How much Acceleration is too much?

Frosty

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Using up some Disney Wolrd Tickets, who could refuse a motorcycle type ride?
The TRON Light Cycle is based on the Disney Scifi movie about being inside a video game. The light cycles raced.

There are test vehicles as you enter, to see if you fit and an exit if you reconsider. This picture was after my ride, which explains why my hair looks like it was left behind ... it was. If you wonder what it would be like to accelerate from 0 to 60 in a few feet ... hang on. Ride was smooth but tight turns, climbs, dives, largely in the dark. I am not a roller coaster person, but the acceleration was fun. I imagine like a carrier catapult shot but smoother and shorter distance and then mountain twisties inside a building.
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Forward is on right side of picture. You are clamped in pretty good. This is a ride vehicle with the handle bars pulled back which ratchets the back rest down. Chest goes between the padded wings while arms go to the outside. Not too much different than an extreme sport bike. Shin pads automatically adjust while feet go against the wheel well front. Looks fun.
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Two handle bar grip positions account for different sized people and are linked to the backrest. Both lock for the ride.
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Wow! I applaud you for doing that ride. I am definitely not a roller coaster person so I doubt I would do a ride like that!
 
Never was a roller coaster fan but the vehicle was too enticing. When I get on a motorcycle I ask myself if this is a good idea. Then I do it anyhow. Same here!
 
Wow! I applaud you for doing that ride. I am definitely not a roller coaster person so I doubt I would do a ride like that!
Me too, buddy. riding around the mountains on a sport bike is about as close as I want to get to a roller coaster. I have never understood them nor horror movies......or football for that matter.
OK, make that boxing, hockey, ski jumping, and the biggie, rock climbing.
 
Me too. My tolerance for motion is directly associated with my control. If I’m driving - hang on. If you’re driving - slow down.

In my early working career (before remote sensing) tested for and became an aerial fire mapper. I rode in a plane and mapped active fires, their spread, fuel types and structures in the path, and opportunities for effective attack. It involved referencing things on the ground and mapping them, then dropping the map in a capsule to fire headquarters from an open cockpit from very low. It involved looking up and down, in tight turns, in bumpy air (a recipe for getting sick). I never puked but I suffered a little while after we got back on the ground. Telling the pilot exactly where to put the plane was the hardest part. With some (especially military pilots) when I said turn right here they took it quite literally. YeeHa!
 
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