Booster Bike Motorcycle Roller Coaster

Dennis Chung
by Dennis Chung

It’s not as cool as riding a roller coaster track on a real trials bike but then most of us aren’t paid by Red Bull to pull crazy stunts like that, there’s this motorcycle roller coaster in the Netherlands.

The ride is called the Booster Bike, a roller coaster in the Toverland amusement park in Sevenum, in the southeaster Netherlands. What sets this apart from conventional roller coasters is instead of sitting inside a cart, riders straddle motorcycle-shaped cars in a sportbike riding position. Here’s how it looks:

While the Booster Bike isn’t the first motorcycle roller coaster – Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, Calif., had one called the Motorcycle Chase featuring riders on parallel tracks astride motorcycles that resembled Indians; it was later redesigned as the Wacky Soap Box Racers ride due to concerns about the bikes’ high center of gravity – it did spawn a new generation of similar rides since opening in 2004,

The Booster Bike is actually a prototype, with the ride’s builder, Vekoma, later building two identical rides in the U.K’s Flamingo Land park and the Chimelong Paradise park in China. Since then, other ride builders have come otu with their own versions, such as the Mick Doohan Motocoaster in Australia’s DreamWorld park by Intamin and the Zamperla-built MotoCoaster in Darien Lake in New York. Vekoma built another, much larger, TRON-themed ride for Shanghai Disneyland, and has been contracted to build a similar one in Walt Disney World in Florida by 2021.

Dennis Chung
Dennis Chung

Dennis has been a part of the Motorcycle.com team since 2008, and through his tenure, has developed a firm grasp of industry trends, and a solid sense of what's to come. A bloodhound when it comes to tracking information on new motorcycles, if there's a new model on the horizon, you'll probably hear about it from him first.

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  • HeDidn'tWeDid HeDidn'tWeDid on Dec 12, 2017

    What's REALLY cool is they replicated the sound of an old HD very accurately. Nice. Neat ride, but I am not sure this would go over in the South with our crazy bugs. Protective bandannas would have to be issued for protection.

  • 12er 12er on Dec 12, 2017

    My Mom cracked a rib on "Wacky Soap Box Racers" way way back when. You were in a box on a high center of gravity so it whipped you around pretty significantly when it made a turn. Side of the box hit her in the ribs as you weren't tightly supported and just sitting in a box basically.

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