Ten coasters, one long day

[speedracer]

Good read and honest perspectives here on Northern California coasters written by a non-enthusiast, with a few special guest quotes:

 

Ten coasters, one long day

 

LMAO at the poor guy needing Excedrin after PGA!

[Hobbesx2]

That was a really good article. Great read.

[packfanlv]

Great article. It sounds like that reporter has a good sense of humor. Props to him for doing such an article despite his fears. Thanks for posting!

[odie]

I wish I could write that good! It sounded like, over that day, he developed a liking to coasters... well the ones that were good. Hope to see him on here soon.

[thrillgeek]

I agree with everyone. Thanks for sharing and I hope he learned his coaster lesson for the day. Skip "most" of the Vekoma's.

[Goliath513]

I read this when it was in the paper last weekend. "Imagine having to wait 40 minutes for a root canal" - describing CGA's Grizzly. Looks like even the non coaster enthusiasts want to burn it down too!

[cedarpointfangirl]

But as the coaster twisted and turned for two eternal minutes, there would be no words, except for what sounded like the shrill cry of a pre-pubescent female in the front row of an 'N Sync concert.

 

 

Ah hahaha!! I have heard a few of them in my time, especially dropping down MF's or Titans first drop. I remember one time while riding B:TR this one guy was telling his family, "oh its an awesome ride, you'll have a blast".Then he was screaming like a girl the whole time. The first thing he did when he got off was run over the to trash can an toss his cookies.

[robbalvey]

Wow, nice to see he used one of my quotes!

 

I talked to him for about an hour and a half. Seemed like a really cool guy.

 

--Robb

[Mechanic]

Thanks for posting. While people naturally won't agree with the order of the rankings, most of the comments were on target. I enjoyed the read. Robb's quote was pretty insightful too. Grizzly is indeed so bad that you just have to ride it to be able to say that you have experienced the ultimate in suck. Although it's certainly deserving, I actually had no idea that it was rated the worst wooden coaster.

[Speeddeamon128]

If I were a beginner I'd skip most of the Vekoma's to

[speedracer]

Thanks for posting. While people naturally won't agree with the order of the rankings, most of the comments were on target. I enjoyed the read. Robb's quote was pretty insightful too. Grizzly is indeed so bad that you just have to ride it to be able to say that you have experienced the ultimate in suck. Although it's certainly deserving, I actually had no idea that it was rated the worst wooden coaster.

 

It's actually been rated very last for at least the last 8-9yrs in a row, no other craptacular woodie has been able to bump it. Hopefully comments like this will shame CF into finally doing what others should have been done years ago, put this POS out of our misery!

 

Thanks for the comments guys!

[timetrial3141592]

There are four other coasters that might be able to take last:

 

White Canyon

Son of Beast

Bandit @ Movie Park Germany

The RCCA woodie in South America