New Feature: Ask RideMan

A brand new feature is coming to PointBuzz. Our in-house amusement park ride expert RideMan (a.k.a Dave Althoff) has agreed to answer your ride questions. Curious about how something works? Here's your chance to find out.

To submit a question, you can private message RideMan through PointBuzz. Please include "Ask RideMan" in the subject line and be sure to include your first name and hometown.

In the meantime, please enjoy these classic RideMan articles:

The Physics of maXair

Top Thrill Dragster – A Technical Introduction

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Fixed. I think.

The links worked for me. This sounds like a great idea. Reading Dave's posts and articles is always informative. I look forward to reading some more. I'll have to start thinking of possible questions.

On a side note, reading the Dragster article again reminded me of the "Behind the Rides" blog posts which were posted on the Cedar Point blog for several years. They were all wiped out a couple years ago during the web site reboot, but can still be found on archive.org although some images are missing.

Edit: Using insert hyperlink didn't work for these links, so I'll paste them in full.

Behind the Rides: Dragster Part 1

https://web.archive.org/web/20101226223908/http://www.cedarpoint.co...agster.cfm

Behind the Rides: Dragster Part 2

https://web.archive.org/web/20101226114440/http://www.cedarpoint.co...rt_Two.cfm

*grins and starts to rub his hands together in a rather menacing fashion*

This can be fun. ;)

Seriously this is a great idea.