Pure Speed Motorcycle Roller Coaster

This adrenaline high roller coaster is billed as "fun for the whole family". For motorbike riders there's twisty roads and track days. For everyone else, there's the Booster Bike roller coaster made by Dutch roller coaster company Vekoma Rides. The Booster Bike has been running since 2004 in Toverland, located in Sevenum, Holland without a single crash.

Once the train is hooked ear-battering noise of engines hums from the speakers. To simulate horse power of modern bikes, a catapult launch was included. It's a 40 meter stretch of track where the coaster reaches a top speed of 70 kph or 45 mph in 2.8 seconds. Riders also get high-speed banked curves, horseshoe and emergency braking!

The Dutch love their motorbikes, in the video, a group of riders got into full gear to ride the Booster.

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The restraint systemlooks like a contraption around the waste and thigh. "Once seated, the legs are slightly spread backwards, the feet on a base plate and the upper part of the body is bent forwards - the handle bar is pulled up, which via a mechanical linking causes an extensive clamp in the back area to lower and fixation of the thighs by two additional, separate functional areas."

According to http://www.coastersandmore.dethe Booster Bike coaster uses less than a 10th of similar high-speed coasters but that's still a lot of oil. "The hydraulic pumps work continuously and pump oil into a pressure tank between the launches. So by-and-by an energy potential is built up. This energy is stored as pressure in a combined nitrogen/oil system. The gas is compressed so that it lets the oil rush through the pipes and the engines in a burst after opening the valves. With this the train can be accelerated in a catapult manner. Via a winch the engines drive a pusher car. The train hooks into this pusher car before the launch, and it automatically releases after reaching the maximum speed. For one launch sequence about 100 liters of oil are needed, which are brought back into the pressure tanks afterwards by the pumps via a closed pipe circuit."

I'd try it.