{"id":855,"date":"2010-03-24T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=855"},"modified":"2023-09-03T12:33:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T17:33:43","slug":"rolls-report-march-20-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/03\/rolls-report-march-20-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Report &#8211; March 20 &#038; 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"AEPi 2010\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Spring-Rolls-Mar-21\/i-HQ5F7F6\/0\/c8f6e943\/S\/IMG_7232-S.jpg\" alt=\"AEPi 2010\" \/>Two days of genuine good spring weather (45-50\u00b0F and mostly sunny) provided the first <em>real<\/em> weekend of rolls, and the teams made it an exciting one. \u00a0With three new buggies and enough incidents in the chute to make a driver blush, it took extra long to sort out and write about here at headquarters. \u00a0Our\u00a0apologies\u00a0for the delay, we plan on sticking to Monday mornings in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In attendance <\/strong>(<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">2010 buggies<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"data\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; height: 269px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\">\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>Kamikaze, Camo, <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>AEPi-2010<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Zephyrus, Kamikaze, AEPi-2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Beta<\/td>\n<td>Problem Child<\/td>\n<td>Problem Child<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CIA<\/td>\n<td>Firebird, Renaissance, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Freyja<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Freyja, Quasar, Conquest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fringe<\/td>\n<td>Bedlam,\u00a0Banyan, Bantam, Blizzard<\/td>\n<td>Bedlam,\u00a0Banyan, Bantam, Blizzard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>KKG \/ ZBT<\/td>\n<td>Volos<\/td>\n<td>Volos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PhiKap<\/td>\n<td>Schadenfreude, Celerity<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pioneers<\/td>\n<td>Chaos<\/td>\n<td>Chaos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PiKA<\/td>\n<td>Chimera, Nemesis, Zeus<\/td>\n<td>Chimera, Knightfall, Zeus, Nemesis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SAE<\/td>\n<td>Rubicon<\/td>\n<td>Rubicon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SDC<\/td>\n<td>Malice, Psychosis, Envy, Rage, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Avarice<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Malice, Psychosis, Envy, Rage,\u00a0Avarice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SigEp<\/td>\n<td>Barracuda, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Peregrine<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Pandora, Barracuda, Peregrine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SigNu<\/td>\n<td>Skua, Bungarus Krait<\/td>\n<td>Skua, Bungarus Krait, KoS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spirit<\/td>\n<td>Haraka, Fuko<\/td>\n<td>Seraph, Haraka, Fuko<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Observations<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Spring-Rolls-Mar-20\">Saturday gallery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Spring-Rolls-Mar-21\">Sunday gallery<\/a>)<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">AEPi brought out their yet-unamed new buggy, and it looks like a big leap in build quality. \u00a0As one commenter said, &#8220;KDR called, they want their buggy back.&#8221; \u00a0I&#8217;d venture to say that AEPi would take that as a compliment and they should. \u00a0This is their 3rd buggy in their 4 years of resurgence and while Kamikaze showed that they had figured out the composite fundamentals, this new buggy looks like it came out just how they designed it. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.smugmug.com\/2009-2010\/Spring-Rolls-Mar-21\/i-K4JBF4k\/A\">Weigh in on the name right here on cmubuggy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">CIA also debuted it&#8217;s new buggy, Freyja (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freyja\">a Norse mythological goddess<\/a>), their second new buggy in a row. \u00a0CIA has a lot more general build experience than AEPi, but when it comes to composite monocoque construction they are still about as green as it gets. \u00a0Freyja is their second attempt at modern buggy construction (sorry frame loyalists) after last year&#8217;s Renaissance, and it looks like they too got what they wanted out of the build process. \u00a0Freyja is a bit angular, but it&#8217;s\u00a0symmetric\u00a0and looks well formed. \u00a0The front wheels are classic CIA thin rubber, but the rear is <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">a pneumatic in the PiKA tradition<\/span> larger requiring that familiar wheel hump shape.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">SigEp also debuted their new buggy Peregrine. \u00a0There don&#8217;t seem to be any pictures of it yet, but word was that didn&#8217;t get off to a very quick start. \u00a0That could, of course, be the result of overly conservative mechanics slowing their new creation on purpose, but it needed to be pushed downhill more than once on Sunday. \u00a0More on Peregrine next week. \u00a0Cool name.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">KKG\/ZBT was out with their buggy which they have apparently renamed Volos (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volos\">as in the Greek city?<\/a>). \u00a0We don&#8217;t have much of a read on the co-ed Greek partnership since they only made it out once last semester, but it&#8217;s great to see them back and rolling.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">Every org except DTD rolled on this first &#8220;real&#8221; (as in not spring break) weekend of the spring. \u00a0DTD was held out for the time being because of those pesky capes and some Greek Sing conflicts.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">Beta made their first appearance on the course for the year, showing up with Problem Child and a healthy sized push team. \u00a0They made it around the course without incident for the weekend. \u00a0Good to see the interest in the house materialized in the spring after doing chores all fall.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">SDC&#8217;s new Avarice was rolling on their white wheels this weekend after debuting on practice-grade standard xootrs.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">AEPi has said that Camo may be officially retired after its left rear axle failed in the second half of the chute. \u00a0After a 25-ish (?) year career, and facing competition from increasingly capable AEPi fleet, I can see why they&#8217;re not motivated to break out the welder and put things back together again. \u00a0Let&#8217;s hope they at least lug it to design comp.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">PhiKap hit the curb near the transition flagger, Fringe spun in the chute, and Spirit stopped in the chute &#8230; all on Saturday. \u00a0PhiKap&#8217;s incident seems to have been the most problematic as impacts on that part of the course are always fast and uncushioned. \u00a0Reports were that the left side axle was significantly damaged. \u00a0There are also rumors about the house being on thin ice with the school which is not unusual on the quad these days, but we hate to hear about orgs having to worry about surviving rather than focusing on buggy this time of year.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">Spirit spun twice on Sunday, setting up a continuation of <a href=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2009\/03\/rolls-report-328\/\">last spring&#8217;s unnerving pattern of spins<\/a>. \u00a0It seems their combination of wheel types or weight distribution is just not going to cut it, but I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re working things out.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">Sigma Nu also had a flashback they&#8217;d rather not have when their &#8217;09 vintage Bungarus Krait lost control and flipped onto its side near the outside bales at the end of the chute. \u00a0That last time that happened was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gzQn6jOH0RE\">raceday 2005 when their then year-old Skua flipped<\/a>. \u00a0Maybe it&#8217;s a right of passage. \u00a0I thought that the design flaw with Skua had been definitively corrected, but perhaps the track just can&#8217;t be wide enough in the nice smooth Zoo shape.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">SigEp&#8217;s Barracuda hit the inside curb at the end of the chute after her helmet obstructed her vision. \u00a0That&#8217;s a common problem, and lately a common place to crash into the curb.<\/li>\n<li style=\"clear: right;\">In general, course conditions were not great this weekend. Hill 5 is deadly with a line of potholes that could swallow a buggy. The chute was extremely dusty and slippery, causing a lot of corrections (and overcorrections) that probably account for the huge incident count. \u00a0Hopefully some of the spring rain we&#8217;ve been getting will clear up the grime left by the snow melt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days of genuine good spring weather (45-50\u00b0F and mostly sunny) provided the first real weekend of rolls, and the teams made it an exciting one. \u00a0With three new buggies and enough incidents in the chute to make a driver blush, it took extra long to sort out and write about here at headquarters. \u00a0Our\u00a0apologies\u00a0for [&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-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9368,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/9368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}