{"id":716,"date":"2010-02-18T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=716"},"modified":"2010-02-18T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:55:38","slug":"thursday-poll-how-crazy-is-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/02\/thursday-poll-how-crazy-is-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Poll: How crazy is crazy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
With the snow we’ve been getting almost every day here in the ‘burgh it seems like we might be getting further from rolls rather than closer, so maybe I’ll stop talking about it. \u00a0Hope everyone is enjoying the polls in the mean time.<\/p>\n
This week’s topic is a nod to the furious activity\u00a0presumably\u00a0going on in a few of the garages around campus over the last couple of months: new buggy builds. \u00a0All builds are great for us observers because it us something new to talk about and adds another buggy name to our already strained memories, but some take it to the next level. \u00a0I’m not talking fastest-buggy-on-the-course though, I’m talking, “What the #$(*% did they do there?!” \u00a0Those buggy designs that turn heads when they hit the course, and then gather a crowd at design comp are the ones we’re honoring here. \u00a0I’m sure I’m missing some stellar contenders, but to make this list, the criteria were:<\/p>\n
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Built in the last 10 yearsish<\/li>\n
Featuring one specific visible design element worth talking about<\/li>\n
the key feature wasn’t just a badly done implementation of something normal, but a really wacky concept.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And the contenders are:<\/p>\n
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Brooklyn, Fringe (1998)<\/strong> : The backwards buggy. It wasn’t the first time someone had tried the luge format, and surely it won’t be the last, but it owned the late 90’s feet first movement.<\/td>\n
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Kamikaze, AEPi (2009)<\/strong> : The tallest short buggy, or, The shortest tall buggy there ever was. The shell design that always has me thinking, “optical illusion?” Nope those are the proportions.<\/td>\n
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Keres, Pioneers (2007)<\/strong> : Pimp My Ride<\/em>‘s buggy edition hit the course with the biggest rims and by far the biggest ride height. \u00a0It had an SUV-style rollover at capes, but nobody ever talked back when it said “get out da way”<\/td>\n
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Messiah, SigEp (2008)<\/strong> : At the other end of the spectrum, wheels so small nobody ever saw them. \u00a0Word was they were inline wheels, but who’s to say it wasn’t maglev or hovercraft tech.<\/td>\n
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Valkerie, Pioneers (2004)<\/strong> : the aluminum\u00a0aircraft strut airfoil pushbar was beautiful in its simplicty. $60 or so and you had a rock solid pushbar that would definitely do the job. \u00a0 The obvious next question is why not make 5 angled cuts and 5 welds to change that straight airfoil into an awkwardly curved one. \u00a0The worst part was they already had a buggy named Scorpion.<\/td>\n
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Wendigo, PiKA (2005)<\/strong> : How else could you complicate the pushbar? Why not make it so thin that it’s hard to see in pictures. \u00a0That way the buggy will be so light that nobody will need to push it!<\/td>\n
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Which recent buggy turned the most heads with its crazy design choices?<\/strong><\/p>
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Brooklyn : \"feet first for fast\" (48%, 20 Votes)<\/small>
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Valkerie : \"5 miter welds to KISS\" (26%, 11 Votes)<\/small>
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Keres : \"sittin on dos-two's\" (14%, 6 Votes)<\/small>
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Messiah : \"wheels smaller than every hole in the road\" (12%, 5 Votes)<\/small>
Wendigo : \"the pushbar that makes everyone feel adequate\" (0%, 0 Votes)<\/small>
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Total Voters: 42<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n
Nominate overlooked buggies in the comments and\/or send in suggestions for next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the snow we’ve been getting almost every day here in the ‘burgh it seems like we might be getting further from rolls rather than closer, so maybe I’ll stop talking about it. \u00a0Hope everyone is enjoying the polls in the mean time. This week’s topic is a nod to the furious activity\u00a0presumably\u00a0going on in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n![\"kamikaze\"](\"\/img\/news\/kamikaze.jpg\" "\\"Valkerie\\"")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n![\"keres\"](\"\/img\/news\/keres.jpg\" "\\"Valkerie\\"")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n![\"messiah\"](\"\/img\/news\/messiah.jpg\" "\\"Valkerie\\"")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n![\"Valkerie\"](\"\/img\/news\/valkerie.jpg\" "\\"Valkerie\\"")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n![\"wendigo\"](\"\/img\/news\/wendigo.jpg\" "\\"Valkerie\\"")
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