{"id":1110,"date":"2010-09-24T00:13:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T04:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2023-09-03T11:07:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:07:39","slug":"rolls-report-first-fall-rolls-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/09\/rolls-report-first-fall-rolls-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Report: First fall rolls 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"foggy rolls\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-18\/i-TQsPHqt\/0\/0d7b9f4a\/Th\/DSC_5889-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Now that I&#8217;ve built some serious suspense by coming out with this report 4 days late, I hope it lives up to the hype. \u00a0Sorry for the delay, don&#8217;t get out of the habit of checking on monday mornings. \u00a0We&#8217;ll get back on schedule.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an established fact now, electing the sweepstakes committee in the spring is the way to go. \u00a0In the past, a new committee would scramble to figure out what was going on through September and rolls would usually start sometime in the second half of October. \u00a0Last year worked well, but it could have been a fluke. \u00a0But for the second year in a row now, rolls have gone off without a hitch on the 3rd weekend of September. \u00a0It&#8217;s also worth noting that things weren&#8217;t just running, they were running smoothly. \u00a0Barricades were out; people were doing their chores or covering for others as needed; only the weather held things up. \u00a0The course was blanketed in some serious fog on Saturday that kindly\u00a0dissipated\u00a0so that CIA could take the first rolls of the year with some visibility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Attendance<\/strong> (buggies listed newest to oldest)<\/p>\n<table class=\"data\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; height: 269px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Org<\/th>\n<th>Saturday<\/th>\n<th>Sunday<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AEPi<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Kamikaze, Zephyrus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CIA<\/td>\n<td>Freyja, Renaissance, Firebird<\/td>\n<td>Freyja, Renaissance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fringe<\/td>\n<td>Borealis,\u00a0Banyan, Blizzard<\/td>\n<td>Borealis,\u00a0Banyan, Blizzard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PiKA<\/td>\n<td>Nemesis,\u00a0Chimera, Knightfall, Zeus<\/td>\n<td>Nemesis,\u00a0Chimera, Zeus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SAE<\/td>\n<td>Rubicon<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SDC<\/td>\n<td>Malice, Rage<\/td>\n<td>Avarice, Addiction, Rage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SigEp<\/td>\n<td>Peregrine, Barracuda, Pandora<\/td>\n<td>Peregrine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spirit<\/td>\n<td>Fuko, Haraka<\/td>\n<td>Seraph, Fuko<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Observations<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-18\">Saturday gallery<\/a>)<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"hill 5 shove\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-18\/i-Qdqpq3K\/0\/4c765770\/Th\/DSC_5926-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"capri tent\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-18\/i-Qjg4Qrj\/0\/0eeb1469\/Th\/DSC_6002-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Things were generally surprisingly smooth, but there were plenty of signs that a new crop of pushers, drivers, and mechanics were on the scene. \u00a0I saw a number of buggies shoved enthusiastically across the finish line and some that finished about 50 yards ahead of their hill 5. \u00a0One new driver gently braked near the stop sign when she was unsure which way to go, but then finished her roll after a\u00a0reassuring\u00a0nudge from one of the follow car passengers. \u00a0One of my favorites was the haphazard collection of newspapers taped to the bottom of PiKA&#8217;s tent to cover the gap left by a frame that got larger or a tent that shrunk in the wash.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"fringe paintjob\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-18\/i-DSBWnwR\/0\/611d0fb0\/Th\/DSC_5910-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Fringe found time to finish painting Borealis over the summer and went with some of that trippy color-changing green &#8211;&gt; purple stuff. \u00a0It&#8217;s not as visually shocking as you might have thought (at least in the current implementation), but it did make me do a double take when I saw it.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"blue tires\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-18\/i-z69GTj5\/0\/592427c6\/Th\/DSC_5898-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"red tires\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-18\/i-Vsf3HLG\/0\/5fbd6255\/Th\/DSC_5922-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"firebird in the bales\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-18\/i-t9zmbFg\/0\/6cf4296c\/Th\/DSC_6001-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>CIA was rolling on both red and blue rubber that I don&#8217;t recall seeing last year, but I could be wrong. \u00a0Rolls ended on Saturday with Firebird in the inside bales just past the apex. \u00a0A new driver was at the helm and things may have gotten too quick too fast, but CIA is generally a paragon of safety-first training. \u00a0It seemed to me that she hit one of the growing collection of ruts right at the point where CIA buggies are almost always doing their bad-ass oversteer maneuver. \u00a0It only takes a bit of a bump to upset the balance at that moment. \u00a0The driver was fine and sounded undeterred by her first day experience.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">Fringe had a pair of chute incidents on Sunday to start off their year on a sobering note. \u00a0First, one of their new drivers ended up in the outer bales in Blizzard with enough force to knock the hatch off. \u00a0She was OK, but did end up with some scratches to welcome her to the sport. \u00a0On the next roll, Borealis had a mechanical failure of some sort that brought it to a halt in the chute. \u00a0They couldn&#8217;t push it on, so they had to unload the driver there.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">SAE scratched midway through Saturday and didn&#8217;t come back on Sunday, but I didn&#8217;t hear any explanatory narrative. \u00a0Hope Rubicon is holding together.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">What about the orgs that haven&#8217;t been mentioned? \u00a0That&#8217;s a good thing this time of year! \u00a0They got out to rolls, got down the hill without crashing, and had enough pushers out to get back up. \u00a0We&#8217;ll delve deeper into the finer points as the semester progresses.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"spirit\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-18\/i-GvK3W8v\/0\/fff38970\/Th\/DSC_5891-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The average buggy in this year&#8217;s starting lineup is in its 6th year which seems a bit on the old side, but I&#8217;m too lazy to compare it to last year. \u00a0With PhiKap and SN out of the running, Spirit has an easy claim on the most &#8220;experienced&#8221; fleet this year with Haraka and Fuko both hailing from the mid 90&#8217;s. \u00a0 Rage, Rubicon and Zeus also deserve mention for making it back out in the 10+ category and looking pretty good while they&#8217;re at it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to Katherine Crawford for notes on Sunday&#8217;s events that I didn&#8217;t make it out to see.<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear: right;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve built some serious suspense by coming out with this report 4 days late, I hope it lives up to the hype. \u00a0Sorry for the delay, don&#8217;t get out of the habit of checking on monday mornings. \u00a0We&#8217;ll get back on schedule. 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