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Blue People fly sideways when it rains...
Couple of possibles:
1. Grease. Yup, you can knock 30sec off w/ grease. Jam the wheels w/ the thick [red?] stuff and it runs slow until the wheels heat up, which drops the viscosity of the lube. ST's slowest laps came w/ an empty train that was just lubed w/ the thick stuff on an inadequately warm day.
2. Bearings. Shot axle/wheel bearings can slow things down. It'll still run, but pokey.
3. Seized wheel. You'll know. It feels like riding Mean Streak. It bounces like crazy and squeals if a wheel seized. I've seen that knock 20seconds off lap times, w/ just 1 seizure.
4. Gauge issues. You'd probably feel this, too, as it fights the track.
5. No track lube. You can hear this, as it'll squeal around all the corners. Good for 20 seconds, tops.
It's probably not chain speed, as that shouldn't really affect much other than the first two hills.
As far as underestimating it's lap time, I've recorded laps of 2:17 before, which is about 92 seconds drop to stop. [~45sec for the lift, I believe]
Is it struggling out of the helix, or does it still hit the brakes at a good clip? I saw a 3:15 lap once, but it looked sick the whole way around.
mOOSH
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Does:
-Beast
-SonofBeast
-The Boss
-Texas Giant
-Mean Streak
-Rattler
Doesn't:
-Ghostrider
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You suck big time.
mean streak always had that midcourse brake, and its always been on, and its always crawled through the second half. now, i dont know if it was meant to be off and only used in blocking situations or if it was turned on because of bad design...
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Missing the Fallen:
King Cobra 1984-2001
The Bat 1981-1983
-Sean
Anyhoot, point still stands!
And Playa brings up another point...which coasters of those listed above had the trim activated when it first opened? I know from experience that SonofBeast and The Boss did.
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You suck big time.
Rumors accepted from reliable sources...
MrScott
And I was always under the impression that originally Beasts mid course did acts as a block brake. Is this impression wrong?
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Closed topic.