Mean Streak - better?

When I visited CP in early June, I rode MS to see if anything was better. It wasn't. I found that the roughest part of the ride (and it seemed to vary depending on the train I was on) was when you bottom out after a hill. The vertical vibration was almost too much to bear.

You know, you look at this ride and want it to be good (it is an impressive sight), but it isn't. I wonder if Kinzel regrets putting in MS as much as he does TTD (which I love).

I don't know about Top Thrill Dragster, she's been running good the last few years. Very reliable. Mean Streak I think they should do what Kennywood did with Steel Phantom and just maybe re-do the course a little. Save the first hill but re-engineer the first drop and second and third hills. Seems to me like those are the roughest parts of the whole ride.

I know when I rode Mean Streak on a rainy day with my friend, it ran great! But then the other day I rode it with my kids and Nieces, it rode really rough! Its a a shame that such a beautiful piece of work can be so rough!

Make that three. Timberwolf at Worlds of Fun was once a great ride. Today, it causes shaken rider syndrome.

A trip in June brought me to both CP & KI. MS was a little rough, but it was good (with all of the comments, i wish i could have ridden it in it's early days). SOB was closed and didn't get to ride it.

I just got word from my sister who is at the park today that Mean Streak rolled back. I'm guessing it's going to be down for a day or two...

WoW! How does MS roll back??? I've got to see this on youtube!

Ok, how about valley? Is that better? :)

I wonder where in the ride that happened! I know there are parts where is seems to go real slow the last few times I have been on it!

Hopefully DK takes this as a sign that it needs taken down.

^ - hm. If that's how they judge to take down a coaster, we'd no longer have Gemini, Raptor or Wildcat.

^Zing!

While MS Valleying is certainly a pretty bad situation, it could be worse (see: Son of Beast).

I would like to know whereabouts the ride exactly valleyed at.

The majority of the people in this thread have it right: There is a problem with this ride when it comes to riding the ride, the speed of the ride and the physics of the ride.

The attendance of the ride has been under 900 K the last four years and under 1 M the last 6. But, I just can't help but think that CP has so many other coasters and such enormous attendance that they really don't feel as much of a financial hit (if any) that a smaller park would.

Off of complete personal opinion, I suspect that nothing major will be done to that ride for a while, even though I would be giddishly ecstatic if they tore it down and built an epic woodie with those new couch trains and renamed it Mean Streak. Or something hilarious like Mean Streak II: Beach Justice.

You never know what Cedar Point has up their sleeves. Maybe they're in the process of designing a better wooden coaster for us. :)

LOL! I remember when MS valleyed a few years ago. Park did its best to keep it quiet (train did not stop at Frontier Town station) but didn't succeed. (: Cool weather and too much braking, no doubt.

Roz

Seems to happen every few years with Mean Streak. As Roz said, most likely a combination of cold, empty trains and trims being on harder than they should be.

From what I heard from my sister, it valleyed in between the two right turns after the first hill. She said it had been closed for most of the morning, so I'm wondering if this happend during testing?

LOL, too funny. MS valleying. It just goes to show you that they need to cool it down with those breaks on the first hill.

I was at the park yesterday. While driving back to the Soak City lot I noticed Mean Streak not testing in the morning at 10 and all the trains on transfer. It was closed most of the morning, but was up and running in the afternoon. I heard nothing about it valleying all day. I rode it twice yesterday: the first not bad but not very good, so we decided to ride again because there was about 5 people in the station waiting. The second ride was slow and rough we barely made it up to the MCBR and the trim felt like it held us for a few seconds on the hill.

JuggaLotus said:
^ - hm. If that's how they judge to take down a coaster, we'd no longer have Gemini, Raptor or Wildcat.

Add TTD to that list too. :) (Also Maverick in the HS roll)

I was being sarcastic, and just reaching for any excuse for the ride to be burnt to the ground.

You ever wonder how they would be able to get you out of the trains if one had people in it and then have the train valley? I had a dream about that, the night I went up there on July 9th.