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- From: buck@cavlry.enet.dec.com ()
- Subject: Re: Paramount tames THE BEAST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.141053.3029@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:10:53 GMT
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- Joe Butler writes:
-
- >FINALLY!!!!! Now I can ride the Beast without gutting my large frame body.
- >Sorry Buck, I thought this change should have been done when they did the
- >Racer 2 years ago. Makes it much easier for larger people to enjoy the ride.
-
- Don't get me wrong. I agree that the traditional PTC single lap bar
- design does prohibit People of Size from riding in their coaches, esp.
- those PTC coaches with the high seat dividers (ala Yankee Cannonball).
- My personal angle? Make an ajustable lap bar that WORKS!! The
- current offering by PTC plainly sucks! It's curved design pinches
- your legs (fackin OUCH!), and they either are so loose they fall all
- the way down, and continue to do so with the positive g forces incured
- during the ride, or those few that actually have spring mechanisms that
- work (eg, stay up by themselves) are only shoved into your gut by
- freakazoid ride attendants, which makes for a VERY UNCOMFORTABLE ride!
-
- From the angle of RIDING the coaster, these lap bars totally
- negate what is referred to as the "traditional riding experience".
- They're just fine, I guess, if you prefer the "90s" ride
- experience (eg, no body movement whatsoever).
-
- Now, if they could make one that was adjustable to different
- body sizes, AND were installed in parks where the employees were
- well-adjusted enough to allow rides to have a say WHERE they wanted
- the lap bar left in relationship to their body, then I guess I
- wouldn't have a problem with them.
-
-
- Buck, who would personally rather ride lap-bar less, but that's
- another story...
-