Anybody been yet to this new attraction yet? It is a company out of NZ that has set up at COP. Think crossing go carts with bicycles. All gravity fed. I did it a couple of times a few years back while in NZ and I was very stoked to hear that it was here.
I went with a crew of people on Friday and it is some of the most fun I have had in a while. It feels very fast and It is the closest you will ever get to real life Mario cart.
32 bucks for 5 runs (about 1.5hrs) and it gets better each time you head down the hill.
Was it around last year? Would have been much better to have seen this on the Amazing Race Canada instead of the teams going to Ranchmans to line dance. Ugh.
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No, I think it did a soft opening on Canada Day weekend. I only heard about it on Fan 960 and once I connected the dots that it was the same company I went immediately.
I was talking to one guy and he said the carts all brand new and they are not broken in yet so they will be getting faster. We could smell burnt rubber the whole time we were racing.
He also stated that it is better when the track is a bit wet because you can drift the carts if you have the skill.
Most in my group are about 6'2 210ish but we have a 6'4 250lb and a 510 350lb guy.
In your experience seeing people there would they both fit into the cart fine?
Their website seems broke, do they require reservations or you just show up and pay?
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They have this at Mt Tremblant in Quebec as well. We have done it a number of times and so much fun.
The last time we were there it was to drive on the race track and doing it with a bunch of race car drivers and want to be race drivers was an absolute blast if a bit out of control
I would put it in the most fun you have with your clothes on category
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I would say it could enhance your experience. That said there are other people on the track so I would be wary of hitting the track up after four hours in a beer garden.
I have a few friends in camp big and tall. They go faster.
Maybe some physics experts can correct me, but...
I'd guessthe opposite to be true. The lighter person has less friction between them and the road. Also your going to have frictional forces in the bike itself.
Taller is also not an advantage as that creates more wind resistance.
So, it's going to depend on the nature of the bikes and the road. The less friction there is the more the heavier person would have an advantage and vice versa. In the case of a waterslide, heavy people would win, but in the case of bikes that could generate a considerable degree of friciton, lighter might be better.
Mass won't matter (nerd explanation in spoilers). Wind resistance may slow down a bigger person though, just because there's more of them.
This looks like fun though, may have to check it out. As a bigger person, I'd hope just to fit on the kart.
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Net Force = Force in Positive X' - Force in Negative X'
sum of the forces in Y' = 0 so Fn = mgcos(theta)
and force due to friction = k*Fn = kmgcos(theta), where k is the coeffecient of friction
Net Force = mgsin(theta) - kmgcos(theta)
ma = mgsin(theta) - kmgcos(theta)
ma= m[gsin(theta) - kgcos(theta)]
a = gsin(theta) - kgcos(theta)
EDIT: As TSXman pointed out, the wheels are not sliding. So my explanation is wrong.
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I'd guessthe opposite to be true. The lighter person has less friction between them and the road. Also your going to have frictional forces in the bike itself.
Taller is also not an advantage as that creates more wind resistance.
So, it's going to depend on the nature of the bikes and the road. The less friction there is the more the heavier person would have an advantage and vice versa. In the case of a waterslide, heavy people would win, but in the case of bikes that could generate a considerable degree of friciton, lighter might be better.
I am basing my stance on experience. I have one friend who is two standard surferguys and he always managed to blow by me on the long stretches. I think it is a momentum thing. Oh and something about mass. I will sit back now and wait for Photon to tell us we are both wrong.
More mass = more gravitation force Fg downwards. Frictional force Ff is directly dependent on Fg and the friction coeff., but when you are dealing with wheels, they are not sliding, the are statically friction gripped to the ground.
So heavy guys go faster, larger bodies introduce larger drag forces. So be short and dense
Heavier guys can overcome more of the drag force seems to be the main reason. Assuming these have hard wheels that aren't compressing much different between the riders
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