{"id":1154,"date":"2010-10-11T12:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T16:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2023-09-04T07:53:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T12:53:42","slug":"rolls-report-oct-9-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/10\/rolls-report-oct-9-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Report: Oct 9 &#038; 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Spirit rolling\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-10\/i-PGQFr8J\/0\/3daafa73\/Th\/rolls_2010_10_10-23-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>More perfect fall weather set the scene for a solid weekend of rolls with a SDC, Spirit, SigEp, AEPi, and the citizens of Pittsburgh stepping up and giving us some things to talk about.<\/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>Kamikaze<\/td>\n<td>Kamikaze, Zephyrus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CIA<\/td>\n<td>Freyja, Renaissance, Firebird, Quasar<\/td>\n<td>Freyja, Renaissance, Firebird<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fringe<\/td>\n<td>Borealis, Bedlam, Banyan, Blizzard<\/td>\n<td>Borealis, Bedlam, Banyan, Blizzard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PiKA<\/td>\n<td>Nemesis, Chimera, Brimstone<\/td>\n<td>Nemesis, Chimera, Brimstone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pioneers<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Chaos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SDC<\/td>\n<td>Avarice, Malice, Psychosis,\u00a0Addiction, Rage<\/td>\n<td>Avarice, Malice, Psychosis, Addiction, Rage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SAE<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Rubicon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SigEp<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Peregrine, Barracuda, Pandora<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spirit<\/td>\n<td>Seraph, Fuko, Haraka<\/td>\n<td>Seraph, Fuko, Haraka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Observations<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-9\">Saturday gallery<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-10\">Sunday gallery<\/a>)<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Avarice spun and de-wheeled\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-10\/i-WcndkMW\/0\/64a15a9c\/Th\/P1030144-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"2-wheeled Addiction\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-9\/i-Db5DhsF\/0\/7c12907f\/Th\/DSCF7055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SDC is having some real trouble keeping their wheels on the buggy. \u00a0Two weeks ago, we saw Avarice&#8217;s stubs bend significantly \u00a0after a near-spin late in the chute. \u00a0This week on Saturday, Addiction made it through the initial chute turn and was approaching the bend at Scaife when the right rear wheel came off and it skidded to a stop. \u00a0Observers noted that it wasn&#8217;t that the wheel simply fell off, but that the whole stub came off and the wheel was still attached to the stub. \u00a0Then on Sunday Avarice ended up in a similar position &#8211; pointing the wrong direction with one wheel off and the other attachment badly bent. \u00a0I try not to editorialize too much, but wheel attachment is a basic competency, and whatever materials \/ attachment modes they are using seem like they should be attracting safety chair attention at this point. \u00a0Shaving those last 8 ounces will not win you the race, use something strong and reliable!<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><strong>Update<\/strong>: It has been pointed out that there was a really big pothole near where addiction lost its wheel that was subsequently filled before Sunday&#8217;s rolls. \u00a0So it&#8217;s likely that the pothole was the cause of the wheel loss and it didn&#8217;t just fall off. \u00a0I guess that&#8217;s an important part of the story, but I stand by my argument that wheels shouldn&#8217;t be knock-offable.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Spirit spin\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-9\/i-DpnqwqQ\/0\/41c69673\/Th\/P1030068-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Spirit&#8217;s yellow buggy (sorry, that&#8217;s terrible reporting, but I haven&#8217;t had a chance to memorize the new colors yet this year) had a spin in the chute. \u00a0It was a fairly slow spin as the tail just kept coming around then slowly rolled tail first in the bales. \u00a0Sound familiar? \u00a0It is pretty familiar because Spirit&#8217;s buggies seem to always be on the edge of this fairly harmless oversteer situation. \u00a0Something in the weight distribution or tire compounds is going to have to change before they can count on a raceday without DNFs. \u00a0 The buggy rolled again later in the day.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"dog walker in the chute\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-10\/i-7pmr2f4\/0\/57824735\/Th\/rolls_2010_10_10-34-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"bike via flip\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-10\/i-5sWztsv\/0\/9febf101\/Th\/Buggy%20level%20view.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Flip cameras are popular again this year which gave us this great shot of a stray biker on the course just ahead of a rolling buggy courtesty of AEPi. \u00a0Fringe also had a near-miss when a dog walker crossed the chute just as Borealis was hitting the chute flag. \u00a0Some folks are just never going to listen (apparently the dog walker dismissed many warnings and commands and pointed out he was &#8220;just going over here to the hill&#8221; ) but obviously there is always room for improvement in the barricading and communication department.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"way too close!\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-10\/i-MgrT6XT\/0\/9031c91e\/Th\/Biker%20close.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Update<\/strong>: apparently the cam footage of the biker is from CIA&#8217;s Firebird and the incident was a bit more of a close call than I realized. \u00a0The biker came onto the course from the Westinghouse pond area and merged obliviously right in front of the buggy. \u00a0The driver braked some, but when the rider heard something behind him he slowed down and got more in the way causing the driver to end up against the curb as she came to a stop. \u00a0With those details it sounds a bit more serious and that a stern talking to is in order for those barricaders and all orgs involved in keeping hazards off the course.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Pandora's magical hatch\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-10\/i-bGMXBZj\/0\/842f3764\/Th\/rolls_2010_10_10-10-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The front hatch on SigEp&#8217;s Pandora fell off on the back hills, but they were undeterred. \u00a0Somehow they managed to continue pushing the buggy at full speed for the rest of the course with the hatch just sliding on the ground in front of the nose of the buggy. \u00a0I&#8217;m actually pretty curious &#8230; \u00a0If this happened on raceday, would it be considered loss of mass?<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"AEPi's 2x4 pushbar\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-10\/i-h3Dxx45\/0\/00b07052\/Th\/P1030109-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>AEPi brought out Zephyrus with a pushbar made of a 2&#215;4. \u00a0Even the handle was a 2&#215;4. \u00a0I can&#8217;t figure out why this would be a\u00a0desirable\u00a0solution to any problem, and it&#8217;s too early to suspect a prank from the booth-oriented members of the house. \u00a0Did the original pushbar fail sometime that us alumni didn&#8217;t notice? \u00a0Was there nothing more suitable available in the whole house? \u00a0 <strong>Update<\/strong>: \u00a0a reader filled me in on a couple of interesting details on the case of the lumber pushbar. \u00a0Zephyrus&#8217; metal pushbar broke on the first day of the year although not in a very exciting or easily visible manner. \u00a0That explains why it hasn&#8217;t been on the course for the last couple of weeks. \u00a0The mechanics made an attempt at a composite pushbar, but that apparently snapped during capes. \u00a0What we saw this weekend is a try at a 3rd, more reliable (perhaps less permanent) solution.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">SAE was back out with Rubicon on Sunday for the first time since the very first day of rolls this year. \u00a0They now have 2 drivers each with 2 rolls sharing one buggy. \u00a0That doesn&#8217;t sound like the shortest route to driver qualification, but hey, there are still 6 months before that&#8217;s an issue.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">One observer noted, &#8220;if buggy was decided based upon volume you&#8217;d have a close race between pika (brimstone), cia and spirit. they were all turned up to 11.&#8221; \u00a0We keep talking about doing an all-audio report from rolls.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">SDC brought Psychosis out for the first time this year. \u00a0It was their Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s B team buggy in &#8217;09 and &#8217;10 (and A team before that) so had been surprised not to see it out in previous weeks.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">Freeroll times were similar to last week which is to say that Fringe, SDC, and PiKA were pushing it the fastest but nobody was putting down their A-game. \u00a0SigEp is still hanging out in the almost-top-tier territory. \u00a0Spirit set their season-best time on Sunday but is still a 4-5 seconds off the cluster of best times. \u00a0 AEPi set all of their best times of the fall this weekend with Kamikaze, but those are well behind the previously mentioned folks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks very much to revo, hvincent, crstengel, and aepibuggy this week for helping out with great observations and pictures while I was out of town again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More perfect fall weather set the scene for a solid weekend of rolls with a SDC, Spirit, SigEp, AEPi, and the citizens of Pittsburgh stepping up and giving us some things to talk about. In Attendance (buggies listed newest to oldest) Org Saturday Sunday AEPi Kamikaze Kamikaze, Zephyrus CIA Freyja, Renaissance, Firebird, Quasar Freyja, Renaissance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9466,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/9466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}