After collecting nominations and doing a little discussion of the nominees in the forum, it’s time to vote. Just to review, the two positions up for election this year are Chairman and Assistant Chairman. The other two positions, Head Mechanic (currently: me) and Treasurer (currently: Chris Stengel) will be elected next year. The idea is [...]
This post was written in advance and scheduled to get posted this morning automatically, because we don’t have time to be writing posts anymore … It’s RACEDAY!! Well, the purists would say raceday is tomorrow, but us BAA folks are at design comp passing out stickers and tshirts. Come on down and see us if [...]
Today is the last Thursday we’ve got before the circus comes to town, so I’m going to cut straight to the heart of the matter with this, the final Thursday Poll of the year. Who do you think is going to go home with a trophy from this year’s races? When it comes to raceday [...]
As we announced recently, we are very excited to be helping to bring not one, but two jumbotrons to buggy this year. The first will be at the top of hill to next to the leaderboard just as it was last year. The second will be down in the chute so fans in either of [...]
Ah, design comp. How many competitions can you think of that some people respond to by wearing suits while others … well … do not make the same effort to make a good impression. The list of buggies entering design comp hasn’t been announced by Sweepstakes yet this year, but I hope that it will [...]
We probably should have run this one about a month ago to be timely, but this topic came up in the forums, and I’m in no position to turn down a decent poll idea at this point. The topic this week is “buggy vs. relationships” or “relationships via buggy” depending on your perspective. Out in [...]
The kids are on spring break this week, and it’s been breaking 60 degrees here in Pittsburgh all of a sudden. With warm weather finally on the scene, we’re close to rolls, and with rolls, we’re close to new buggies. Back in my day as a head mechanic, building buggies was challenging, but finding a [...]
First, let me apologize for letting the regulars down on the Thursday poll this week, and thank you for letting me know that you noticed. You’d be surprised how quickly Thursdays come around when it comes to dreaming up poll questions. In exchange for your patience, I have generated a neat graph. This one goes out to [...]
Now that we’ve announced the plans for an entirely upgraded timing system at raceday 2010, it’s time to take bets on how close the race is going to be this year. Will our high-tech digital photo finish equipment come in handy to measure the fine line between 1st and 2nd, or will it be so [...]
With the snow we’ve been getting almost every day here in the ‘burgh it seems like we might be getting further from rolls rather than closer, so maybe I’ll stop talking about it. Hope everyone is enjoying the polls in the mean time. This week’s topic is a nod to the furious activity presumably going on in [...]
