Lead Truck Auction Changes for 2015

As we hope you are all excited for, our Annual Lead Truck Auction is back this year and we think it will run smoother than ever! This will probably be one of the more thrilling Racedays in recent history, so you won’t want to miss out on a chance to see the whole race this year.

There are a couple significant changes we are making this year that we want to make sure you know before things get underway. If you have any questions, be sure to email us or comment below, we want to address as much as we can before the Auction. Continue reading

Introducing your Raceday Panelists – Part 1

Now that Carnival is just on the horizon, it’s time to let you guys in on what we’ve been cooking up for you. In this first installment, we introduce to you our first three panelists who will be on stage Friday after the races at 2pm. They will be asked questions by our moderator and then also open for questions from you in the audience. So if you’ve ever wanted to ask a question of someone you see here, be sure to show up!

Below we hear from our more experienced panelists as they tell us a bit about themselves. Some of these names you might recognize from other events and even right here on cmubuggy.

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2015 – off to the races

It’s been a while since we’ve gotten a post up but it’s time that we get started. Due to the oppressive cold still here in the burgh, the first planned rolls for this weekend have been preemptively cancelled. This will give teams a bit longer to get things organized and hopefully a bit more time to finish up any new buggies that they have been working on. As well as allowing the remaining snow and ice to melt that still litters the course.

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Buggy Crash Testing SURG

Now that rolls are hibernating until spring, it’s time to bring back some of the mid-week posts starting with a fun new buggy research project. Apex driver Rachael Schmitt (the same driver that built the wooden buggy B1R with CIA) will be analyzing buggy crashes from previous years and plans to conduct a few tests of her own.

Below is an except from an email that I got from her where she explains a bit more about what she’ll be doing and where she could use some help from the buggy community (i.e. you guys). Continue reading

New Obstacles on the course

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

Welcome to the 95th year of Buggy!

Hey guys,

Orientation is almost over and classes are about to begin which means that we have a few weeks before the 95th year of buggy rolls! Are you ready? We will be, and we’ll be making a few adjustments to the site for this year.

First off, for any of you freshmen that made your way here, Welcome! We hope you found the “What is Buggy” event informative and we encourage you to look through the Video and gallery sections to help you get an idea of what it’s like to be a part of this amazing sport. If you have any questions, feel free to post them here and our community would be more than happy to answer them for you.

Along those lines, our current forum system has been having some troubles, so we are going to try turning the reddit based Project Zone into our new forum system. If this works well, we’ll keep it there, otherwise we’ll use that until we can fix our current system. We will be freezing the current forum and keep it accessible for anyone that wants to peruse the old conversations.

Lastly, before rolls possibly happen, we are planning our own Globally plaid event that will mimic the design comp panel we had last carnival. The only difference is this time we will be doing it over a google hangout with Buggy people from around the globe. We are still figuring out who all will be involved so if you’re interested in participating, please let us know!

That’s all for now, What are you looking forward to this year?

Congrats Graduates! and other news

Hey Graduates, let me in no way be the first to congratulate you on a job well done! Thanks for a very exciting year and we hope to see you back for all the Carnivals and Homecomings to come. If you missed your opportunity to become a member with our senior deal, shoot us an email at join@cmubuggy.org and we’ll see about getting you a membership. We’ve got a lot of big plans and we want to get started as soon as we can. To make that happen we need your help.

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