{"id":1752,"date":"2011-10-17T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2023-09-04T13:48:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T18:48:30","slug":"rolls-report-oct-15-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2011\/10\/rolls-report-oct-15-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Report: Oct 15 &#038; 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-15\/i-LDLQ7PX\/0\/c464b55f\/S\/DSC_0710-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Fall continues to cooperate, giving teams another dry weekend to get their routines down. \u00a0We&#8217;re definitely into hoodie weather now though, and leaves were blowing across all parts of the course like crazy. \u00a0SigNu was absent but a new team called Delta Force came close to joining the ranks of the rolling. \u00a0Read on for the nitty gritty.<\/p>\n<p>Rolls next weekend are tentative because of mid-semester break, so check our Freeroll Status indicator on the home page. \u00a0The following weekend is Ciehsdffkjhlskj \u00a0or whatever homecoming is now called and we&#8217;ve got some legitimately fun stuff in the works, so get ready.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Attendance<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"data\" border=\"0\">\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>\u00a0Kamikaze<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CIA<\/td>\n<td>Ascension, Freyja, Renaissance<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Ascension, Freyja, Renaissance, Quasar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fringe<\/td>\n<td>Bonsai, Borealis, Banyan<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Bonsai, Borealis, Banyan, Bedlam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>KapSig<\/td>\n<td>Apache<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Apache<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SDC<\/td>\n<td>Bane, Avarice, Malice, Rage<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0Bane, Avarice, Malice, Rage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SigEp<\/td>\n<td>Mamba, Barracuda, Pandora<\/td>\n<td>Mamba, Barracuda<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SigNu<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spirit<\/td>\n<td>Zuke, Seraph, Fuko<\/td>\n<td>Zuke, Seraph, Haraka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Observations<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-15\">Saturday Gallery<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-16\">Sunday Gallery<\/a>)\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-15\/i-SLKF2zb\/0\/bca80af0\/Th\/DSC_0623-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-15\/i-GcvpvKt\/0\/f7de540c\/Th\/DSC_0632-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Spirit continues to be the spinningest org in buggy with Zuke spinning twice on Saturday and Seraph once on Sunday. \u00a0They&#8217;re not sitting idly by though as I noticed experimentation on both the compound and profile of their tires this weekend. \u00a0On Saturday, Seraph and Fuko were rolling on the orange compound they&#8217;ve been using while Zuke&#8217;s tires were black. \u00a0The two on orange were also sporting what I believe is a new profile with beveled edges and a smaller contact patch. \u00a0Whatever Zuke was rolling on was pretty slippy stuff as she managed to put the buggy into a spin immediately after the chute flag on her second roll after a more traditional Spirit spin on roll 1.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-15\/i-Rz5FfHb\/0\/30a9ce03\/Th\/DSC_0659-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>KapSig is splitting rolls evenly between their veteran and new driver which I hope suggests that they are working on a build and planning on having two buggies this raceday. \u00a0We lauded Apache (and KapSig) as an impressive first build by a totally novice team, but I get the feeling it&#8217;s holding them back at this point. \u00a0Apache consistently needed helpful shoves near transition to make it down the hill on Saturday and is the slowest buggy on the course by a wide margin. \u00a0I heard talk of a rubbing brake, but the front wheels are also badly non-parallel in both dimensions and that can&#8217;t be helping.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-15\/i-vwcwg26\/0\/07afd194\/Th\/DSC_0633-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Teams are fairly occupied with driver training and getting everyone to come out, but it can also be a valuable R&amp;D opportunity. \u00a0Fall typically has many more rolls than spring, and there&#8217;s plenty of time to use data gathered in the fall to inform builds and wheel selections for spring. \u00a0CIA has had\u00a0something\u00a0electronic taped to the outrigged side of Ascension for a couple of weeks now, presumably collecting data. \u00a0On Saturday half the tape holding it on came loose and it was dragging on the road up the back hills. \u00a0I also noticed a USB cord dangling out the back of one of CIA&#8217;s buggies and a camera mounted on one of their pushbars. That&#8217;s quite the suite of electronics, they must have something cool going on. \u00a0Fringe had timers out at hill 2 and window 0 taking times on laptops with some custom buggy timing software. \u00a0With PiKA out for the moment, there are no &#8220;thumbs&#8221; on flagstaff, and I&#8217;ve never noticed SDC collecting data which seems unlikely so their system must be more discrete.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2011-2012\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-15\/i-Jzwzdwb\/0\/d97bd524\/Th\/DSC_0636-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>[Don&#8217;t forget to write something about SigEp]<\/li>\n<li>SigNu didn&#8217;t make it out either day after their rough start to the year last weekend. \u00a0Hopefully neither Skua nor their enthusiasm was too badly damaged and we&#8217;ll see them back out again soon.<\/li>\n<li>Delta Force (or DDDDTD as listed in the Sweepstakes spreadsheet) is a new co-ed greek joint effort between Tri-Delt and DTD. \u00a0They were apparently planning on making their debut on Sunday but scratched on the last day when some essential folks didn&#8217;t make it out. \u00a0The fraternity-sorority combo team doesn&#8217;t have a very high success rate historically (I think 0 such teams have made it to a second year), but then again, none of them have had a name as awesome as Delta Force, so hope this one will work out. \u00a0Let us know if you need any helpful pointers Delta Force.<\/li>\n<li>An aggressively driven car made it onto hill 1 on Saturday and made it around some buggies on hill 1 before being stopped by Sweepstakes at the top of the hill. \u00a0The barricaders weren&#8217;t sleeping on the job, but failed to anticipate the driver&#8217;s morning road rage and got out-maneuvered. \u00a0More physical barricades were added for Sunday and moving forward.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have any times or speeds to share this weekend, but Fringe and SDC both had at least one buggy rolling out well each roll with Fringe&#8217;s Bonsai going a bit faster if I had to eyeball it. \u00a0SigEp and CIA were also rolling at decent speeds.<\/li>\n<li>Rumor is that almost every team rolling this fall is working on a build so I&#8217;m already getting excited for spring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall continues to cooperate, giving teams another dry weekend to get their routines down. \u00a0We&#8217;re definitely into hoodie weather now though, and leaves were blowing across all parts of the course like crazy. \u00a0SigNu was absent but a new team called Delta Force came close to joining the ranks of the rolling. \u00a0Read on for [&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-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","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=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9558,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/9558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}