Freak Out - (KMG)(Fiesta Shows)

Freak Out is a mini version of the KMG ride "Afterburner". It has four gondolas on a large rotating arm which can swing up to 120 degrees. Unlike Afterburner, Freak Out travels from front to back instead of side to side. This particular one is owned and operated by Fiesta Shows of New England. Great Fun!
Ride Specs:
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Manufacturer : KMG
Sizes (w x d x h) : 14.5 x 11.1 x 21 m
Weight : 28 ton
Power : 125 A, 400 V
Number of Gondolas : 4
Capacity persons : 16
Persons per hour : 500
Number of transports : 1
Links:
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Fiesta Shows : www.fiestashows.com/rides/byid...
KMG Rides : www.kmg.nl/kmg/factory/freakou...
Filmed on - Saturday, July 13, 2013 (North Attleboro, MA - Kids Day)

[@001GenLee]

Great video! Don't let me make you change your mind about riding it, I still ride Freak Out, but at its maximum height, watch the A frame carefully! The very top of the A where the ride swings on, watch it shift / twitch just slightly. THIS has always paranoid me about the Freak Out. The ride has great outriggers on the bottom, but the A frame is up in the air by its lonesome, just 2 hydraulic cylinders supporting it. If I were KMG?, i'd re-do every Freak Out and put wind braces or some kind of bracing that would bolt or have it made to where a pin can go thru & an R key at the end of the pin, and have the braces go back & be pinned onto the bottom outriggers. By doing that, it would make the A frame more SOLID and cut out that "just slightly shifting". That is ALOT of torque in the very center of that A frame the Freak Out pivots on!

[@001GenLee]

If you watch the KMG Afterburner in action at its maximum height, the frame doesn't move / give like Freak Out's does. Y? The outriggers on the main frame the ride itself swings on, is better spaced apart. The A frame's outriggers on Freak Out are way too close together / too "inwards" you could say, they're not space more out. If the A frame's outriggers were say, 5 or 10 feet more outwards than what they are on all Freak Outs made by KMG, the ride would not look like it's about to give-way in the very center / top of that A frame. Not sure what the designers were thinking, but the A frame's legs need spaced apart more so, then, I wouldn't feel as paranoid about that.. But, I will always ride a Freak Out when I see one and just hope that A frame isn't stressed out enough to come apart! Now THAT would SUCK!