers must be strapped or chained……you will be blacked
flagged if you are dragging a metal bumper Mufflers are Mandatory. An Emergency Shut-Off Switch is
highly recommended. Bumpers must be chained or strapped to frame. All holes in firewalls or floor must
be covered with metal. No Spring Rubbers or Spacers of any kind. No altering or playing games with your
Struts! Your cars do need to bounce up & down freely when going thru tech! Rear Steer (Wheelbase)
Rules are as follows: The wheelbase will remain the same measurement on the left side of the cars as it is
on the right side. There will be ½" of tolerance. No Expandable Foam allowed in any body panels (around
the battery or radiator OK) You are allowed to run up to 1 ¾" dia. x .090 bars down to the rear struts off
the back of the main cage as well as between the rear struts. You are allowed to run up to a 1 ¾" dia.
support bar between the two front strut towers. You are allowed to have one - 1 ¾" x .090 piece of tubing
run between the two front frame horns of your car. This bar will be back in from the front edge of the
frame horn so it not to be mistaken as a support bar for your front bumper. This bar is intended to keep
the frame horns in place & to assist with the mounting of your radiator.
4. Chassis: The metal portion of the dashboard, the steering column & pedals must be stock – No
Mirrors of any kind. All Insulation & Upholstery under the hood, on the floor, and in the interior of the car
must be removed. All headlights, taillights, loose chrome, etc. must be removed from the car. All cars
must start with a key, or use a push button/toggle switch hooked directly to the steering column wiring
harness. The vinyl cover on the dash may be removed.
5. Exhaust: Stock System with muffler – Max. Exhaust size will be 2". If it is too loud, it will not run!
6. Gas Tank: If the stock gas tank is located ahead of the rear axle, it may remain in place. Any tank
behind the rear end must be replaced & relocated in the trunk. Use a small fuel cell (8 gal or smaller) or a
boat gas tank. Fuel cell or boat gas tank will be mounted in the farthest forward area of the trunk, securely
fastened with at least 4 straps. Rear firewall must be enclosed if the gas tank is placed in the trunk.
7. Glass: all glass except for the windshield must be removed. Lexon windshield is OK. All loose glass
must be vacuumed out of the car. No lead, concrete, or any ballast may be added to the cars.
8. Rear Bars - We are allowing the placement of rear bars, solely for the purpose of safety and to try to
keep the rear of the car from folding up so easy. Maximum of any tubing size will be 1 3/4", round or
square; there will be no 3" or 4" channel. The rear bars may extend rear-ward from the top of the cage
behind the driver, angling down towards the rear of the trunk area. We suggest having a piece of tubing
welded flat on the trunk floor, back near the kick-up of the very rear of the trunk area. This is the material
that your two rear bars will attach to. No bars of any kind will extend out through the rear of your trunk
area; any bars out past this point will need to be cut out before racing. You may have an X in between your
two diagonal bars.
9. Steering and suspension: must be stock - no modifications – minimal camber is allowed – this
will be measured with a carpenter square. Camber Rule – Minimum camber adjustment will be allowed –
½" of camber will be allowed.
10. Transmission: stock for that make & model of the car. An external cooler is permitted.
11. Tires & Wheels: Stock wheels for that make & model of car are fine. Safety Wheels can be used, but
you are not allowed to increase your tread width, by using some big offset wheels. Maximum size of any
wheel will be 16' x 7" wide. Oversized 1" lug nuts are highly recommended. All wheel weights must be
removed from both the inside & outside of all
wheels. No low profile, trick, or exotic tires allowed. No Z Rated Tires of any kind! Radial tires only, No
bias ply, racing, or re-cap tires allowed. You may run a 14, 15 or 16" tire in a 75, 70, 65, or 60 series –
maximum 225. The track has the final call on any and all tires…..If you think you have found a way around
the above tire rules, call us first, before showing up with them on your car.
12. Safety Equipment:
A driver's side window net is required and must be able to unlatch for easy driver exit.
A set of racing seat belts and shoulder harnesses are required, mounted in a safe and proper fashion.
Racing Helmet must meet minimum DOT standards; a Snell approved helmet is suggested.
An approved fire suit, both tops & bottoms are highly recommended.
Racing gloves and shoes are highly recommended.
13. Safety Requirements: A roll cage with a minimum of a rollover bar is highly recommended with
the rollover bar being just behind the driver's seat. A full 4 post cage with a full set of drivers door bars &
steel door plate is recommended for all Enduro cars. The minimum tubing size is 1½" x .095 thickness,
and must be securely welded or bolted to the car. A steel plate welded/bolted to the exterior of your
driver's door and overlapping the front & back door seam is highly recommended if you do not have a roll
cage with drivers door bars. No removing of any interior metal inner door or body panels if you are not
running a roll cage with door bars. Removing of these panels will be allowed for door bar clearance only.
Both doors must be welded or chained shut. If a stock seat is used, make sure all tracks are bolted in place.
It is highly recommended that the back of the seat be secured to the back of the roll bar. A racing seat,
mounted to the roll cage is highly recommended.
2015 Pure Stock/Bomber Invitational Rules
In the interest of allowing as many teams to compete as possible, the rules are based on an Invitational format using other area track rules as a guide.
Auto City-legal, Owosso-legal and Whittemore-legal Pure Stocks/Bombers/Lead Sleds will be deemed legal for these invitational events at Dixie.
Weight: All cars must weigh a minimum 3500Lbs. No exceptions.
legal tire rules for the following tracks
AC pure stock tire rule
owosso pure stock/bomber tire rule
whittamore pure stock/bomber tire rule
or USED 970 Hoosier also allowed
TRANSMISSION: Stock automatic transmission only. Must retain all working gears. No power glides, 2 speeds, or direct drives allowed


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Although there are several rather strong medications on the market for heartburn and acid stomach, these conditions are usually quite easy to control with the following natural Ayurvedic home remedies:
Take 2 tablespoons of aloe vera gel with a pinch of baking soda. This will have an immediate soothing effect.
You might also try this formula. Into 1 cup of water add
lime juice :1 a drops
organic sugar 1/2 teaspoon
baking soda 1/4 teaspoon
Put the baking soda into the cup last. When you add it, an effervescent reaction will occur. Immediately drink the mixture to neutralize heartburn and acid stomach.
For hyperacidity and indigestion, try drinking 1 cup papaya juice with
1 teaspoon organic sugar and 2 pinches cardamom.
NOTE: Pregnant women should not eat papayas, which contain natural estrogen and may create the danger of miscarriage.
Generally, acid stomach can be controlled by a pitta-pacifying diet. Strictly avoid all hot spicy food. No pickles, and no fermented food. Minimize or cut out citrus fruit and sour fruit. And avoid overeating.
If your heartburn is not helped by the remedies recommended in this sec?tion or if it occurs often for no appar?ent reason, you should consult a doctor. If you feel you have heart?burn and it is accompanied by vomit?ing, dizziness, chest pain radiating into your neck or shoulder, or short. ness of breath, you need help immediately: You may be having a heart attack.
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To buy a bunch of cool stuff?
The reason I'm asking you all this is because it's a very easy trap to fall into, once you start hitting certain degrees of success.
That's why I say that those who are motivated purely by "more money", are lucky in a way.
Because they'll always be motivated. You can always hit higher scores… but if this is your only motivation, you might have a hard time feeling fulfilled.
For the rest, myself included, it's a bit different.
And if you're like me, then regardless where you are with your bank account right now, I recommend working on something even once a week that actually excites you.
Now, ideally that one thing is targeting a specific market that you can monetize.
But often, the type of work I'm talking about is found in a hobby or something you're involved in outside of
work, and you can take the skills you've learned doing IM/CPA stuff to really accelerate and dominate that market you are in on the consumer side.
I talk a lot about being more of a producer than a consumer.
However, our experience as consumers allows us to see certain market gaps, and things that we can do better.
This is how you find that type of work where the money you make is simply an awesome side effect of conquering a market you're actually interested in.
So maybe right now you're launching CPA and traffic campaigns, and you're not overly motivated outside of the fact that you can make some quick cash.
Understand you're learning the skills of traffic and conversion, the 2 skills that can help you write your own checks forever.
And, understand that these 2 skills can probably be transferred into a market you're already a consumer of.
How can you shift yourself to a producer in that market, and dominate it while having fun?
That's how you wake up every morn without an alarm clock, because you're excited as hell to get to "work"… which feels more like play at that point.
So keep your eyes open, these types of breakthroughs are often in plain sight.
Today we're going to talk about response.
Specifically, why you typically DON'T ever get the response you want, or the response you were expecting.
And when I say response, I mean getting high click through rates, increasing conversions, and making more money with the same amount of traffic that other marketers get.
There is a formula on how to make your ads stand out and get your prospects to take action.
It goes like this:
Curiosity + Self-Interest = Cha-Ching!
Let me explain.
You see, curiosity is actually the most powerful emotion, you can stir. And here's why:
Once you arouse curiosity, you "open a mental loop" inside people's minds.
And they will not feel "comfortable" until this loop can be closed.
It's why every episode of a television show ends with a cliffhanger – they know you're going to have to come back next week to see what happens.
This is just human nature, and it's as automatic as scratching an itch is.
As to self-interest, well this one's easy.
If you're not appealing to someone's self-interest, then they aren't going to be interested in buying, right?
Which is why it's important to sometimes be direct.
Lots of people think marketing has to be complicated or convoluted… that you have to make people think and get their wheels spinning.
But the ONLY thing you need to get people to think about, when it comes to selling something, is themselves!
Which is why self-interest is so important.
A woman with skin problems, for example, doesn't care about toe fungus or jock itch.
No matter HOW good your offer is, this just isn't relevant to her life.
So the first things you need to think about when creating marketing, is how can you make your target marketplace, curious, and… what is going to appeal directly to them.
I actually got this technique from Craig Garber's book, "How To Make Maximum
Money With Minimum Customers."
This is one of THE best marketing books I've read.
That's it for today… just a short post on how to get more response out of the same traffic, starting today.
Keep todays lesson in mind next time you're writing your ads or landing page copy, I'm willing to bet you make more just by following what I laid out here today.
Chad Hamzeh
The vast majority of these questions have really good intentions behind them…
"Should I use a landing page for this?"
"Should I use blue or red for the button?"
"Should I use Facebook Ads?"
"Should I ___________?"
I encourage questions, we all had to start somewhere.
And often we all need a bit of direction.
But, the fact is that most of these sorts of technical questions can be answered by one word… "test".
You need to understand one thing, and I know it sounds elementary but it seems like it should be repeated.
Money loves speed. Nothing transforms desire into money, faster… than fast action itself.
Start to get comfortable with the concept of a "minimum viable product" or "minimum viable campaign".
Don't worry if your landing page isn't quite perfect, or the product you're selling hasn't been user tested a million times.
Just get it out there! Get some traffic and some data… if you have your own product, get it in front of the prospects most likely to buy and TRY TO SELL IT.
No user group is going to tell you what you need to know as the actual numbers or market will.
Don't ask people "Hey does this look cool? Would you buy this?"
After all, NOTHING is more valuable than forward progress.
And sometimes, all these other things don't necessarily help you move forward.
Some great affiliates I know don't even use tracking!
They just set up tons of direct linked campaigns to fit the traffic they feel will convert best, and they get to work.
Stop waiting for "perfect".
Stop thinking you actually have something to lose.
Stop worrying about failing.
Guess what, you probably will anyway.
But guess what, you'll most likely live through it too.
The way you make money FAST is to focus intensely on one area and MOVE FAST.
I'd always instinctively done this on projects that interested me, but it was drilled home when I read Craig Garbers book "How to Make Maximum Money with Minimum Customers."
If you haven't read that book, do yourself and your bank account a favor and grab it this week..
Click Here Now to Check It Out
It's a real, physical book that could be called a bible for direct response marketing.
If you've ever wanted to improve your ad click through rates, landing page and offer conversion, or e-mail list relationship, then do yourself a favor and grab it while the sale is on.
Move as fast as you can, but never hurry.
Talk soon,
Hear me out.
The way you pre-frame and pre-qualify will often dictate the quality of leads you generate.
I know we talk a lot about angles. Angles are what make the winners and losers. The problem is, angles can be done through a number of means. The most obvious being ads and landers.
But if there was one thing that trumps everything else, it's probably also the most obvious… and that's a group of people that actually want something.
Ya ya, you've heard it all before… find a "starving crowd" or WHEN a crowd is going to be starving.
Ask yourself, what's easier to do… convince someone they need something, or find people that want it and see what's already working, and improving on it?
This is a post I made elsewhere, and I wanted to share it here as I feel it provides some good insight into how being successful at direct linking might be one of the most profitable skills you can develop. (assuming the offer has a strong pre-sell or low barrier of entry)….
The stronger the lead source and creative, the less important the offer is. I used to think the offer was everything, and it is extremely important, probably #2…. but I didn't know just how powerful a specific lead source can be until we started doing high priced premium e-mail drops.
It has a higher barrier of entry and ideally a high ticket offer to make it work, but it's literally the easiest money I've ever seen (online and legally).
Bizarre really.
You'll have a sales page that converts at 1% with good display traffic do 3%-5% on the mail drops.
How does that translate to display, ppc, and what most guys tend to use?
Well for a while I thought most buys for $40 CPA type offers would always work best on 50 cent to $1 CPM placements. And that's just not true. You can make a $3-$5 CPM work. Right now I have a buy that is at a $5 CPM, and it's starting to break even after 2 weeks.
Mike Geary actually said it once too about his Truth About Abs offer, where he often has sites at $3-$5 CPM work once creatives are dialed in.
Creatives should be used to pre-qual, pre-frame, set expectations, and filter, not just sell a click… eCPM is more important that CTR, though CTR is also extremely important.
The more and more I've done this, really direct linking is a very fast path to long term stability.
I know that sounds counter intuitive, and I'm a big proponent of list building, but the best list is a buyers list anyway… and by direct linking you can rapidly find the converting lead/traffic source.
Then adjusting & creating an offer around that source is much easier based on looking at the successful offers you were direct linking to, emulating them, and adding your own version eventually into the rotation. Once you have the benefit of your backend, you can spend more.
It's hard to convince people, instead of just selling what they want already.
So if you ever feel confused on which strategy is best, really it all comes down to finding converting traffic.
Yes, that takes a lot of testing, but you can see how once you find that, you then adapt the offer (or build your own) FOR that traffic.
Its the front end that needs to get optimized, and once you find converting ad creatives, then eventually your own converting front end (lead gen, product, whatever), you can often take those creatives and front end to lots of different traffic sources and they'll work.]]>
A lot of people don't know this, but I am actually part owner in an iPhone App called "TonightsFights".
But, instead of thinking "what's something new, never been done, that I could create and make millions?!?!!"
I show the latest strategy to get profitable with Facebook Ads.
I've also included a couple bonuses that I'll tell you about below.
A small portion of the module is the same as before, but you'll learn how my bidding strategy and campaign structure has changed.
In my opinion, this is going to be the way to get good traction in Facebook for long time.
You'll see an over the shoulder vid of me building a Facebook campaign with this new campaign structure,
without the need of any fancy bulk upload tools.
So if you don't have the budget for a bulk tool, you can still
build your campaigns very quickly.
And, for those that want to upload hundreds of ads in record
time, I also give my suggestions for 3, Facebook approved
upload tools.
Finally, I go more in depth on the social pages such as
fan pages, sponsored stories, etc, and I even show a
quick over the shoulder video of setting up a custom
fan page.
So get into your members area now and check it out… and like I
said, if for some reason you still haven't picked up Traffic Blackbook,
then click below to learn my top traffic getting strategies,
so you never have to worry about traffic generation again:
Thanks very much,
Chad Hamzeh
P.S.: Oh ya, the bonuses. In your TBB members area, at the bottom
of the left side navigation, you'll see a new video on fast landing page
creation and best practices. I wanted to make sure you had no excuses
By the way, the RevenueWire blogger contest closes tonight at 11:59 EST. So if you haven't voted for me, I'd appreciate you taking 10 seconds to do so please:
If I win, I'll put together something special for my subscribers, but either way thanks a ton for the support.
OK so on Monday I shared the lesson I learned from an 8 figure per year earner.
The lesson was that the fastest way to build a list is to have a converting offer.
Basically, the better your front end performs, and the more you can make in terms of front end EPC (money you make with the initial funnel entrance and immediate monetization),
then the easier it becomes to buy traffic from a variety of sources.
People talk about a single point of failure, but this is a single point of success.
So what makes a converting offer?
Well, that's the secret sauce really. I've always said that traffic is easy, it's conversion that's difficult.
Without making this a giant lesson on conversion, just understand that the following seem to make the biggest difference in conversions:
• The initial traffic/lead source (probably most important but most difficult in terms of getting your hands on a premium source)
• Social proof
• Pre-framing in your ads (to qualify prospects right from the get go)
• Headlines on your landers that carry the theme from the ad (when using landers)
• Micro-commitments (read the "Slippery Slopes" post on my blog)
• A solid landing page formula for eye flow & conversions (I'll send a video on this later)
That's just for starters, and some of the more important ones.
So, whether you're promoting CPA offers, pay per call offers, or your own product, look to where you can test premium targeted traffic sources, add social proof in ads and/or landers, and pre-frame in your ads.
Those would be the big ones to start.
That's it for today, thanks very much.


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NEW YORK — Baseball dedicated its 1997 season to Jackie Robinson on Wednesday and will donate $1 million to the foundation established for the player who broke the sport's color line 50 years ago.
"It was baseball's proudest moment then. It's still baseball's proudest moment, and I believe it will always be baseball's proudest moment," acting Commissioner Bud Selig said. "Should it have come earlier? Certainly. There never should have been a barrier."


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I often wonder if my home brew actually tastes any good.
To me it does and it usually gets good reviews from friends and family, but is it really good beer or does it's reputation precede it?
This month's Session (beer bloggers sharing ideas) is hosted by Mr David J who asks whether hyped beer is good or bad. The particular question that got me thinking is this one:
Are we much better off knowing nothing about a beer, or is it better to have the knowledge as to what the best beers are?
What Mr David's asking, I think, is whether taste can be objective, or if it's too heavily influenced by the descriptions and opinions that are already out there.
When people drink my beer they usually enjoy it and spread the word. Others then try it after hearing about it by word of mouth (yes, it does happen).
This makes me nervous, fearing the beer won't live up to the hype.
The reactions are different depending on the people.
Non-Beer Drinkers
Non-beer lovers tend to be impressed by home brew.
They're often surprised that beer itself can be so tasty, and impressed that you can make your own.
But afterwards they go back to drinking lager. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't help the case for my beer being delicious.
Beer Drinkers
It's great when honest people with beer knowledge try a home brew.
This is where it's judged against other good beers. If a beer fan says it's delicious, they mean it don't they?
And if there's something wrong they tell you.
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HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS
Copyright © 1995 by William I. Johnston
New York: Insight Books-Plenum Press
"I didn't know what caused it. There was a time when I thought just being gay would be enough," said Tucker, a 31-year-old receptionist, when I asked him about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. "I knew it was happening in gay men. Could it have been excessive masturbation? There goes my hobby."
Tucker told me that his early religious upbringing had been Catholic. "Then my parents became Fundamentalist," he said. "They went through everything they could find, from Bible-thumping Baptist to Tammy Faye and Christian Cosmetics. So I had all sorts of imaginable guilt. The mentality of the southern ministers on television -- that AIDS is some sort of retribution for being gay -- is prevalent throughout a good deal of the country. When I first started hearing about AIDS, something in the back of my mind said, 'Jesus Christ. What if they're right?' I was 21. I have never really known sexual life without the grim reaper standing next to the bed."
It was not only religious Fundamentalists who equated being gay with getting AIDS in the early years of the epidemic. Tucker recalled the reaction of a former sweetheart when he told her he was gay: "She cried and said she had always loved me and had always wanted me to be the one to share her life. She was a nurse. She said, 'I will love you anyway, even if I can only touch you with rubber gloves.'"
Tucker's recollections reminded me of an episode from my college years. Sitting on the dock of the crew boathouse at school in 1983, I overheard one rower ask another, "Do you know what G-A-Y stands for?" The answer was, "Got AIDS Yet?" I sat silently on the dock with heat rising in my face, ashamed that I was not out of the closet enough to confront them. I was hurt and confused. Did people really think that being gay meant you were destined to get AIDS? Did I think that too?
I knew homosexuality had been associated with illness, contagion, contamination, and death for centuries. Gay men, for example, were believed to "recruit" or "corrupt" others by having sex with them, as if homosexuality itself were a kind of sexually transmitted disease. The fact that gay male relationships were not biologically procreative linked them metaphorically with death, and religious scriptures were interpreted as invoking death penalties against gay men. The arrival of a plague that appeared to selectively strike gay men reinforced these old models of viewing homosexuality. Despite my growing awareness of the prejudices implicit in these models, I found it hard to banish them from my thinking, and they poisoned my estimation of myself as a young gay man.
It's not surprising that the equation of being gay with getting AIDS was made. In 1981 the available evidence revealed only that many gay men in New York and San Francisco were dying of opportunistic infections because of severely compromised immune systems. We did not know what was causing the epidemic, which for a time was referred to as GRID, an acronym for gay-related immunodeficiency. Later, when similar illnesses were recognized among intravenous drug users and blood transfusion recipients, the name was changed to AIDS -- acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- to reflect that the immune deficiency was an acquired trait, not a characteristic of some people.
What is surprising is that gay men sometimes continue to equate being gay with getting AIDS. Gay men who test HIV-negative often wonder why they are not infected. For some men this is an expression of simple disbelief that they have escaped infection. But for others it reveals a more complex identification with AIDS, often tied to a lingering dread of being infected or an expectation that becoming infected is inevitable. This is an unfortunate example of how early reactions to an epidemic can persist for years.
It is worth reflecting on gay men's experiences before HIV testing was available, because our responses to the epidemic were shaped in that time when no one knew who might be infected. This chapter explores some of our early experiences with the epidemic and points out how they continue to influence our thinking today. We cannot understand how profoundly HIV testing has affected gay men unless we first recall the position we were in before testing.
Scientists studying the epidemic, which was first reported in the United States in 1981, suspected a transmissible agent might be responsible. It wasn't until 1984 that Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier identified the agent believed to be responsible for AIDS -- then named HTLV-III or LAV, now referred to as HIV, for human immunodeficiency virus. HIV testing was developed in 1984, but it became widely available only when it was licensed by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1985. Before then, the only way to learn you were infected was to become sick. All you could do was wait.
In the absence of a test for HIV infection, many gay men began searching for early symptoms of illness. People were being disfigured by Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare form of skin cancer, so we began inspecting our bodies for the slightest sign of lesions, the visible stigmata of AIDS. People were dying from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, so we began watching for signs of shortness of breath. Chronic lymphadenopathy was a common early sign of infection, so we began palpating the glands under our jaws. Of course, we found the symptoms we were looking for. The fact that so many of the symptoms were nonspecific did not deter us from diagnosing ourselves and inundating our doctors with our concerns. It was easy to imagine being infected.
Many of the people I interviewed recalled finding what they feared might be HIV-related symptoms in the years before they took an HIV test. When I asked what it was like not to know their HIV status, the men I interviewed commonly responded by submitting a list of symptoms that made life miserable.
"I could not have a cold, only an experience with death," said David, a 35-year-old software writer from San Francisco. "Every infection was another notch on some viral gunslinger's belt, every cough another sign of immunity breaking down. I knew the cold feeling in my spirit every time I bruised or tired, the slightly faster heartbeat when I thought of it, like my body was preparing to fight or flee. Of course, there was nothing wrong with me that I knew of, but that's the key: 'that I knew of.'"
Scott, a 24-year-old graduate student from Newark, Delaware, recalled constantly monitoring his health. "The slightest hint of a cold or flu sent all kinds of fears into me," he said. At the age of 16, he said, "I was always looking in my mouth in a mirror to see if I had thrush, or at my legs to see if I had Kaposi's sarcoma. I once had a small boil on my leg and immediately rushed to the doctor. Then there was the time a pen in my jeans pocket broke, and when I saw the black stain on my skin I was sure I was a goner."
The dread of being the next one to succumb loomed large in the early years of the epidemic, and fear about one's own health was sometimes accompanied by another more excruciating fear: the fear of having infected a lover unknowingly. Lewis, a 44-year-old travel agent, remembered watching a television program in which people with AIDS talked about symptoms. "All of a sudden I realized I had this little spot right here," said Lewis, pointing to his ankle. "It was similar to what they had talked about. I had an absolute freak-out. I was convinced that I had AIDS, because I saw this spot. And not only did I have AIDS but I had infected my lover of seven years. It was devastating."
Lewis immediately got up, turned off the television, and walked out of his house wearing no coat. "It was only five degrees above zero. I was in such a state of shock I did not feel the weather. In a daze, I walked to a park. I just sat under a tree and broke down crying. I was horrified. All of a sudden the AIDS epidemic lived in my home. I was dying and my lover was dying too."
When Lewis went to a doctor a few days later, he learned that the spot on his ankle was a harmless blemish. "I see nothing wrong with you anywhere," his doctor told him. "There is nothing to worry about." Was his doctor right? I think not. Lewis's anxiety about the spot on his ankle revealed not only concern about his own health but a sense of responsibility for the health of his lover as well.
Men who were partners of people with AIDS sometimes developed symptoms, just as the sympathetic strings in an old violin vibrate with the strings the bow touches, even though they remain untouched themselves. Sandro, 23, whose narrative appears in chapter 2, remembered that his lover with AIDS was always itchy, sometimes scratching his skin until it was raw. "On his hands he had little welts," Sandro said, "and he would scratch them so much that they would get bloody. You know what's funny? At the time I was with him, I would scratch myself, too. There was really nothing there, but I would itch. When we broke up, I didn't itch at all anymore. It was only when we were together." This kind of imaginative link to an ill partner is found among spouses of cancer patients who believe they too have cancer, and among husbands who gain weight during wives' pregnancies.
Searching for symptoms was not confined to the years before HIV testing was available. It continues today among people who experience AIDS anxiety. When I worked on an AIDS hot line in Massachusetts between 1987 and 1993, nearly every week I heard callers convinced that they were experiencing symptoms of HIV infection. Even when the possibility of HIV infection was remote, AIDS was so frightening to these callers that they did not discuss their concerns with their health-care providers. Fearful of having acquired HIV and fearful of learning this truth through HIV testing, they preferred to agonize over the telephone with an AIDS hot-line worker.
Hypochondria is nothing new, of course, and HIV provides a useful hook for the hypochondriac. The earliest symptoms of HIV infection are so nonspecific that it is easy for hypochondriacs to invoke them by autosuggestion. Alice, a 40-year-old HIV-test coordinator for the Red Cross in Massachusetts, discussed how anxiety about HIV was related to the symptoms people present when they come in for HIV testing. "Many people seem to have waited several years before making the decision to get tested," she said. "Their anxiety in many cases goes to the point where the stress manifests itself in physical problems, like diarrhea, loss of appetite, chest pains, and rashes. A little digging finds out that these are things people were prone to before. Now the stress is just causing symptoms to come back."
"One problem," Alice added, "is that people look at the list of symptoms, tell themselves they have a symptom -- such as swollen lymph glands -- then palpate their glands so much that they bruise and say, 'Well, now I do have them.' People who are really far gone just make things up."
Even before we learned that AIDS was caused by a virus, gay men invented the practice of "safe sex" -- later renamed "safer sex" -- to deter the epidemic. At first, safer sex was defined as limiting the number of partners you had, and avoiding ejaculation in the body. In Boston, AIDS educators passed out buttons with the slogan "On me, not in me," a message that was interpreted to mean that withdrawal before ejaculation was a safer practice. Later, when epidemiologists found that insertive as well as receptive partners could be susceptible to infection, the use of latex condoms was recommended to protect both partners during intercourse. When HIV was identified in 1984, many gay men had already begun to adopt safer sexual behaviors.
Before HIV testing existed, no one knew who was infected and who was not. In the absence of information about HIV status, it was useful to believe either that you were infected and your sexual partner was not, or that you were not infected but your partner was. If you believed you were infected, safer sex was an ethical responsibility to avoid infecting others. If you believed you were not infected, safer sex was a pragmatic method of avoiding infection. You could justify safer sex either as an altruistic gesture to protect others or as a self-serving device to protect yourself.
Curiously, some people justified safer sex both ways at once. Some men I interviewed mentioned that they simultaneously held beliefs of being both infected and not infected, of being both infectious and capable of becoming infected. "There was a way in which I assumed I was positive and a way in which I assumed I was negative," said Alan, a 31-year-old editor at a university publishing house. "I tried to look at each day as if I were positive and it was my last healthy day, and to look at the future as if I were negative and I was going to be there forever. I was trying to get the best of both worlds: Live today like it's the last good day, but there's going to be a million tomorrows anyway."
Early efforts at preventive AIDS education encouraged people to practice safer sex "with every partner, every time," stressing that it was impossible to know just by looking whether someone was infected. These guidelines were analogous to the universal precautions adopted in health-care settings, which required health workers to assume that every incoming patient might be infectious, and to take precautions accordingly. Conveniently, the behavior to adopt whether you believed you were infected or not was the same: using a condom during intercourse protected an uninfected partner, whether insertive or receptive.
Rudy, a 47-year-old teacher, described this universal approach to sexual encounters. "Everybody that you have sex with, you have to have in mind that they are infected and treat it that way," Rudy said. "When you don't know for sure, you treat everybody as if they have it. And you do what you would do with somebody if they were infected."
The "universal precautions" approach to safer sex helps explain why many gay men found it ethically acceptable to avoid HIV testing when it first became available: you did not have to get tested if you practiced safer sex. It was ethical not to learn your status as long as you behaved as if you or your sexual partner were infected.
Given the stigma attached to AIDS, the assumption of being infected led to unwelcome feelings about being "tainted" by HIV. When it became evident that HIV was infectious, many gay men created new attitudes toward their own bodies and the fluids coursing through them, because of the risk they might pose to others.
The mystery surrounding the infectiousness of HIV led some men I spoke with to worry about whether they might be putting loved ones at risk. "I remember having irrational worries about being around my very young nieces and nephews," said Edward, a 39-year-old faculty development specialist at a music college. "I knew my worries were irrational, because I knew it was difficult to catch AIDS. Now they seem silly, but that was an issue for me. Not that I would breathe anything, or that I would cut myself. I don't know what. I feared that somehow or other these children -- who I had very strong feelings for -- would become ill as the result of their gay uncle spending time with them. I felt a little dangerous around them, and I was careful around them."
Although saliva is not generally considered an infectious fluid with respect to HIV, uncertainty about its infectiousness in the early years of the epidemic led some men to worry about whether kissing might transmit HIV. Sam, 30, whose narrative appears in chapter 10, told me that his worries intensified when someone he had sex with in 1983 was diagnosed with AIDS in 1984. "When my friend became sick, I didn't want to kiss anyone, family members or partners. I didn't kiss anybody because I was convinced that I was infected and I was going to pass it on to someone and that I shouldn't do that. When I would visit home, I would kiss people on the forehead."
Quite early in the epidemic, scientists hypothesized that HIV was transmitted by blood, because the pattern of infection was similar to that of hepatitis, and because cases were found among intravenous drug users. That HIV can be present in and transmitted through blood evokes an enormous number of cultural resonances. Blood has been revered as a life-giving force and yet feared as a taboo substance. The idea that their blood might be "bad" because of the possible presence of HIV had a powerful psychological influence on gay men. Many people already viewed homosexuality as evidence of sickness; now there was a physical correlate to this view.
One of the few helpful things that gay men could do to limit the epidemic before HIV testing was available was to refrain from donating blood. Preserving the safety of the national blood supply was an important priority. Even before HIV testing, members of what were called "risk groups" -- gay men, hemophiliacs, Haitians, intravenous drug users, and blood transfusion recipients -- were asked to voluntarily remove themselves from the donor pool. Membership in one of these stigmatized groups was seen as evidence that you were more likely to be infected.
I remember the impact that the new regulations about donating blood had on me. Donating blood was something I had viewed as an act of generous altruism. Suddenly altruism was defined in opposite terms, in terms of withholding rather than giving. As a gay man, I was being asked to help others by not donating my blood. Guidelines about blood collection do not permit any man who has "had sex with" another man since 1977 to donate blood, regardless of the kind of sexual behavior and regardless of his HIV test results. I obliged, and I continue to refrain from donating blood, even though I have tested HIV-negative. By following the recommendation not to donate, have I in some ways acquiesced in a definition of myself as "tainted"?
Through the regulations surrounding blood donation, the concept of "risk groups" became officially institutionalized. Later campaigns that emphasized that "it's not who you are, it's what you do" that puts you at risk for HIV infection have done something to discredit the reactionary concept of "risk groups." And yet blood-collection regulations continue to encourage the uninfected to imagine they are infected, equating gay sex of any kind with the risk of HIV infection. Even if this is done with the goal of keeping the blood supply as free of HIV as possible, it reinforces the equation of being gay with getting AIDS.
What is it like to imagine that your blood is HIV-infected? It is to wonder every time you floss your teeth if kissing a loved one could lead to his death, or your own. It is to wonder every time you nick yourself shaving if HIV is there on your chin. It is to wonder when you have hemorrhoids if you should let someone come near your ass. Even if you assume you are not HIV-infected, the sting of bleeding is made sharper by ruminations about HIV, because bleeding makes you more vulnerable to infection. Blood is supposed to sustain life, not be the initiator of death.
Semen also has life-affirming connotations that are at odds with the presence of HIV. When I was a teenager, I looked at my own semen through a toy microscope and was amazed to actually see spermatozoa swimming around, the seeds of life. Now when I look at a pool of semen in my hand, I sometimes wonder, "Does it contain HIV?" If I repeated my childhood experiment, I would not be able to tell. HIV is too small.
For many gay men, semen is important. Ejaculating semen into a partner's body and taking a partner's semen into one's own body are an important part of sex. In heterosexual couples, semen represents the possibility of generating a new life. In gay male couples, even though conception is not an issue, semen has important life-affirming characteristics. That semen has become entwined with death is deeply troublesome for gay men. Psychologically, the affiliation of HIV with semen is even more problematic than its affiliation with blood, because whereas the appearance of blood is associated with injury and pain, the appearance of semen is associated with ecstasy and pleasure.
"I am pissed I have to do it," said Blake, a 33-year-old library clerk from Portland, Oregon, referring to safer sex. "Sex is a pretty intimate thing to me. I feel that it is a sharing, and I feel that body fluids are part of that sharing. Physically a person does become part of you; you become 'one.'" Jeremy, a 27-year-old graduate student from Lexington, Kentucky, said, "When I've been in a long-term relationship, I begin to care for a person and in some way want to exchange fluids as an almost spiritual need to share part of that person. Sounds sort of weird, but I know of two other men who have said the same thing."
It saddens me that Jeremy describes his desire to exchange fluids as "weird." Because our culture does not approve of homosexuality, the celebration of semen exchange is not something widely supported. And now that HIV is with us, that celebration is muted even among gay men. Jeremy's language reveals that what gay men used to consider "ordinary sex" is now problematic as a result of having to consider semen dangerous.
We have yet to fully appreciate the complex psychological damage that occurs in people who believe they are HIV-infected, who imagine that their body fluids are dangerous when they may not be. Even though such beliefs may have helped encourage the development and practice of safer sex in the early years of the epidemic, it has been at great cost to gay men's attitudes toward their bodies and their sexual behavior in general.
Unfortunately, beliefs about being infectious continue to influence our attitudes toward sexual behaviors and our definitions of safer sex even after we find out we are not infectious. These attitudes, which developed very early in the epidemic, restrict us from adapting our early definitions of safer sex to take into account knowledge of HIV status.
The invention of safer sex before HIV testing involved a simultaneous invention of unsafe sex, the categorization of certain behaviors as being "high risk." The earliest risk-reduction campaigns used our limited early knowledge about the mechanisms of HIV transmission, largely based on case histories, to place sexual behaviors along a rough spectrum of "riskiness," labeling anal sex "high risk," oral sex "possibly risky," and masturbation "low risk" based on the unspoken assumption that the two people involved in sex were of different HIV status.
The drawback of this kind of risk analysis was that gay men began to identify their body fluids as dangerous, and to define certain sexual behaviors, such as anal sex or oral sex, as unsafe in and of themselves, without regard to whether one of the people involved had HIV and the other did not. In the early years of the epidemic, before HIV testing was available, this kind of risk analysis was unavoidable and prudent, since it was impossible to know if someone was infected with HIV. Now that HIV testing is available, however, such risk analysis is somewhat outmoded. Gay men nowadays do take their own and their partner's HIV status into consideration -- even though it is difficult to know whether someone is truly uninfected -- when deciding what kinds of sex to engage in.
But the categorization of certain sexual behaviors as "risky" persists even after people have begun to learn about HIV status. Gay men in the United States persist in calling anal sex without a condom "unsafe" without regard to whether one of the people involved has HIV and the other does not. It is common for gay men now to say that anal sex is "unsafe" even when practiced by two HIV-negative people. Does this merely reiterate our mainstream culture's proscription of same-sex behavior, under the guise of public health? Or is it perhaps evidence of the durability of our early definition of safer sex, developed before HIV testing, which was predicated on a belief that every sexual encounter was potentially between two people of different HIV status and therefore a site of possible new infection?
Although it is tempting to think of the time "before the test" as something that ended when HIV testing became available in 1985, the truth is that those who have never been tested are in a sense standing "before the test" even now. And those of us who have tested HIV-negative sometimes find ourselves standing "before the test" as well. We may find ourselves uncertain about our HIV status, wondering if we can be confident about it, especially if we have had sex that puts that status into question. This is not the case for those who learn they are HIV-positive.
Wondering about HIV status, then, can be a recurring concern for those of us who test HIV-negative. Because becoming infected with HIV remains a possibility, it is easy to find ourselves returning to a position we thought we had left behind, vulnerable once again to the search for symptoms, the simultaneous belief that we are infected and uninfected, and a reconsideration of how to define safer and unsafe sex. HIV testing has not entirely done away with the psychological and social issues we experienced before its existence.
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Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account (Personal Takes)
The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961 under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61." Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine and recorded her observations in Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil. Harry Mulisch was also assigned to cover the trial for a Dutch news weekly. Arendt would later say in her book's preface that Mulisch was one of the few people who shared her views on the character of Eichmann. At the time, Mulisch was a young and little-known writer; in the years since he has since emerged as an author of major international importance, celebrated for such novels as The Assault and The Discovery of Heaven.
Mulisch modestly called his book on case 40/61 a report, and it is certainly that, as he gives firsthand accounts of the trial and its key players and scenes (the defendant's face strangely asymmetric and riddled by tics, his speech absurdly baroque). Eichmann's character comes out in his incessant bureaucratizing and calculating, as well as in his grandiose visions of himself as a Pontius Pilate-like innocent. As Mulisch intersperses his dispatches from Jerusalem with meditative accounts of a divided and ruined Berlin, an eerily rebuilt Warsaw, and a visit to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann becomes as a disturbing and highly personal essay on the Nazi extermination of European Jews and on the human capacity to commit evil ever more efficiently in an age of technological advancement.
Here presented with a foreword by Deb rah Dwork and translated for the first time into English, Criminal Case 40/61 provides the reader with an unsettling portrait not only of Eichmann's character but also of technological precision and expertise. It is a landmark of Holocaust writing.
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as there is no standardized measurement of rocker. The best one can do is confine comparisons within a single brand to sort boats out as to degree of rocker.
The Argosy will work as a lake boat with 200 lbs of burden. The chief difficulty you will have to solve is finding or building a good detachable yoke that does not move.
Mine slid around so bad on an ADK trip I got mad and drilled holes in the gunwale and installed round head bolts so the yoke I use could not slide.
She is still a wet ride..Archimedes points out that volume of displaced water does matter and larger may be better in the boat is not sunk so deep. Also the low bubble encourages broadside waves to ride up the boat into your lap rather than be deflected downward as in a shouldered tumblehome boat.
Some of my friend use Argosys in Canada for two week long trips. But sort of minimalist.
If it were me I would buy the boat I would use the most often where I normally paddle. Its easy to rent a Wilderness for the BWCA trip.
at any of our four symposia a year. And I have been teaching at them for a long time. Granted I did not attend this years new Wisconsin event. However I can tell you I have never seen a student bring an Argosy in fifteen years.(perhaps I should be more accurate in that the Argosy has not been present that long. I think seven years is more accurate)
Lets break it down:
Flare in a hull has superb secondary stability. But it makes for a too wide paddling station. So shouldered tumblehome is what FS ers want in a boat that is heeled. Its a bit of a compromise as a vertical paddle plant is not as easy as with a boat with a narrower gunwale station (like most Wenonahs), but FS judges have decreed the boat be held at the rail and flare or shouldered tumblehome is best. Wenonah with its racing background addresses the vertical paddle plant more. Its easier to do that with the wide part of the hull low. Wenonahs were never intended to be heeled. You can if you are very cognizant and careful and balanced but that isn't their design intent.
" I quickly learned that it must be leaned to track with any degree of ease" tells me lots. This person has never learned to paddle the boat straight. Ergo this person has read a book but jumped a few chapters. And you do not "lean" a boat. You heel it.
"Using both Canadian strokes (in-water recovery) and a combination of C-, J- and pitch strokes, I managed to overcome the excessive bow rocker (2-1/4" A Canadian Stroke does not have an inwater recovery. The Indian does. Bow rocker has NOTHING to do with tracking. That is a function of paddler skill and STERN rocker.
Now after dissecting my sushi with delight, the Argosy does go through abrupt transitions. Its wobbly when empty and you are sitting high. So fix the seat. Lower it. Heel it a little and it firms up. Not much now. Heel it more and you will see a quick reduction in stability long before you get to the rail.
And the reviewer has the Yellowstone Solo and the Argosy all mixed up." but unlike the YS, secondary stability is excellent"
Golly we have all sorts of new to FS paddlers heel their YS(Yellowstone solos are common) close to the rail without anyone having to fish them out.
Thanks for pointing out that review!
I remember my friend paddling his Argosy down 10 mile long 1 mile wide Lake Kondiaronk. Its wider than 30 feet. And my hubby leaving me and the dog with a Swift Raven (bigger than Argo and MUCH heavier) while he paddled back to the car to go to work..in an Argosy ..with a mile open water across Lower Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks.
I was referring to the Argosy review, submitted by birren and quoted by windwalker earlier in this thread.
What in it do I consider to be BS?
1. The Argosy is unsuited to any purpose other than freestyle
2. The Argosy must be leaned to track with any degree of ease.
3. The Argosy is very unstable until leaned nearly to its limit.
4. The Argosy has better secondary stability than the Bell Yellowstone solo.
I neither love nor hate the Argosy. If it were the only boat I could own I would probably be very fond of it.
The things I don't like about it?
For a 14 1/2' OAL boat with a waterline beam of 27" it has relatively little carrying capacity because the rails are relatively close together in front of the front thwart.
The low, rounded tumblehome leads to an abrupt decrease in secondary stability when leaned beyond the wide part of the "bubble".
For what is marketed as a nimble river boat, the small amount of stern rocker (1") makes the stern rather sticky when executing eddy turns. I am not saying you can't heel and turn it, but there are similar sized boats in which you can do it much easier, and those boats do not give up any straight ahead hull efficiency to the Argosy.
We seem to have devolved to anecdotal experience; fairly unhelpful without paddler height and weight, and experience filters. We all like our boats; we don't keep those that displease.
The width range of solo canoes is 27.5 to 31" excluding the SuperNova. The OP seems to kneel some and would likely want a hull where his knees fall easily into the chines.
Wilderness is one of the wider hulls as the Vagabond/Kestrel/RapidFire is one of the narrower.
The obvious solution is for the OP to try some boats for fit. The triangulation of knees and sitz-bones is the key to hull fit, understanding that knee pads/ blocks can narrow the effective chine spacing and seats can be raised and lowered. That said, the paddler needs to comfortably stack hands across the rail, i.e. outside the max beam, with the hull flat in the water. Standing heel skews hydrodynamics.
My anecdote: At ~5'9", 170 lbs There are hulls that are too wide for me; requiring I move a knee to cross heel the hull. Wilderness is too wide for a guy who can sit on a cigarette paper and swing his legs. Further, I wouldn't have a canoe without bow rocker and don't need the stern skegged to improve course keeping. Cross sectional shaping? I like shoulders high and tightly radiused as per Yost and Scarborough as opposed to low and soft, but then again my arms don't reach very far down the sidewalls.
I came across a Bell Wildfire, wondering thoughts on this per the discussion.
It is RX with vinyl trim. I know when I was doing freestyle this and the flashfire were popular boats. Never though of it as a contender. Reading back I see Charlie did mention it. I can't find specs on it but I read that the Yellowstone solo is the same boat? In RX the Yellowstone solo weighs in at 47# would that be a real world weight for the older Wildfire too.
Thanks, Mike
The boat that was originally called the Royalex Wildfire was renamed the Yellowstone Solo.
I think it is a very good boat, much more to my liking than the Wenonah Argosy. It is reasonably fast, can carry a decent load, and is quite stable when heeled which makes it pretty nimble as well. Very nice river boat that does pretty well on flat water as well.
It does not have as much depth as a whitewater boat, or an SRT which would limit its use in whitewater. You still might be able to run some technical Class II stuff if it does not involve big wave trains or significant drops.
Any composite boat is going to paddle a bit better than a Royalex version, even if the Royalex boat is a very close copy in hull shape. The increased stiffness of the composite is a big reason, but the blunter water entry at the stems of Royalex boats makes a difference as well.
The main difference in the composite Wildfire and the Royalex Yellowstone Solo (nee Royalex Wildfire) apart from the material is that the YS has differential rocker, with an inch less at the stern. The Wildfire has sharper lines at the stems and shoulders than the Roylex YS. I have heard that the shoulders also extend up a little closer to the sheer line on the composite Wildfire than they do in the YS, but I haven't had the two close enough together to notice.
It should also be noted that there are composite versions of the Bell Yellowstone solo that share the differential rocker of the Royalex YS.
The first time I paddled a Royalex YS I didn't expect to like it a whole lot because I rather expected the differential rocker to make the stern "sticky" as I had experienced with the Argosy. I also expected it to be much slower than it turned out to be. Despite the fact that the YS has an inch less rocker in the back, it still has a bit more rocker than the Argosy does both front and back, both to my eye and by the manufacturer's specs. The shouldered tumblehome and elliptical water foot print of the YS also allows it to be healed over in a very stable and predicable fashion, so the stern hardly feels "skegged" to me.
If you look at the L/W ratios for the two boats, they are very close: just over 6.3 for the YS and just under 6.5 for the Argosy. But I think that the YS puts more of its overall length in the water than the Argosy does, so I suspect that in reality the functional L/W ratios are nearly identical. I suspect that the swede form hull shape of the Argosy gives it a slight straight ahead speed advantage on flat water, but for me it isn't noticeable, but the friendlier handling when maneuvering in current or waves of the YS definitely is.
It seem Royalex hulls are always differ from their composite versions. This goes back to the Mad River Explorer, which was shorter with blunter ends and less V in RX than in composite.
It is also true of Argosy, Cascade and Wilderness and the Mad River Guide/ Freedom as well as Bell's offerings. Of course those variations pale into insignificance when looking at Hemlock's composite Shaman and the Mohawk RX version.
The RX WildFire had do differ from the Composite because the abrupt shoulders wouldn't release from a vacuum forming mold, and of course the RX sandwich cannot bend to yield as tight an entry line. That we also halved the stern rocker doesn't seem to be a moral sin, hell, everything else was different, we were trying to improve performance for an entry level market. [RX was ~half the Kev price.]
The name change had to do with contractual arrangements. Bell de-emphasized the Wild in favor of the composite YS Solo because they owed fewer royalties for YSS.
It's probably not worth getting to exercised about which $0.50 decal got stuck on a canoe. There is more variation between other Comp[/VFRX hulls by several other manufacturers.
In the beginning there wss one WildFire mold; 14 'X30", symmetrical 2.5" rocker. There is also just one vacuum forming mold for a similar RX hull with differential rocker, length maintained but shoulders softened and a single mold for a differentially rocker composite variant with higher shoulders.
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As a therapist and cyclist (recreational only) I have also experienced this. I would suggest seeing some one whether it be an acupuncturist/ deep tissue therapist or even a sports physio to release the tight muscles on the outside of your leg. When you get a knee problem like this which sounds like patellofemoral pain syndrome it helps to get it treated. I had my chinese acupuncturist needle my patella tendon which sounds painful bu really helped but wouldn't really recommend it if you are not comfortable as it is quite an aggressive treatment. This will help you have a chance to strengthen your muscles with exercises such as squats which are nice and safe and smash some stretches for your gluteals and quadriceps.
Gluteal Stretch in Lying - YouTube gluteal stretch
If you are keen lie on a tennis ball to release your outside thigh muscle and your gluteals as these are muscle most likely to be tight.
I was wondering is there a reason it may be one sided i.e. previous injury on that side?
Also it doesn't harm to adjust your bike set up slightly ie raising seat height or pushing seat back just a tiny weeny bit but feel free to consult your bike fit person.
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The traditional New Year's Day Levee will be held from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Manitoba Legislative Building, offering tours inside the legislative building and complimentary sleigh rides around the Legislative grounds. The event is hosted by Lt.-Gov. Philip Lee, his wife Anita and Premier Greg Selinger. Food donations for Winnpeg Harvest will also be collected.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery will be open 24 hours between 6 p.m. on Dec. 31 and 6 p.m. on Jan. 1 to give Winnipeggers one final chance to see the late-night hours of Christian Marclay's The Clock. The exhibit uses thousands of film excerpts to form a 24-hour real-time montage. Shorter showings run until Jan. 5.
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The Unique theme has both a most viewed and most commented widget, which has options for displaying by year, month, day, or all-time.
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