Lap bars on multi loop coasters?

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You'd be pleased to know that well over 20 years later: both RMC and Gerstlauer only use lap bars / seat belts for their looping coasters :)

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Premier, also!

[Art Todesco]

Post by m***@gmail.com
You'd be pleased to know that well over 20 years later: both RMC and Gerstlauer only use lap bars / seat belts for their looping coasters :)

Dave A., I think, many years ago, stated that, if designed right, you
only need lap bars.

[Dave Althoff, Jr.]

Art Todesco <***@yahoo.com> wrote:
: On 1/8/2020 7:33 AM, ***@gmail.com wrote:
: > You'd be pleased to know that well over 20 years later: both RMC and
: > Gerstlauer only use lap bars / seat belts for their looping coasters :)
: >
: Dave A., I think, many years ago, stated that, if designed right, you
: only need lap bars.

Yeah, I have some of those old articles indexed around here...somewhere...

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I haven’t been to Steel curtain yet (and won’t this year as I had to cancel my planned trip in June), but didn’t realize it didn’t have OTSRs. Good to hear.

[Dave Althoff, Jr.]

***@gmail.com wrote:
: You'd be pleased to know that well over 20 years later: both RMC and
: Gerstlauer only use lap bars / seat belts for their looping coasters :)

...and Premier, and S&S, and Maurer-Soehne, and Gravity Group, and Zierer,
and Hopkins, and Schwarzkopf, and...

Big kudos to Kennywood, incidentally, for having 13 roller coaster
inversions without any shoulder bars. I don't know if that's a record or
not, but it certainly indicates that they might have learned the most
important lesson from the Steel Phantom debacle.

You know, I hate to say "I told you so," but if you dig far enough back into
the archives of rec.roller-coaster, I actually did...!

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[Ansley]

Pretty cool that Kennywood has lap bars only! I rode SkyRocket when it opened, pretty good coaster. I've also ridden some others with similar trains to SkyRocket. The only thing about some of these rides is I find, especially as I gained weight, that some of them freak me out a bit as I feel like I'm falling out sometimes.

Ted

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Ted, I kinda like the Tigris type train. It’s a lap bar, so you’re not confined like with an OTSR, but also has the light weight strap above. So you get the security, but also doesn’t really cause the super confined/headbanger feeling.