A motorbike roller coaster or motorcycle roller coaster is a type of steel roller coaster designed with motorcycle type cars. Booster Bike at Toverland was the world's first motorbike roller coaster. Vekoma was the first company to design such a ride, although Intamin and Zamperla have since created similar designs.
7-602: The MotoCoaster is a motorbike roller coaster at Six Flags Darien Lake in Darien, New York . It was the park's first launch coaster, and was the first MotoCoaster by Zamperla to be installed in the United States , though the Pony Express , a similar type of coaster with horse themed trains, was constructed around the same time and is currently operating at Knott's Berry Farm . The coaster installed at Darien Lake
14-483: A flywheel launch instead of a hydraulic launch system. The standard track layout is a 3-layered figure 8 . In 2008 2 MotoCoasters were installed in the United States. The prototype is at Darien Lake near Buffalo, New York . The Pony Express at Knott's Berry Farm , Buena Park, California , in a twist on the once famous Motorcycle Chase of Indian Motorcycles on a Steeplechase roller coaster , now sports
21-640: Is actually the prototype coaster that was used for tuning and testing at Zamperla's factory in Italy . The coaster was originally named the Orange County Choppers Motocoaster (OCC Motocoaster) when it first opened in 2008. Darien Lake partnered with the Orange County Choppers for naming rights for the coaster, along with a promotional giveaway of a custom painted OCC motorcycle, and a custom built bike to remain at
28-551: The commercial version. Intamin was the second company to come up with a motorbike roller coaster design. Their design utilizes drive tires to launch its trains. Currently, only four installations exist - two in Australia , one in Denmark, and one in the United States. The Zamperla Motocoaster consists of a train of six cars instead of nine, but they are set up similarly, two seats side by side per car. Zamperla's coaster uses
35-617: The park. After the naming rights with Orange County Choppers expired, the name was changed to the MotoCoaster in 2010. This article about an amusement ride or roller coaster is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Motorbike roller coaster A similar but unrelated Steeplechase roller coaster was Knott's Berry Farm 's Motorcycle Chase by Arrow Dynamics which opened in 1974 . That attraction featured single motorbike themed vehicles racing side-by-side, each on one of four parallel tracks, launched together. It
42-410: Was retrofitted in 1980 as Wacky Soap Box Racers before removed in 1996. The Vekoma Motorbike Coaster consists of a train with nine cars, each consisting of two motorcycle seats. Each seat was designed to replicate the seating on a motorcycle, and allows free upper body movement. After dispatching from the station, the train is hydraulically launched into a twisting layout. The first Motorbike coaster
49-757: Was the Booster Bike at Toverland in The Netherlands , opened in 2004. A second, Velocity opened at Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo in the United Kingdom . A third, identical to the Booster Bike, opened at Chimelong Paradise in China . The Vekoma Motorbike Coaster concept was first demonstrated with the use of the No Limits roller coaster simulator, and is included as a track style in
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