{"id":501,"date":"2009-09-21T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?p=501"},"modified":"2023-09-03T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T21:12:58","slug":"rolls-report-919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2009\/09\/rolls-report-919\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Report 9\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One nice day in September is a great way to start the year of buggy. \u00a0It&#8217;s early enough to capitalize on all that recruiting momentum and good weather. \u00a0At the same time, the G20 superseded\u00a0rolls (and everything else in pittsburgh) Sunday and next weekend. \u00a0That give us all time to adapt to the fact that buggy happens way to damn early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Rolls started right on time which I always think is a good metric on which to evaluate new sweepstakes committees. \u00a0 \u00a0Only 8 of the 14 teams on the roll order made it out, with SigNu being the most notable absence. \u00a0 The starting line ups for the year were:<br \/>\n&#8211; Spirit : Haraka and Seraph<br \/>\n&#8211; SDC : Psychosis, Malice, Rage<br \/>\n&#8211; Fringe : Blizzard, Bantam, Bedlam, Banyan<br \/>\n&#8211; CIA : Firebird, Conquest, Quasar<br \/>\n&#8211; AEPi : Kamikaze, Zephyrus and Camo<br \/>\n&#8211; PiKA : Knightfall and Zeus<br \/>\n&#8211; PhiKap : Svengali and\u00a0Schadenfreude<br \/>\n&#8211; SigEp : Barracuda and Pandora<\/p>\n<p>Observations (<a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-19\">Full gallery of pictures here<\/a>)<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SDC, Fringe, and SigEp were going pretty fast already. All three got at least a few windows on their fast buggy.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-19\/i-vchHJC3\/0\/c64fce6c\/Th\/DSC_0128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Fringe had Bantam out with very stylish plaid on its out-rigged left fairing. It&#8217;s the first time Bantam had been seen on the course since it <a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?p=66\">hit the curb near the transition flag last fall.<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-19\/i-rmmLjd2\/0\/c3e659f9\/Th\/DSC_0179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>PiKA (I believe Knightfall) hit a curb in the chute. \u00a0I was at the top of the hill so I don&#8217;t have a first hand account of things. \u00a0I don&#8217;t believe it was serious since I didn&#8217;t hear anything else about it and they were going pretty slow. \u00a0I will however use it as an opportunity for my annual complaint that the hay bales are dangerously poorly\u00a0distributed. \u00a0 Bales should go well around both the inside and outside corners, not 75 yards down the straightaway. \u00a0 Zeus also had a controlled stop in the chute.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">CIA had what sounded like a scary incident on the back hills with a driver hitting a parked car when the driver was blinded by the rising sun. \u00a0According to reports though, the buggy did a good job protecting the driver and won&#8217;t be out of service long.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-19\/i-vMSd9ZL\/0\/2c99d593\/Th\/DSC_0127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Spirit had a tire blow out right after hill 2. \u00a0Pneumatics still offer a decent option for racing, but man, you couldn&#8217;t pay me to run a buggy team and deal with the\u00a0maintenance\u00a0and replacement costs of pneumatics these days.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-19\/i-cRS7hcV\/0\/3c880e52\/Th\/DSC_0200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>AEPi had Camo and Zephyrus stop unintentionally on their way down the hill. \u00a0Camo could be heard quietly begging to be retired.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-19\/i-CD3NvgC\/0\/65f50672\/Th\/DSC_0229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Speaking of buggy retirement, there are quite a few buggies out that are refusing to call it a career. \u00a0Conquest (&#8217;92),\u00a0Schaddy (&#8217;94),\u00a0Haraka (&#8217;95), Rage(&#8217;96), and\u00a0Zeus (&#8217;00) have all paid their dues and continue to make it out in favor of newer siblings. \u00a0Fringe missed the memo about throwback day and left Brazen in the garage.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Sept-19\/i-vGtSfvm\/0\/c9a92c5b\/Th\/DSC_0271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Campus police decided that having a huge pile of flammable barricade building blocks a few hundred yards from one of the G20 event sites (Phipps) wasn&#8217;t a good idea and made sweepstakes move them off campus. \u00a0So just a week or so after they arrived, sweepstakes had to rent a U-Haul and with Fringe and Spirit&#8217;s help move them all to sit in front of someone&#8217;s house for the week. \u00a0What a hassle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The plan for this year is to publish these rolls reports each Monday morning after weekends with rolls. \u00a0That way all you eager readers have something to look forward to on otherwise dreary Monday mornings and don&#8217;t have to check the news section every 10 minutes all Sunday. \u00a0The pictures are usually posted shortly after they are 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