Rolls Report: Sept 27 – Great Race Weekend

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It was another one day weekend for buggy this time because of the conflict with the Great Race that consumes most of the length of Forbes ave. Not to be deterred, teams made a fantastic showing on Saturday with a few surprises from some of them. Like the first weekend, everything rolled smoothly with only one major mishap early in the morning and even that is hard to call major.

In Attendance 

Org Saturday
AEPi Kamikaze
Apex Phoenix
CIA Icarus, Impulse, Orca, Ascension
Fringe Beacon, Bissa
PiKA Raptor
SDC Vice, Malice, Rage
SigEp Mamba, Barracuda, Pandora
SigNu Bungarus Krait, Skua
Spirit Zuke, Seraph, Haraka
Robo Robobuggy

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Rolls Report: Sept 21 – First Rolls of 2014-15 season

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This weekend was the first rolls of the season and I unfortunately was out of town and missed the whole thing. Fortunately, Dan Marsh was around to pick up the ball and got me a bunch of notes from this weekend. Unfortunately I haven’t gotten any pictures from this weekend, so I’ll do my best to paint you a word picture.

Rolls didn’t have a chance of happening on Saturday since there were no permits. The morning was pretty chilly compared to what it could have been the day before, but of course it should only get colder the rest of the year. This was also the first time that teams had to deal with the new barriers around the bike lane, but more on that later. From some accounts, this was one of the smoothest first days of rolls ever seen.

In Attendance 

Org Sunday
AEPi Kamikaze
Apex Phoenix
CIA Icarus, Impulse, Orca, Ascension
Fringe Beacon, Bissa
PiKA Raptor
SAE Lucy
SDC Avarice, Malice, Rage
SigEp Barracuda
Spirit Zuke, Seraph
Robo  Robobuggy

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New Obstacles on the course

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IMG_0207Hope you all had a happy Labor day. Because of it, we took the day off from our Monday posts, so now we’re giving you a Tuesday post.

For those of you that have contacts at CMU, you might have already heard about this. Having taken a walk down there myself this weekend, I saw what all the buzz was about. The City has added new bike lanes to Schenley drive which interferes from around the stop sign, all the way past the chute flag. This will be a new obstacle for drivers this year, but fortunately, sweepstakes was notified and instead of the permanent posts that the city was planning on using, they opted for the more expensive removable option placing the difference in price on sweepstakes. Continue reading →