I was on these in wester hailes Edinburgh early eighties. No guard rail back then! There was neds getting thrown off nearly every spin back then! Few pusses smashed in, in the day.. 😂
Brilliant machine I actually worked on this in the 70s done seven. Seasons with them, finished . travelling about 12 years ago, with Pat Collins, Anthony Harris. I now work casual with them when they come to Chester.
Not so much the weight of the ride, The centre of the rideknown as the spiders web was very time consuming building up and dismantling . Most of the ones that are travelling still the centre is mounted on a trailer and in some cases they are hydraulically fold ups, worked on pat Collins funfairs forover15 seasons.
Just a small Correction to the description title..the last 2 minutes of this footage was taken at Warsop fair just off Sherwood St we opened there also and our machine is in the background (Tagada )
We used to ride this backwards. You sit on one of the outer bikes and with your back to the handle bars and then put your right leg against the metal fence thing.
i remember being on this ride in the 70s, my dad was on with me, i must've been about 7 or 8, i was lifting off the seat with the speed, i was crapping myself
