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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!porthos!decoy!cheri
- From: cheri@decoy.uucp (24481-stead)
- Subject: SDC Hurricane (was Re: SFMM)
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 05:46:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.054629.21467@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <moofie-200193131241@90.190.20.73> <1993Jan21.140440.10269@engage.pko.dec.com> <1993Jan24.043207.27470@usl.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan24.043207.27470@usl.edu> rhb@ucs.usl.edu (Bird Rendell H.) writes:
- >Steve Klingsporn writes...
- >>>The boardwalk in Santa Cruz (I've been many times) is very cool.
- >>>Their blue metal coaster is quite wimpy, but the wooden one there
- >>>(name escapes me) is pretty cool! :)
- >
- >Buck responds:
- >>You think the SDC Hurricane is wimpy?!? They are not wimpy rides,
- >>but maybe after all the re-profiling and brakes SCBB added to the
- >>damn thing...
- >
- And then Rendell joins in:
- >Take it from somebody who has ridden the two SDC Hurricane's instaled
- >in this country -- they were close enough to identical not to matter,
- >*and* neither of them is particularly wimpy, especially in that
- >one certain little swoop drop...
- >
- >I remember I have told everybody that I cracked a rib on the one
- >on Long Island...did I remember to mention that the owner of the
- >park was standing on the platform when I got off the ride holding my side?!?
- >He looked very concerned and ask 'Are you alright?'
- >I recovered quickly and said 'It's an old football injury. It acts-up
- >from time to time'.
- >
- >*whew* He bought it.
- >
- >Rendell
- >
- >p.s. I heartily encourage people to go to Adventureland on Long Island.
- >The owner of the park is one of the nicest persons I have ever met in
- >all of my coaster travels. His park deserves to be patronized (sp).
-
- My first ride on the Adventureland Hurricane was last summer. We basically
- walked onto the ride, so I hadn't studied it at all, and on the ride I started
- watching the people in front of me cower instead of watching what was coming
- up, so I was completing unprepared for that turn!! It certainly taught me a
- lesson about underestimating "small" coasters!
-
- -- Cheri
-