I love roller coasters a lot, but I'll tell ya, I can't do the wild mouse single car style ones. They jerk me around a little too much.
I agree! I hate the ones that make me dizzy. But roller coasters in general are cool. Have any neat history on them?
Well, in the 17th century in St. Petersburg, Russia, there were mountain slides that had 50 degree drops to slide down the mountains.
Okay, I had NO idea they were trying to do roller coaster type things in even the 17th century. That's kind of hilarious. I'm sure people had to have died. What else is unique about roller coasters?
Oh I'm sure you're right about that. Not exactly safe, let's say. Wooden roller coasters have steel strips on wood track. Pretty rickety and scary.
Yeah, I'm usually not a fan of the wooden ones, when they're creaking under you as you go over them. There's got to be other cool roller coaster attributes you could tell me about, right?
forces on the riders to make the turn more comfortable. When a banked turn continues to create an upward or downward spiral of approximately 360 degrees or more, it becomes a helix.
Common elements Brake run.
A brake run on a roller coaster is any section of track meant to slow or stop a roller coaster train. Brake runs may be located anywhere or hidden along the circuit of a coaster and may be designed to bring the train to a complete halt or to simply adjust the train's speed. The vast
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