Why do suspendeds have OTSR's

I was just thinking about this, anybody know for sure? The over the shoulder restraints seem to be unnecessary for rides of this type. No huge drops, no airtime, no inversions, and most never reach a banking turn of more than 90 degrees. (even with the "swinging" effect) I am rather tall and must slouch in order to fit into these. It sure seems like a lap bar would be enough on a regular suspended. (not SLC's)

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Gotta ride 'em all!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe it's because of Arrow's design, they just slightly redesigned the trains from their sit-down loopers to work on a suspended track. Rather than totally redesign (spend money) the cars, they just did this, hence the OTSR on the suspendeds.

I think it's more because when they were originally designed, they were supposed to be capable of going upside down. I remember watching a special about coasters "America Screams" hosted by Vincent Price. On the show, they showed a working scale model suspened track with a corkscrew in it. Unfortunatly, during later tesing phases, they realized that suspendeds cant reiliably go upside down, however the cars were all ready made. Additionally, the safety restraint release mechanism has to be on the top of the cars to let people out in the station.

The restraint release on Arrow suspended coasters is on a pedal on the back left for manual release and under the car for automated release.

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Jeff
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the trains are bottom heavy.



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WOOD RULES!

I think it is because the angles on the turns are so great that the riders would be smashing into each other with great force.

This has been discussed before if not here somewhere else but the conclusion was that it was because arrow just did not want to redesign there restraint system too much, either after they discovered that they would not beable to go upside down or before.
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