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coasterphotos
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 Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject: Bullet Closed |
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Boardwalk Bullet is closed for the off-season maintenance that was delayed due to Ike. Didn't get too good of a view since it was dark but it looked like they are in the process of replacing the wood on the first drop.
Also, the new drop tower is all lit up and looks pretty cool.
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Markieb
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: Re: Bullet Closed |
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| coasterphotos wrote: | | Also, the new drop tower is all lit up and looks pretty cool. |
and where are our pictures of that?  |
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coasterphotos
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Bullet Closed |
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| Markieb wrote: | | coasterphotos wrote: | | Also, the new drop tower is all lit up and looks pretty cool. |
and where are our pictures of that? |
It wasn't a planned trip...noticed it lit up from the Target parking lot. Since we hadn't thought about it, we forgot to take a camera with. May try to go down tomorrow evening and get some pictures to share.
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Markieb
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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Daffy
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| When will it be back Open? |
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nholt
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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I stopped by this afternoon and saw a lot of work being done on the bullet particularly on the first drop and turn. A crew was on the first drop taking the rails off and on the first turn it looked like the track had already been removed.
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coasterphotos
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Daffy wrote: | | When will it be back Open? |
Don't know...they are doing a lot of work. It will probably be several weeks.
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nholt
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Thanks for for all the great photos!
Yea I imagine it will be several weeks. The work looked pretty extensive.
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Markieb
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:40 pm Post subject: Re: Bullet Closed |
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| coasterphotos wrote: | process of replacing the wood on the first drop.
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Do you know what the first wood will improve?
That is the part needing least of anything from the riders point of view.
Are they hoping to increase the overall speed that way? |
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Yeah I agree, the part they are working on (the same part that was town down last time) has been 'fixed' from a riders standpoint for some time now. Your guess is as good as any, perhaps they are changing it to increase the speed as you speculate.
All the track and ledgers have now been COMPLETELY removed at the bottom of the drop going around to the zig zag!
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nholt
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| guruguy wrote: |
All the track and ledgers have now been COMPLETELY removed at the bottom of the drop going around to the zig zag!
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So I wasn't just going crazy when I saw what appeared to be NO track? 
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Markieb
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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Certainly interesting place to be working. Makes you wonder...
I can't help but to guess by working on something on the drop they hope to bring the speed up 3-5 mph. |
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| ^Heh, funny how that is perfect for Winterfest. |
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