• Backyard Coasters

  Written by The Coaster Critic 2 Comments
  Last Updated: May 28, 2006

  DIY Movement in the Coaster World
  The Blue Flash is quite an achivement. It’s not only a backyard, home-made steel coaster, but it has a loop. I don’t want to know how the testing went for that loop or how many times it didn’t work. The creator’s even working on Blue 2, his follow-up to the Blue Flash. Blue 2 will be a family coaster and it will seat four instead of just one.

  Jeremy Reid of Oklahoma built a wooden coaster for under $6,000. Sure it only has a top speed of 20 mph, but you got to tip your hat to such a do-it-yourself mentality. If only I had the engineering skills. And a yard. And time. And money. And …

  

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2 Comments

1. #1 Quil says:
   December 8th, 2009 at 7:04 am

   Tom has a video of a backyard rollercoster on his yoputube page. just click on his name over one of his comments.

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2. #2 Tom says:
   December 8th, 2009 at 9:10 pm

   I bet I would have built one of those by now if I had more time and money…

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