Motorbike roller coaster

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.

Motorbike roller coaster
Velocity at Flamingo Land, a Vekoma Motorbike roller coaster
Status	In production
First manufactured	2004
No. of installations	16
Manufacturers	Vekoma, Intamin and Zamperla
Type	Steel motorbike roller coaster
Motorbike roller coaster at RCDB

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 was retrofitted in 1980 as Wacky Soap Box Racers before removed in 1996.

Design

Vekoma

See also: Vekoma

Motorbike coaster ride vehicle

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 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,^[1] and is included as a track style in the commercial version.

Intamin

Jet Rescue at Sea World is an Intamin motorbike roller coaster with jet ski cars.

See also: Intamin

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.

Zamperla

See also: Zamperla

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 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 a Zamperla Motocoaster styled as horses.

Installations

Name	Location	Manufacturer	Trains	Opened
Booster Bike	Toverland	Vekoma	Motorbikes	2004	[2]
Velocity	Flamingo Land	Vekoma	Motorbikes	2005	[3]
Motorbike Launch Coaster	Chimelong Paradise	Vekoma	Motorbikes	2006	[4]
Motocoaster	Dreamworld	Intamin	Motorbikes	2007	[5]
Jet Rescue	Sea World (Australia)	Intamin	Jet Skis	2008	[6]
Moto Coaster	Six Flags Darien Lake	Zamperla	Motorbikes	2008	[7]
Pony Express	Knott's Berry Farm	Zamperla	Horses	2008	[8]
Moto Coaster	Jinjiang Action Park	Zamperla	Motorbikes	2009	[9]
Moto Bala	Mundo Petapa	Zamperla	Motorbikes	2010	[10]
MotoGee	Särkänniemi Amusement Park	Zamperla	Motorbikes	2010	[11]
Dinosaur Mountain	China Dinosaurs Park	Zamperla	Pterodactyls	2010	[12]
Steeplechase	Scream Zone Coney Island	Zamperla	Horses	2011	[13]
Juvelen	Djurs Sommerland	Intamin	All-terrain vehicles	2013	[14]
Rocket Cycles	Adventureland	Zamperla	Motorbikes	2014	[15]
Storm Rider	Xishuangbanna Sunac Land	Zamperla	Horses	2015	[16]
Tron Lightcycle Power Run	Shanghai Disneyland	Vekoma	Light cycles	2016	[17]
Wave Breaker: The Rescue Coaster	SeaWorld San Antonio	Intamin	Jet Skis	2017	[18]
Drydock Express	Wanda Theme Park	Zamperla	Horses	2018	[19]
Paradise Fall	Sun World Danang Wonders	Intamin	All-terrain vehicles	2018	[20]
Pioneer	OK Corral	Zierer	Horses	2018	[21]
Yukon Quad	Le Pal	Intamin	All-terrain vehicles	2018	[22]
Canavar Dalga	Wonderland Eurasia	Intamin	Jet Skis	2019	[23]
Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure	Universal Islands of Adventure	Intamin	Motorbikes	2019	[24]
Namazu	Vulcania	Intamin	All-terrain vehicles	2021	[25]
TRON Lightcycle / Run	Magic Kingdom	Vekoma	Light cycles	2023	[26]
DarKoaster: Escape The Storm	Busch Gardens Williamsburg	Intamin	Snow Mobiles	2023	[27]
Arctic Rescue	Sea World San Diego	Intamin	Snow Mobiles	2023	[28]