cowboy1192 wrote: Vekoma may be a professional company with good designers and great engineers...
This is what you'd expect of a professional company...
Vekoma is not a professional company.
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DeJaVu
This is what you'd expect of a professional company... Vekoma is not a professional company. Licensed Mechanical Engineer
It's Vepunka. And then there's Arrow Dyjerkoffs which can't make a non-rough ride if they followed B & M's blueprints and were given Einstein's brain on a loan, which is why they are gone. Good riddance.
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Would you seriously just stop?
They make a lot of good coasters. How about you go and make one.
i too think that Vu is rougher this year. it seems like the catch car isn't working smoothly. Because on my ride, when the train went backwards threw the station, when it catched it was like "Vroom KERCHUNK" and it slammed me balls into the seat belt. It wasn't a smooth stop like V2, it was a rolling up, then free fall for a foot then come to a complete stop....just like all other Boomerangs. I never remember Vu being like that though in previous years.
I still love the ride and the stop isn't really that bad at all. You just have to get used to it.
Vu is running much smoother this year than last year in my opinion. The catches have not been as bad and it isnt making as many unusual noises, she's been running pretty much flawlessly.
Thats normal, id be worried if it didnt do that.
Lol I have to agree Vu has gotten a little smoother this year..there are certain parts where it's rough for instance the second tower. I got off Vu on Saturday and my back was hurting from getting slammed against the back of the ride. But other then that she's been fine when i've gone on her.
SF trips 09 = 15
SF trips 10= 11 SF trips 11 =7
I instantly pictured a leprechaun.
Ride Tennessee Tornado and sy that again, it is smoother than a B&M.
It makes no sense when people come back with statements like this. How about I go make one? What kind of question is that? I'm not a roller coaster designer. If I wanted to be one, I would learn all about it and also the do's and don'ts and might or might not make a really nice smooth coaster that is awesome. I say might or might not because I have no idea how good I would be since I am not a student of that field. Right now if I tried to make a roller coaster, it would suck. Why? I just told you. Hee hee, look. I have a signature thingy um, thing.
^Point is 2 of my top three coasters are from "Arrow Dyjerkoffs" and another in my top ten is from "Vepunka"
You said yourself you've havn't been on many coasters at all, maybe you should ride a few before you go bashing companies you know nothing about. Top 5 wood-5-Goliath 4-Ravine Flyer II 3-Phoenix 2-Voyage 1-El Toro
Top 5 Steel- 5-Velocicoaster 4- Maverick 3- Fury 325 2-Steel Vengeance 1-X2 Coaster Count: 444
Just quit bashing Arrow and Vekoma, although they do make quite a few bad coasters (mainly Vekoma) they do make some damn good ones. I'm a big fan of Arrow loopers such as Demon, Shockwave, Loch Ness Monster, Great American Scream Machine, and others. I don't think SLCs are that bad, their Giant Inverted Boomerangs are great. You don't even know any Vekoma's or Arrow's outside of Demon and Deja Vu. Coaster Count: 128
#1 Coaster: El Toro
I've been on Shockwave before it was torn down. It was rough like Demon and hurt me. Demon and Shockwave hurt, hench why I don't like them. And I've heard stories of a bunch of other Arrows that are rough. Pal, I don't go on coasters to get my head banged around and also some people say "You have to learn how to move your head". You know what? There is a way to prevent headbanging in Demon's corkscrews. Really really force your head to stay put by pushing it forward and thus putting pressure on it, meaning it hurts just as bad as banging it. By pressure I mean use your head muscles to fixate it in mid-air. If you put Demon and Shockwave in the same category as a Great American Scream Machine and the like, then I would consider that saying GASM is just as rough and I would probably hate it too just the same. That's all my point was. Hee hee, look. I have a signature thingy um, thing.
I rode Tenn Tornado last year, and while it was a decent ride, its not as good as a medicore B & M and nothing compared to the better ones!!
Yeah, that was a typo  But I think it sounds better just the way it is 
But I'm not saying it never did that before. I'm saying that is seemed a lot worse when I rode it this year compared to years before. But I do agree that it is normal for all Vekoma rides to make that sound...in fact, like you said, if it didn't make that sound then there is something wrong.
Even though thats not how you prevent the headbanging on Demon...
^That's the only way I can. Otherwise, ride it a million times and learn a different way. If I don't want to get hurt that much, so why would I want to do that?
But actually, you have to understand that sometimes I try to be cool by acting like I know what I'm talking about (like with the Vekoma and Arrow bashing). But in all seriousness, I only bashed Vekoma because a lot of people said Deja Vu was rough this year and I figured well, typical Vekoma. Eh, nevermind all my stupid talk. Forget about it. Hee hee, look. I have a signature thingy um, thing.
Is it better to ride on an A row or B??
^1A, otherwise a B row.
Coaster Count: 128
#1 Coaster: El Toro
It's better that it is down than not; look at other coasters that derail and such, like the one a while ago in Japan. I'd rather be safe.
^but that was one accident out of 2,000+ coasters....I doubt it would happen in America.
Demon did the exact same thing, except instead of metal fatigue, someone forgot to put on a cotter pin, and it happened to be in a loop and non fatal. (if you want to get really technical it happened on the first drop and it happened to coast to a stop at the top of the second loop and the car wedged between the rails held it in place)
Just about 2 weeks ago, Raging Wolf Bobs derailed and the last car of the train tipped down between the rails, no one was seriously hurt. http://www.rideaccidents.com/ragingwolfbobs003.jpg about 5-10 years ago Orient Express at WOF derailed in a steeply banked helix and was nearly fatal, the car was hanging mid air supported only by the coupler between it and the car in front of it. I think I remember one person jumped from the dangling car, though the coupler never failed. Mindbender at Edmonton Mall was a fatal derailment and rather gruesome. And last year the Cyclone at Coney Island derailed, though I hear it's actually somewhat common and one last year just happened to make the news for whatever reason. Derailments arent as uncommon as some think, just in most situations safety systems work as intended and no one gets badly hurt. Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder
Favorite Steel: Voltron Nevera, Steel Vengeance, Expedition GeForce, Olympia Looping Parks visited: 232, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 894, Wood: 179, Total: 1073
Vu had one down time today which wasn't too bad. Unless there were others I only saw one
SF trips 09 = 15
SF trips 10= 11 SF trips 11 =7
Vu is always down. No matter what.
I really wish I had read this thread before I went last night. I'm 6'6" and I didn't look at the height sign before riding because I've never been too tall to ride a ride. But sure enough, I waited 20 minutes just to watch the ride run its course about 20 times and then walk right through. I recently graduated as a mechanical engineer from college, and from my experience, engineers try to design everything so that the product is enjoyable by as many people as possible. Now I understand that small children may be unsafe, and I also understand that excessively large people may not fit correctly. But to limit the maximum height to 6'4" is absurd in my opinion. There are a LOT of men who won't be able to ride Vu because of what I'm thinking is just a poor design. If there is a reason that they made the restraints that way, I'd like to hear it. But as far as I can tell, if I can fit on V2 and Batman, why can't I fit on Deja Vu?
Millennium Force Laps: 22
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