Learn your Kanji!

Yama-bachi means "mountain pot"
Bachi means "RETRIBUTION!!!"

(emphasis mine)

Posted by tommy k on Thu Mar 11 14:11:47 2010

CMUBuggy.org is live

Hey everyone,

I just put some finishing touches on CMUBuggy.org and set it live in honor of the first day of rolls this morning.

I think everyone that liked this site will like cmubuggy.org even better. And don't be shy over there, there's no reason we can't bring the rancor with us

-sam (aka the good folks at pikabuggy.com)

Posted by Sam Swift on Sun Oct 12 19:31:48 2008

Photos from Wood talk...

... do not exist. Don't photograph PiKA buggy, and don't photograph PiKA buggy alum presentations. These are the rules, Carl. You should know that by now!

Posted by Carsen Kline on Sat Sep 20 06:24:27 2008

Yeesh, no pics from Wood's ASM presentation? ;)

Posted by Carl Nott on Fri Sep 19 13:28:24 2008

new (old) videos

I posted the buggy highlight videos from 87 and 88 on you tube over the weekend. These were from an old video tape that is a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape made in the late 80s so the quality is lacking. You do get to see some 2 wheel action (DU) and some early spirit action including QL spin and some early KDR action. Not my music, not my editing. I am just sharing what I found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2PKyJ7FEro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJsQn4vMPRc

Posted by mark estes on Mon Sep 15 15:18:11 2008

Sweepstakes, Metallurgy

I'm going to Tom Wood's ASM Social Night talk. Should be a good time hangin' out with buggy people and metallurgy people.

The first sweepstakes meeting lasted about 10 minutes and was mostly a meeting about a meeting. At last check, Fringe's chairman candidate was running unopposed, and PiKA has a candidate for Safety. The Pioneers were represented by a CIA member who's keeping them alive.

Posted by Carsen Kline on Sat Sep 13 10:27:39 2008

Last night was first chairmen's meeting. I think they are soliciting for sweepstakes staff.

Posted by Bordick on Tue Sep 9 21:50:18 2008

Rolls, Beta SAE

First rolls are September 27th and 28th, Beta, SAE and Pioneers are supposedly in. They always follow through ...

Posted by tommy k on Tue Sep 9 20:53:22 2008

Sweepstakes

Has the first Chairman's meeting happened? Sweepstakes been elected?

Posted by Abby Sullivan on Tue Sep 9 17:58:15 2008

Who is all coming back/sticking around for the lecture?

Posted by ShootTheDog on Wed Sep 3 08:42:55 2008

Re: Mmmm, welding

The Ikea stuff I got was easier than that to put together but maybe I'll order the armor plated coffee table and get to do FSW when I assemble that bad boy (Ti welding tool not included).

Posted by Madler on Mon Aug 25 12:11:47 2008

Mmmm, welding

I love me some Friction stir welding. I FSW some shelves in my dining room. I may have even dabbled some on a few buggies.

Posted by Bordick on Sat Aug 23 19:05:21 2008

Re: Another Tom Wood presentation

Hard to imagine Tom giving out any technical details whatsover (though I suppose this could form the basis for the Buggy Handbook some people have been mentioning). I can just imagine the talk, "Thank you all for coming. Buggies are made of a variety of highly advanced materials that I can't go into, but which Pika has perfected. They're generally fabricated at two in the morning in poorly ventilated garages and basements, using safety precautions that, er, well may not even count as precautions. Questions?"

Hopefully you'll be able to attend the November event on Friction Stir Welding.

Posted by Madler on Fri Aug 22 14:22:47 2008

Another Tom Wood presentation coming up...

'The CMU Buggy: Materials and Design'
Giving a speech for the ASM in Pittsburgh. Alas, I have a prior engagement.

Date: Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Time: 6pm Happy Hour
7pm Buffet Dinner
8pm Presentation

Location: Penn Brewery
800 Vinial Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212

Posted by Carl Nott on Fri Aug 22 11:12:10 2008

Magic

We have its top times as 2.10.50 ('81) and 2.10.42 ('86), thanks to the monster push teams. It's a tank compared to anything from the 90's, but not so much compared to anything using derbys. It may have gotten beefed up a bit after the driver got hit in the face by a PiKA buggy (anyone know which one?) in '79, and again when the rules were changed.

The little wheels started in '88 with Defiant which was heavy, slow, and tipped over a lot. I think it took until 94 to iron out the issues behind Conquest's slowness, and by then the push teams were nowhere relevant.

Posted by Shafeeq S on Sun Aug 10 22:39:06 2008

Duane,

How many race-days (in a row) have you seen? 24 or 25? The kids racing today were not even born when you got started. I beliee there may be a pka or cia troll that may be older but your dedication makes me smile.

Posted by mark estes on Fri Aug 8 01:31:25 2008

Also, holy crap, hi Duane.

Posted by Adam McCue on Thu Aug 7 18:07:06 2008

Tell me about it -- I was KDR's chairman in 2005, which was the year this picture was taken (this is KDR A's buggy Powder).

If we had known to align the steering, I think we could have posted some pretty solid times that year.

Posted by Adam McCue on Thu Aug 7 11:09:37 2008

if only...

it had wheels

and they were pointed in the same direction

Posted by Duane Delaney on Wed Aug 6 21:44:10 2008

some people deserve to lose

gee maybe I'll machine wheels at great expense that are 6 times heavier than standard spoked Panaracer wheels, and use them in a race with a standing start

Posted by Duane Delaney on Wed Aug 6 20:45:27 2008

oops

maybe I shouldn't have put totally juiced wheels out in the sun (duh)

Posted by Duane Delaney on Wed Aug 6 20:42:20 2008

The SBD folks used to chemically treat their tires but it's illegal now (for 'normal' SBD).

Posted by Carl Nott on Tue Aug 5 18:55:23 2008

Jack's tires

I have no idea: do SBD racers usually treat their tires or is Jack just a little heavy on the sauce? (the course looks like a straightaway but the tires still cracked -- maybe heavy on the sauce?)

No Jack Barrs in the alum directory (and the John Barrs don't live in AZ). Hmmmm.

Posted by Madler on Tue Aug 5 18:01:25 2008

relevant pictures

Barr, Schurr, Albertoni, Pearson...

Pictures and Times

2008 Pics

2007

I'd take the Schurr team though if it was a one-heat race.

Posted by revo on Mon Aug 4 23:08:50 2008

John J Wargo?

Posted by Carl Nott on Mon Aug 4 16:42:58 2008

Posted by ShootTheDog on Mon Aug 4 15:55:13 2008

These pictures are relevant to my interests

I know where this is going. Thanks Carl for finally bringing it up. I am sure it will spawn some awesome and uncomfortable conversation.

Derby pics (old and new) can go in the new gallery.

Posted by ShootTheDog on Mon Aug 4 15:54:21 2008

I found it a lot easier to marry a lawyer than become one. I was never much for going to class.

Posted by Carl Nott on Mon Aug 4 11:23:39 2008

Litigation

Carl, you're not a lawyer are you? I personally have never seen black rubber on Xootr wheels, have you? (that's sarcasm) What's not sarcasm is the clear wheel covers on that one Soap Box. Cool.

Posted by Bordick on Mon Aug 4 09:34:25 2008

Is Jack Barr the same guy as John Barr Jr., class of '51? Grats on the win tho guys; back to back years is pretty sweet. I'm surprised (disappointed?) you didn't have some senior citizen FOADs blocking the photo ops and beating down nosey kids with their walkers tho. ;)

Posted by Carl Nott on Sun Aug 3 19:40:08 2008

I'd say that's convincing...

I'm sure the fact that three brand new ones were split open like rotten melons isn't gpoing to go over very well.

Posted by Duane Delaney on Sun Aug 3 18:14:59 2008

Also after they moved out... I'll try to find the under-the-hood pics I snapped. It wasn't KE though.

Posted by Adam McCue on Sun Aug 3 02:28:51 2008

Dude,

=



Who else at CMU rolls on those wheels?

Posted by Carl Nott on Sun Aug 3 02:13:59 2008

Blasphemy

Carl, how do you know that these are Pika wheels? I mean, you may be guessing, but how do you KNOW? Does that mean that the White ones or the green ones are also from buggy orgs? Fringe, I'm looking your way. I saw some skateboard wheels in there too, was that from ASA?

Posted by Bordick on Sat Aug 2 18:32:30 2008

This still had this one in their buggy room in winter of '97.

Posted by Carl Nott on Fri Aug 1 19:50:50 2008

CMU Technology!!!

Ultimate Speed Team switches to new PiKA wheels, still win. CMU shout-out. Article.

Posted by Carl Nott on Fri Aug 1 19:23:20 2008

Bootsy!! Good to see you around here.

Posted by Dani Barnard on Thu Jul 31 13:18:53 2008

Line Watch

Wasted man-power just to get that extra roll on Truck Weekend. We were dedicated back then.

Posted by Bootsy on Thu Jul 31 07:53:11 2008

Oh my God

That was me, polishing. Raj standing.
Janna in the foreground.

Posted by Bootsy on Thu Jul 31 07:44:15 2008

Voymas

Jon was pretty quick.

Posted by Bootsy on Thu Jul 31 07:41:44 2008

Jama, Probably

Jama was my first guess as well, since it looks like a full body top cover as opposed to the typical head cone design.

Cisco insists it's an early version of KO$ where, according to him, had a full body top cover in its earlier version. But we all know Cisco is usually incorrect.

The person in front is wearing a Jama T-shirt I think. I think it looks like Scott White. But Cisco thinks it's Flounder (with hair).

Buggies don't come out of the womb shiny, y'know?

Posted by Bootsy on Thu Jul 31 07:34:12 2008

Does fringe know...

...that they stole your buggy name?

Posted by Aiton Goldman on Wed Jul 30 14:22:05 2008

woody

Yeah that's Woody in the photo, early in his man, many years at CMU


oops obviously I meant DU with the 2-wheel 208.5 That time was probably the biggest surprise in my 25 years of races

Posted by Duane Delaney on Tue Jul 29 18:35:44 2008

Jama

As Duane pointed out, this is version 2.0 of jama. So, not the SBD based monster but the smaller version that inspired KOS and all the kindred. That might be Woody or one of his team mates.

Posted by mark estes on Tue Jul 29 18:20:39 2008

Re: Magic

Yeah, I seem to recall CIA's buggies rolling on derby-sized tires until '92, when they came out with Conquest, (which I thought was surprisingly slow, actually). I think, in the 90's at least, they always tried to do their own thing with their wheel rubber.

So if that picture is Jama (the one Abby posted, entitled "Which buggy is this?"), would that be Woody on the ground talking to the driver?

Posted by Madler on Tue Jul 29 18:08:08 2008

Yer, CIA's winning time was faster than our winning time in '97. I dunno if Black Magic was more of a tank than Sting though.

Posted by Carl Nott on Tue Jul 29 12:14:17 2008

Magic

Actually Black Magic's wheels weren't all that small or narrow. It had very disk-like wheels around 1" wide and 10 to 11" in diameter. That buggy rolled rather well, usually being maybe a second or two off of the best pace (zoo and pika at the time). Considering that almost everyone else was many seconds slower in the roll, they did OK.

the rubber was some sort of glue-on gum rubber, natural color.

As for the photo of JAMA, the flat black buggy in the Zoo section is JAMA. You can tell because it has no body seams running over the top, only one big one on the equator all the way around. That is the 1991- configuration with small wheels. I have a soft spot for the original 1990 config, with the big SBD type rubber, the buggy was no light weight like that but it was a holy terror in the chute, and rolled up better than anything to date save for the 2-wheel phikap 208.5 time, one day before 2-wheelers had their last roll.

I would like some JAMA 1990 photos, I've...

Actually Black Magic's wheels weren't all that small or narrow. It had very disk-like wheels around 1" wide and 10 to 11" in diameter. That buggy rolled rather well, usually being maybe a second or two off of the best pace (zoo and pika at the time). Considering that almost everyone else was many seconds slower in the roll, they did OK.

the rubber was some sort of glue-on gum rubber, natural color.

As for the photo of JAMA, the flat black buggy in the Zoo section is JAMA. You can tell because it has no body seams running over the top, only one big one on the equator all the way around. That is the 1991- configuration with small wheels. I have a soft spot for the original 1990 config, with the big SBD type rubber, the buggy was no light weight like that but it was a holy terror in the chute, and rolled up better than anything to date save for the 2-wheel phikap 208.5 time, one day before 2-wheelers had their last roll.

I would like some JAMA 1990 photos, I've seen very few.

Posted by Duane Delaney on Tue Jul 29 12:14:06 2008

Re: MADLER

Ha! Yeah, in hindsight, I would do a lot of things differently. The suspicion was a coping mechanism in response to the extreme fear of something bad happening. I'd manage that a bit differently now -- for starters, more alcohol would be involved.

Re: Black Magic -- was that buggy really a tank? I think they rolled another 2.10 with that buggy in '86.

Posted by Madler on Tue Jul 29 11:39:07 2008

MADLER

Matt, you were suspicious of everything, don't limit yourself. Of course with the way Jack treated you, I understand.

Posted by Bordick on Tue Jul 29 06:13:40 2008

Black Magic

Given how skinny (and small) the wheels were on Black Magic, not only was the push team fantastic, but the course was repaved that year and it was a brutally hot day, all in their favor. The buggy was a tank otherwise.

Posted by Joe Anderson on Mon Jul 28 21:22:57 2008