Mean Streak is a wooden roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. Opened in 1991 and constructed using 1.7 million board feet (4,000 m³) of treated Southern Yellow Pine, it was one of the tallest, fastest and longest wooden roller coasters in the world. Mean Streak is one of two wooden roller coasters operating at Cedar Point; the other being the Blue Streak. The Gemini and Cedar Creek Mine Ride have supports constructed out of wood, but run on tubular steel track thus they are not wooden roller coasters, but steel roller coaster hybrids.[1] The track is re-tracked almost every year and has its own carpentry staff.[2]
With a duration time 3 minutes and 13 seconds, the Mean Streak is the longest ride of any roller coaster in the park. In 2011, Cedar Point celebrated the Mean Streak's 20th anniversary.
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After ascending the 161-foot-tall lift hill, Mean Streak drops riders at a 52-degree-angle and over two large elevated curves. An on-ride-photo system takes rider's pictures at the mid-ride block brake run. Mean Streak criss-crosses its wooden structure nine times at speeds up to 65 mph (105 km/h). Trim Brakes have been added to the rides first drop, and it is today considered a rough ride.
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Mean Streak is one of the last two coasters to be built by Dinn Corporation. The other is the now-defunct Psyclone at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
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