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Postby RBull4life on December 1st, 2008, 10:37 pm
Found this on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0P6_FAS6TM&feature=related

Now that looked like it showed you no mercy. Imagine riding that with no seat divider, or safety belt.
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Postby sixflagsgurneeboy on December 2nd, 2008, 11:58 am
Good find. My parents used to tell me about this ride and others at Riverview. Yeah, that would be some ride without the dividers or seat belts.. :lol: I guess that would have been considered a "thrill ride" :wink: for some people back in those days.
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Postby zjohn1988 on December 2nd, 2008, 8:04 pm
I'd be scared to ride it without a seatbelt or lapbar!
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Postby Coastermonkey61 on December 2nd, 2008, 10:57 pm
That doesn't look too bad...wait a minute, it seems I have shattered my ribcage just by viewing it.
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Postby tp41190 on December 2nd, 2008, 11:39 pm
Looks like a great ride! Reminds me of LoCoSuMa
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Postby Luxornv on December 3rd, 2008, 12:29 pm
Awesome find. That seems like it would still be a good ride were it still opened today.
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Postby RBull4life on December 3rd, 2008, 5:27 pm
^ I think it would still hold its own, but I am sure it would be toned down some with braking.
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Postby Coastermonkey61 on December 4th, 2008, 2:04 am
It's also in desperate need of some banking.
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Postby ben_the_bear on December 4th, 2008, 1:27 pm
It doesn't look very rough from that POV. I would expect it to be rough, considering it has almost no banking.
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Postby tp41190 on December 4th, 2008, 7:37 pm
But the people in the video looked like they had fun and weren't in pain. Maybe people back then really didn't give a sh!t about roughness. The rougher, the more dangerous, the more thrilling, the more fun.
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Postby cycamps on December 7th, 2008, 12:12 am
Those old woodies looked insane. It's pretty neat that they even thought of making a POV back then...
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Postby bigb7965 on December 7th, 2008, 12:00 pm
how did they even keep those dinosaur cameras they had back then secured?
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Postby ben_the_bear on December 9th, 2008, 1:09 pm
^ Maybe the person in the front row had to turn a hand crank on the camera the entire ride :wink:
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Postby bigb7965 on December 9th, 2008, 9:35 pm
lol probably
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Postby CoasterDude12-2 on February 5th, 2009, 9:02 pm
Man I wish I lived in the 1960's. I'd love to get a chance to ride that. Kind of looks like it might give The Boss at SFStl a run for its money in terms of roughness though.
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Postby bigb7965 on February 6th, 2009, 4:16 pm
on the subject of riverview... check out this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot47vAN4HBY
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