Everything about Motorbike Roller Coaster totally explained
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motorbike roller coaster is a type of
roller coaster designed with
motorcycle type cars.
Vekoma was the first company to design such a ride, though other companies have attempted to imitate the design.
Intamin AG has completed building their version of the Motorbike Coaster at
Dreamworld on the Gold Coast, Australia. In May 2008,
Zamperla's first motorbike coaster,
Orange County Choppers MotoCoaster, will open at
Darien Lake in
Darien, New York.
An unrelated, similar ride, was the
Arrow Dynamics designed
Cycle Chase at
Knott's Berry Farm, opened in 1976. The ride consisted of four parallel tracks with single motorbike themed vehicles racing. The ride was later retrofitted to become
Wacky Soap Box Racers until its closure in 1996
Design and operation
Vekoma
The Vekoma Motorbike Coaster consists of a train with nine cars, each consisting of two motorcycle seats. Each seat was designed to replicate the seating on a motorcycle, and allows free upper body movement.
After dispatching from the station, the train is hydraulically
launched into a twisting layout. The first Motorbike coaster was the
Booster Bike at
Toverland in
The Netherlands, opened in 2004. A second,
Velocity opened at
Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo in the
United Kingdom. A third, identical to the
Booster Bike, opened at
Chimelong Paradise in
China.
The Vekoma Motorbike Coaster concept was demonstrated with the use of the
No Limits roller coaster simulator, and is included as a track style in the commercial version.
Zamperla
The Zamperla
Motocoaster consists of a train of six cars instead of nine, but they're set up similarly, two seats side by side per car.
Zamperla's coaster uses a
flywheel launch instead of a hyrdraulic launch system. The standard track layout is a 3-layered
figure 8. In 2008 2 MotoCoasters will be installed in the United States, One prototype at
Darien Lake near
Buffalo, New York and a specially designed coaster with the motorcycle cars styled as horses at
Knott's Berry Farm in
Buena Park, California.
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