Iron Dragon

I was at CP on 5-15. Me and my friends notice how fast the Iron Dragon was going. It was actually kinda fun. Anyone notice the same thing?

I noticed the nice paint job on the trains. :)

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Brandon Sorc
Millennium Force count:31
www.spiritofthepoint.com

I HAVE NOT BEEN TO CP YET THIS YEAR BUT I JUST READ A POST ON ROLLERCOASTER.COM SAYING THE SAME THING. DO YOU SWING MORE AT THE HIGHER SPEEDS?

For all sakes, don't yell.

All the coasters built before 1991 seem to have a new type of wheel on them. These wheels have a thin layer of a sort of padded material. This makes for a faster, smoother ride.

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Millennium Force will be the next to sink!

No, faster smoother rides come from tight wheel tolerances, something that Iron Dragon does not have. I noticed today while riding that the wheel assemblies shake and shimmy all over the place. Compare that to the B&M rides or MF, where the wheels make solid contact on all sides of the rails. That's what makes it smooth.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 23

I have a theory about why Iron Dragon's wheel assemblies jiggle around so much and conversely why the ones on PKI's Top Gun do not. The suspended coaster axle is very similar to the axle assembly used on the multi-element coasters...an assembly that tracks very well. My theory is that the guide wheels on Iron Dragon are positioned too close together, and so the guide wheels are incapable of effectively steering the axle from both sides, allowing for excessive axle hunt. Top Gun has the 12" guide wheels, and consequently the contact points of the guide wheels are further apart. I wonder how I could test this theory...... --Dave Althoff, Jr.

Interesting, that dosen't explain why it was so smooth though.

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