What's up with The Beast?

There are brakes on the first drop. I just rode it today (8-12) and there are brakes on the first drop.

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Which first drop are we talking about here? Are we talking about the drop on the first chainlift or are we talking about the drop after the first tunnel. The drop on the first lift before the first tunnel has NO brakes of any kind on it, but there are magnetic breaks on right before you dive into the ravine after the 135ft drop (not sure if that is the right height).

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Bill Yost
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Well, I'm talking about the first, first drop. The drop off the chain lift. The drop before the tunnel, not the second drop, not the helix drop. The 45-degree drop. I've seen pictures, video, and I've ridden it (in July) and there were NO brakes down that drop! Even the head of marketing at PKI, Jeff Seibert, (we chatted on the Eiffel Tower) said there are no brakes down the drop. I'm not smoking anything. There just aren't brakes there.

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haux said:
Well, I'm talking about the first, first drop. The drop off the chain lift. The drop before the tunnel, not the second drop, not the helix drop. The 45-degree drop. I've seen pictures, video, and I've ridden it (in July) and there were NO brakes down that drop! Even the head of marketing at PKI, Jeff Seibert, (we chatted on the Eiffel Tower) said there are no brakes down the drop. I'm not smoking anything. There just aren't brakes there.
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Go ride it and you'll see the new magnets there.

Like I said before the timeline just does not work, it would take a couple days or so to install the new brakes another day at least to adjust the other brakes, anoter day to test the ride. If the Beast was down for a week I am sure we would have heard about it. Installing new brakes is not something you can just do overnight.

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I went on it yesterday and a magnetic brake has been installed at the top of the first hill (the down hill immediately following the chain lift). It is very dissapointing but the Beast now feels like it had in the past when the skid brakes where there.