{"id":596,"date":"2009-11-09T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?p=596"},"modified":"2023-09-03T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T21:42:19","slug":"rolls-report-117-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2009\/11\/rolls-report-117-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Report 11\/7 &#038; 11\/8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-8\/i-HcdwhW3\/0\/7a96dfa5\/Th\/IMG_6822-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Pittsburgh finally let buggy have a nice dry course for the weekend, so CMU stepped up and provided the torrents of water on Sunday. \u00a0Thanks CMU! \u00a0Saturday was sunny, 40-45 degrees, and over 2 hours long thanks to the end of day light savings. \u00a0Sweepstakes got through the roll order 3 full times despite a fair number of stoppages. \u00a0The first 40 minutes of Sunday went smoothly, but then <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-8\">Porter Hall decided to burst and spew disturbingly brown water out onto hill 3<\/a>. \u00a0In just minutes the sidewalk, hill 3, and the outside of the chute were thoroughly flooded.<\/p>\n<p>Mini-raceday is next weekend!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Attendance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CIA &#8211; Conquest, Firebird,\u00a0Renaissance<\/li>\n<li>AEPi &#8211; Kamikaze, Zephyrus<\/li>\n<li>DTD <em>(Sat only)<\/em> &#8211; Bethany<\/li>\n<li>SAE <em>(Sun only)<\/em>&#8211; Rubicon<\/li>\n<li>SigEp &#8211; Barracuda, Pandora<\/li>\n<li>Spirit &#8211; Seraph, Fuko<\/li>\n<li>SigNu <em>(Sat only)<\/em> &#8211; Skua<\/li>\n<li>PhiKap &#8211; Schadenfreude, Svengali, Celerity<\/li>\n<li>SDC &#8211; Malice, Psychosis, Envy, Rage<\/li>\n<li>PiKA &#8211; Zeus, Wyvern, Nemesis<\/li>\n<li>Fringe -Banyan, Bedlam, Blizzard, Bantam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Observations<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-7\">full Saturday gallery here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-7\/i-S65DSXF\/0\/2ccb59cf\/Th\/DSC_1576-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Zeus went wide and hit the outer bales pretty hard, but the doubled up bales did their job. \u00a0The driver had a bit of cut lip, but was quick to say she was fine. \u00a0Zeus was rolling with the Zero Error wheels seen on Knightfall last week at the time. \u00a0Perhaps new wheels\/compound created an understeer problem?<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-7\/i-DpWxN9x\/0\/c8b504ba\/Th\/DSC_1535-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>DTD had a rough day, going 1 for 3 on rolls. \u00a0On their first roll they were going a bit quicker than usual and the driver cut it in too quickly and pulled a clean 180 in the middle of the chute without hitting anything. \u00a0On their 3rd roll, she had helmet related visibility problems shortly after the transition flag. \u00a0She tried to hit the breaks but in that effort she jerked the steering left and the curb ended up doing the stopping for her.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-7\/i-53S6Sd9\/0\/a4a77b0a\/Th\/DSC_1566-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SDC had an April fools caliber &#8220;spin&#8221; in the chute. \u00a0Someone said over their org radio channel &#8220;Psychosis spun in the chute&#8221; which caused their follow car, their flagger, and the sweepstakes car all to jump into action racing to the aid of the buggy. \u00a0Only thing was, Psychosis actually made it through the chute fine and was on its way up the back hills. \u00a0The result was a lot of frantic searching for a buggy that seemingly crashed so badly that it vanished.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">Spirit&#8217;s Fuko blew a tire on the mild asphalt patch just past the apex of the chute. \u00a0Seraph stopped like a champ right at the chute flag even though the hill 3 pusher had already moved Fuko to the side of the road.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">Despite very professional and much improved flagging, a car managed to sneak on to the course between orgs. Apparently it had been parked in the driveway behind the Schenley park visitor&#8217;s center. \u00a0The safety chair (who hangs out in the chute during rolls for faster response) quickly jumped in his own car and confronted the intruder as they approached the chute.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">SDC, Fringe, and SigEp look like the only teams on the course that are getting ready for a race. \u00a0Perhaps the rainy weather has slowed down driver training, but with mini-raceday just a week away, most orgs are going to have to switch modes quickly to put together a semi-realistic lap. \u00a0CIA was actually rolling faster than SigEp, but SigEp was putting together some solid looking push teams. \u00a0SDC and Fringe were clearly the fastest rolling teams on the course this weekend. \u00a0PiKA is obviously the salient omission from that list. \u00a0They did have some decent rolls a couple of weeks ago, but they seem to be wrapped up in some elaborate testing \/ experimentation routine that involves pulling cards from a deck to determine which buggies from the garage to roll each weekend.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-7\/i-rLJ4n4g\/0\/08acc195\/Th\/DSC_1601-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>PhiKap brought out Celerity for the first time in quite a while. \u00a0According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pktracing.com\/\">PKTracing.com<\/a>, it last raced in 2004. \u00a0Anyone know if that was when it last rolled?\u00a0\u00a0Interesting that PhiKap is dedicating the resources to bringing out a third buggy, but they do have 4 drivers caped, so maybe they&#8217;re just trying to find a ride for all of their ladies.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Fall-Rolls-Nov-7\/i-F3L59Cw\/0\/63c29a70\/Th\/DSC_1612-Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Fringe&#8217;s Bantam was rolling on a white tire compound, possibly for the first time. \u00a0Bantam&#8217;s front and rear fairings make it tough to glean too much more about the tire during rolls, but that white is high-contrast and hard to miss. \u00a0Perhaps the same white compound that SDC has been rolling on <a href=\"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/News\/?p=281\">since last March<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh finally let buggy have a nice dry course for the weekend, so CMU stepped up and provided the torrents of water on Sunday. \u00a0Thanks CMU! \u00a0Saturday was sunny, 40-45 degrees, and over 2 hours long thanks to the end of day light savings. \u00a0Sweepstakes got through the roll order 3 full times despite a [&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-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9872,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/9872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}