Home Trust Company joins our sponsors!

MGMT is thrilled to present Home Trust Company, who has just joined our team of sponsors! Home Trust is one of Canada's leading trust companies, offering a wide range of financial products and service alternatives, and focusing on a unique sector of the Canadian marketplace. A huge welcome to our newest Bronze Sponsor!

Countdown to Alabama: 8 days!

Jersey and T-Shirt Designs!

The Marc Garneau Moonbuggy Team is excited to reveal our final t-shirt and jersey designs! Our riders will be wearing sleek black and red jerseys, sporting the colorful logos of MGCI, MGMT, as well as all our sponsors TDM Technical Services, Aversan Inc., Skiis and Biikes, and Home Trust. The same will be featured on the white t-shirts the Alabama crew and the team back home will be wearing.

Want a t-shirt? For every hundred likes on our Facebook page, one random sharer of the posts marked #TSHIRTPROMO will be selected for a free MGMT 2013 t-shirt. (Only 6 more likes to go to our first hundred!)

Jersey design for Nancy Wu, our female rider

Back and front views of our team t-shirt

                                                        Countdown to Alabama: 10 days!

Less than Two Weeks to Alabama!

Fueled by Hawaiian pizzas on garlic sauce, bad jokes, and Taylor Swift, the fabrication crew is pulling long hours (until 9 pm today!) to finalize the vehicle so testing may begin. This week we hooked up the drive system for the front rider, which was complicated by the chain routing. Thanks to sparks of ingenuity and teamwork, we engineered solutions to our problems and construction is carrying on at an inspiring pace.

Long unobstructed chain routes
are a great source of happiness 

We have a crazy idea for a paint job
Watch out for it!

Don't look at arcs!

Coarse cuts will be cleaned up

Countdown to Alabama: 13 days!

Our Newest Sponsor: Aversan Inc.!

MGMT is excited to introduce our newest sponsor, Aversan Inc. They are a global engineering company with services in aerospace, defence, electronic healthcare, and information technology. MGMT's cooperation with Aversan is sure to produce wonderful results.

Welcome Aversan!

Kicking into High Gear

It is amazing to see how far we have come. Six months ago, we were figuring out how to cut a piece of metal tubing with a hacksaw. Today, we rode our nearly completed buggy onto the back field through an ongoing frisbee game, but this time, nobody was pushing! We attached the rear drivetrain and pedaled by ourselves.

Direct drive is given to the rear driver, now making the vehicle self-driven

The front shock springs were also replaced with looser
ones to absorb more bumps and shocks to the wheels

With the competition less than three weeks away, the construction team has been putting in long hours, coming in at 7 am, working during class, spare, and lunch, and staying after school until five or six o'clock scrambling to get the buggy built in time.

Billy the "cable guy" does his
magic with the rear derailleur

A testament to the amount of work we put in

Fabrication leaves quite a mess

Sneak preview of what's to come!

Welcome TDM!

MGMT is extremely excited to introduce our new sponsor: TDM Technical Services! TDM is a company specializing in aerospace, IT, and industrial human resources services, with clients all around the world. This will be a wonderful partnership, given our  parallel in the aerospace sector. With their help, we will be able to acquire better quality parts for the vehicle, and funds are available to make the trip more enjoyable. 

A warm welcome to TDM Technical Services!

Maiden Test Ride in the Bitter Cold

After taking a week off for March Break, MGMT is back to work. With less than a month to go, our team has kept to schedule. This week, the steering has been completed! Now the driver is able to steer the buggy with the swiveling handlebars Dr. Garneau tried. To try it out, the team went for a chilly joyride in the school parking lot. The steering is sharp but overall, the ride is smooth. We will be ready to pedal this thing by the end of next week!

Here's the full video of our test run: