headbanging

the worst headbanging i ever got was on batman the chiller @ sfgadv, followed by the old steel phantom at kennywood.

Alot of coasters have headbanging, but most of the time it is not bad at all for me. Every once in a while, I have a rough ride on Shockwave, but that won't stop my from riding.

   The worst injury I have received on a coaster is from Boomerang at SFMW. The seats are not cleverly designed to say the least. The have padding on the back of the seat for your back, by your right and left shoulder blade, but no padding for your spine. So my spine got rubbed against the hard plastic and with the jostling it kept acratching and after the ride, the skin by my spine was all worn away. That really hurt. CP's Corkscrew has a hard plastic seat too, but it didn't cut my back like Boomerang, it just was uncomfortable.

My (evil) cousin has lost his glasses on a Vekoma SLC.  In addition, he has some neck pain, and some motion sickness.

I used to be short enough to deal with headbanging, but now I'm 6'4" so I no longer experience it on most coasters. Arrow(and many other OTSRs) are short, only B&M ones have a tall pad that my chin would hit if I turned my head to a side(horsecollar). Of course B&M's aren't very rough, so the restraints aren't an issue. It's actually kind of nice, but my girlfriend complains about headbanging and roughness so I still have to be careful.

About SLCs, Kong at SFMW is the smoothest I've been on. It's also the slowest, you will drop into the restraints through the two inversions if you are in the middle of the train because it stalls so much. It actually looks like it almost valleys when they run it without passengers.

The only coaster I ever thought was too rough to ride again immediately (but I did ride later that day) was The Rattler when it first opened. That was pretty intense, the first drop was psychotic, and the helix was insane near the end. Unfortunately I heard that they were getting about one minor injury a day. It was depressing to go back there 4 years later, not knowing about the changes and dragging your friends along with you. What a let down! Now it looks ugly, and is more like a glorified wooden mine train coaster... Which makes me even more upset since SFFT is such a cool area for coasters. (i know that there are other rock quarrys that became parks but this is the only one I've been to)

-djansi

You all need to try the Thunderbolt for a real headbanger.  It would have to be the roughest ride I have had, but when you take into account that it was made in 1982 with no adjustments to the ride from that time, it is no wonder.  The smoothest ride was the Leathal Weapon at Movie World (in Australia).  Only 6 years old this SLR Mark3 is a smooth ride all the way through.
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yeah if youre taller it gives you shoulderbanging (SFMM's Viper)

the only rides i ever got headbanging on were Viper and Revolution

*** This post was edited by Wackokid on 11/5/2001. ***

dajansi I think you forgot Premiers OTSR no one can escape them.

lol yeah no one can escape the premeir OTSR. I mean those things are like a big guy bear hugging you.
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