![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-16\/i-frZCqHW\/0\/5494f1a2\/Th\/DSC_6350-Th.jpg\" "\\"Bedlam\\"")
Fringe was the fastest team on the course by a wide margin this weekend putting down a couple of the fastest times we’ve seen this semester with Bedlam leading the way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orgs decided that there would be no rolls on Sunday because of mid-semester break, and even Saturday was a minimal crew of the most dedicated folks (or maybe the folks least skilled at planning something fun for mid-semester break). \u00a0SDC took the weekend off, and most teams had fewer buggies than normal except CIA whose […]<\/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-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","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=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9462,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/9462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-16\/i-ZvF66TP\/0\/fa61dce4\/Th\/DSC_6376-Th.jpg\" "\\"Spirit")
Orgs decided that there would be no rolls on Sunday because of mid-semester break, and even Saturday was a minimal crew of the most dedicated folks (or maybe the folks least skilled at planning something fun for mid-semester break). \u00a0SDC took the weekend off, and most teams had fewer buggies than normal except CIA whose 4 rolling buggies represented 25% of those on the course. \u00a0The fall weather is starting to kick in as it was about 40 degrees out there, but we’re still getting lucky on the precipitation.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-16\/i-ZP2hJSB\/0\/69b65b5c\/Th\/DSC_6301-Th.jpg\" "\\"Borealis")
Fringe’s Borealis ended up in the same part of the bales as their first buggy down the hill, but it was a more serious collision. \u00a0Borealis came down hill going faster than pretty much anyone so far this semester and entered the chute well. \u00a0About half way through the turn something discrete happened (as opposed to a dynamic instability) and the buggy veered to the left. \u00a0She knocked two rows of bales well out of the way and smacked the curb at a pretty hard angle. \u00a0The driver – Fringe’s senior – was in some pain as she was extracted which made it a tough scene. \u00a0She was around later doing fine, and it turned out the primary injury was to her shoulders from being restrained by the harness in the crash. \u00a0That’s obviously not good, but it does suggest the harness did its job keeping her in place in a pretty high speed crash. \u00a0The buggy looked surprisingly intact with the exception of a cracked windshield.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-16\/i-SLdkw2B\/0\/6756744d\/Th\/DSC_6308-Th.jpg\" "\\"Zephyrus")
AEPi’s Zephyrus made the news last week with a pushbar and handle made of 2x4s. \u00a0At first glance it looked like they had modernized, but as the buggy rolled by it was clear that they had just painted the 2×4 black and replaced the handle with something properly cylindrical. \u00a0Hey, if it works, it works I guess. \u00a0I don’t think it can be the pushbar’s fault, but Zephyrus was also the slowest buggy on the course by a wide margin, topping 2 minutes on its freerolls. \u00a0That’s going to be hard to make up on the back hills.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-16\/i-tVZkQKm\/0\/aa1f43fe\/Th\/DSC_6310-Th.jpg\" "\\"Firebird")
CIA’s Firebird had a flipcamera mounted on its port side again this week, and although it didn’t catch any more super cool up-close biker shots, it did contribute to some drama. \u00a0Apparently someone at the top of the hill caught a glimpse of the strange part sticking out of the side of the Firebird and alerted sweepstakes that the axle was broken. \u00a0The safety chair jumped in his car and ended up following CIA’s follow car through the chute at which point Quasar’s driver coincidentally had a visibility problem and decided to pull off the course over by Scaife. \u00a0To the confused chute crowd it looked like the fastest safety chair response ever.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-16\/i-t5d26Kc\/0\/81eb9ff4\/Th\/DSC_6325-Th.jpg\" "\\"Spirit")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2010-2011\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-16\/i-xSzT4RK\/0\/f6c51308\/Th\/DSC_6324-Th.jpg\" "\\"Spirit")
Spirit made it through the chute every time this weekend, but both buggies were right on the edge of oversteer spins until their drivers saved it. \u00a0The powerslide approach does look super cool, so maybe I’ll stop complaining. \u00a0The pictures at right were taken 1 second apart as the buggy slid through the turn.<\/li>\n