Weird, Wacky & Strange Coaster Bits

[Jake]

I want this in my life...

http://rcdb.com/2775.htm

 

[Ben]

^It's in such Salzburg as well, we have to go <3

Go to the salt mines, moan about the poisonous dwarf sitting at the front for exposure, mince round the fountain <3

 

[IntaminToWin]

^^ That thing looks crazy fun. It's not so much odd as it is awesome.

 

[Mysterious Sue]

**** love Pax <3 <3 <3
Totally gotta get myself to Russia next year

 

[Gavin]

I almost went to that Salzburg park in the summer, but it would've taken about an hour and a half each way to get there - it's not really in Salzburg at all - and I only had about a day and a half there as it was.

I really need more Pax in my life though; I've only got Cobra at Connyland at the moment, which was fab.

 

[Martyn B]

This is pretty weird:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_gCG4rh9Oc&feature=relmfu[/youtube]

 

[owentaylor121]

That ride needs to be in my life now. <3

 

[cookie]

This is pretty weird:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_gCG4rh9Oc&feature=relmfu[/youtube]

A Rollerskater with one half of a cobra roll? Now I've seen everything.

 

[Jake]

That looks FEROSH <3.

 

[cookie]

The half-Cobra Roll must be painful as all hell though.

 

[IntaminToWin]

This is pretty weird:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_gCG4rh9Oc&feature=relmfu[/youtube]

A Rollerskater with one half of a cobra roll? Now I've seen everything.

Couldn't that also be called a Sidewinder or a Dive Loop? Half-Cobra is a funny thing to call it first, it seems to me.

 

[cookie]

This is pretty weird:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_gCG4rh9Oc&feature=relmfu[/youtube]

A Rollerskater with one half of a cobra roll? Now I've seen everything.

Couldn't that also be called a Sidewinder or a Dive Loop? Half-Cobra is a funny thing to call it first, it seems to me.

I knew there was a name for that kind of inversion but I couldn't come up with it.

 

[madhjsp]

That'd be a sidewinder, if anything. Dive loops go the opposite direction, as the name suggests.

Here's something. A section of track just after the corkscrews on Corkscrew at Michigan's Adventure has an upward bend in the spine. I have no clue why this would be the case.

 

[Hixee]

It looks like the ties are a different size before and after the kink. I wonder if the smaller ties are better for the twistier sections of track.

 

[SaiyanHajime]

You guys ever seen this weird scenic railway which has a concrete support structure?

It's in Spain.

Here's some great pics, pov, info and a funny/frustrating story about the struggle to obtain the cred....

http://www.rollercoasterphilosophy.com/ ... e-igueldo/

http://rcdb.com/5057.htm

 

[Jake]

^ Yeah, I totes posted that ages ago in this topic .

Oriol has it <///3.

 

[reddude333]

Really fascinating coaster and the blog you linked was great

 

[Error]

That'd be a sidewinder, if anything. Dive loops go the opposite direction, as the name suggests.

Here's something. A section of track just after the corkscrews on Corkscrew at Michigan's Adventure has an upward bend in the spine. I have no clue why this would be the case.

*looks at video from Michigan's Adventure I took* Holy ****!

 

[TilenB]

Ultimate ghetto coaster...

http://www.coaster-count.com/coasterimages10372.xhtml

 

[Martyn B]

omfg....

Credz ain't that important....