playlist<\/a>\u00a0from this weekend and let me know if there are other things that you’d like to see during rolls, or if there are other places I should set up for a while. If you watch through the end of sunday, you’ll notice the quality jump immensely after I found the HQ button. This isn’t full HD, but it is significantly better than what I’ve been streaming so far. Expect all future casts to be much more visible now.<\/p>\nThere was a lot going on this weekend, so it’s more than likely that I’ve missed something. Feel free to add it in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After finally starting rolls last week, Teams were getting back into the swing of things. Everyone was rolling well, but it seems like teams are getting in a semester’s worth of stops in these few weeks we have left.\u00a0Despite the crashes, stops, wheel losses and other issues, most teams are still getting things done and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9594,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/9594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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After finally starting rolls last week, Teams were getting back into the swing of things. Everyone was rolling well, but it seems like teams are getting in a semester’s worth of stops in these few weeks we have left.\u00a0Despite the crashes, stops, wheel losses and other issues, most teams are still getting things done and already have a few combinations qualified for Raceday. We still have one weekend left before Truck weekend, here’s hoping teams can sort out their issues and become the lean mean racing machines they need to be.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2012-2013\/Spring-Rolls-March-30\/i-Qb2fwh4\/0\/c29e0564\/Th\/SpringRolls-20130330-00054-Th.jpg\")
This weekend saw some of the slowest rolls this year with no one thing to really pin it on. Saturday had a few incidents, but things were mostly just slow for some reason. SigEp was the first incident of the day where “Dora” pulled a 180 in the Chute, or just before when trying to stop due to some visibility issues. At the top of the hill, Spirit had something go wrong with Kingpin II before making it up hill one. It was hard to see from where I was standing, but it looked like a wheel had fallen off or some other wheel issue. Later in the day, Fuko got pushed off hill 2 but barely made it halfway down the first hill before losing a rear wheel and spinning around. Spirit quickly recovered and moved Fuko off the course to allow the rest of their buggies to roll. They almost left the two-wheeled Fuko stranded on the sidewalk before getting a loud reminder from sweepstakes.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2012-2013\/Spring-Rolls-March-31\/i-6HqBT8z\/0\/27c92912\/Th\/SpringRolls-20130331-00017-Th.jpg\")
Sunday had a similar number of scary incidents that brought rolls to a screeching halt. CIA has been trying out some new fairings on Freyja and tried them out on Ascension as well. Ascension was sent first and everything seemed good until after two buggies were sent behind her and word came that she had come to a complete stop before the chute. Apparently the Fairing on the outer wheel was not rotationally constrained well and rotated around the wheel where it got stuck underneath the wheel like a ski. The follow car was there to help, but without an extraction kit, they were asked to just move all three buggies off the course so rolls could continue. It seemed a little odd that the two buggies behind weren’t allowed to be pushed through, but CIA seemed very\u00a0embarrassed\u00a0for the whole situation. Later on Sunday, Spirit was working on a pass test, but the passing buggy seemed to miss her line at the transition flag and instead found the pedestrian ramp. Pandora made this same\u00a0maneuver last year, but this time,\u00a0\u00a0Fuko found the light post and from the chute it looked like she pole-vaulted and fell to her side. Fortunately the driver was fine and was even able to pull herself out of the buggy. The only other thing I saw that day was at the finish line which didn’t slow down rolls at all, but Chimera hit a deep pothole. The sound that Chimera made was a little scary, but it looks like only one of their fairings fell off.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2012-2013\/Spring-Rolls-March-30\/i-xdG2CcF\/0\/f2cdc4ec\/Th\/SpringRolls-20130330-00033-Th.jpg\")
With all the incidents, it was somewhat hard to keep track of other things that were going on around the course, but from what I can remember, we had the usual couple bikers and runners on the course, but the real surprise was a man in a motorized wheelchair who made his way up Hill one and turned up Schenley Drive. I don’t think I’d seen something like this before, but he didn’t seem to have a care in the world. Another annoyance came when someone parked in the Scaife lot insisted on getting out out a half hour before rolls ended. This wouldn’t normally be a problem since they can exit through Roberts Drive, but because of the construction of the new building, their only option is to leave via Frew, fortunately they were able to wait a little and got out between rolls. The other fun car issue that came up is the reason that we have double barricades on most roads. Coming up Schenley from Pitt, the car didn’t see the barricade, or was just going too fast to react and ran into the outer barricade knocking it over.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2012-2013\/Spring-Rolls-March-30\/i-njtp2VZ\/0\/126c88f7\/Th\/SpringRolls-20130330-00090-Th.jpg\")
The good news for teams is that many of them have been getting in their much needed pass tests. Many of the top 10 from last year have gotten their pass tests and are close if not already qualified for Raceday. Surprisingly, Fringe has completed no pass tests, and Spirit and Pike have only gotten their pass tests for their new buggies. With their one buggy, Apex is the only org to be completely done with pass tests, but Phoneix will need a few more rolls to qualify for Raceday. AEPi continues to look less and less interested as SAE, who has only been out for one weekend, has gotten in 5 rolls with their one driver to AEPi’s 3 rolls which is split between two. Still no sign of ROTC, but word is they are looking for an experienced driver to help get them to Raceday.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2012-2013\/Spring-Rolls-March-31\/i-w4PPck9\/0\/5e81646c\/Th\/DSCN1552-Th.jpg\")
We are now 2 weekends away from raceday, where one of those is Truck weekend and some teams still are quite a way from being qualified. \u00a0As a surprise to me, SAE even has a new buggy that they tried to cape, but weren’t able to get it out this weekend. Fringe finally brought out their new buggy on sunday this weekend for all of two rolls. Even more surprising is Bonsai with only 4 rolls this semester and no pass test where the driver Becky has been in Bedlam and Banyan as well. I don’t know what Fringe is up to, but it seems like they are splitting up their practice even though we are very low on time. I mentioned them previously, but AEPi has only been rolling Kamikaze and has rolled with two separate drivers each of the two days that they have come out getting 1 and 2 rolls for their first and second days respectively. If they continue this trend, I don’t know how they will be allowed to race on Raceday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n