First ride over 8 miles on the Vendetta. Stopped several times to check things over or make adjustments. Tried to take it fairly easy but really hard to do on this bike. I don't have the gears working 100%. I need an inline tensioner or adjuster for the rear derailleur. Since I put an X9 Type 2 RD to handle the 11x36 cassette I selected I ended up without an adjuster. Normally the X9 is paired with MTB shifters which have the adjuster on the shifter. No such thing on the Rival brifters and there isn't an adjuster on the X9 RD either. Looped back to check on a guy named Randy with a hand cycle on the side of the road just as a buddy in a pickup truck drove up and gave him and his cycle a lift back to their car in the parking lot. Randy's wife had ridden on ahead to get the car. I followed the truck and pulled pretty hard on the bars speeding up as the truck accelerated so I could keep up with him. Had to stop and loosen the handlebar clamps to reposition and then tighten back down. Also found the boom had worked its way forward on the slider about 1/4 inch again so I adjusted that back too. Actually made the 180 degree hairpin turn coming out from under I96 under power. I unclipped as I went under the bridge to be prepared to stop since this was the first attempt doing this all the way through on the Vendetta. On the way outbound I unclipped and stopped and walked it around the hairpin.