Steel Vengeance

Mean Streak
Mean Streak
Cedar Point
Location	Cedar Point
Status	Operating
Opening date	May 11, 1991
Cost	$7,500,000 USD
General statistics
Type	Wood
Manufacturer	Dinn Corporation
Designer	Curtis D. Summers
Track layout	Oval path traced three times
Lift/launch system	Chain lift
Inversions	0
Duration	3:13
Max vertical angle	52°
Capacity	1,600 riders per hour
Mean Streak at RCDB

For other uses, see Steel Vengeance (disambiguation).

Mean Streak is a wooden roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. It is a wooden roller coaster and was the tallest and fastest one of its kind when it debuted in 1991. It was constructed using 1.7 million board feet (4,000 m³) of treated Southern Yellow pine, and if stacked one in front of the other could span the US from Washington DC to Sacramento just over three times. Although Cedar Point holds the record for the most roller coasters at one park (17), Mean Streak is one of only two wooden roller coasters there. The track is re-tracked almost every year. The ride also has its own carpentry staff as well.

With a duration time of just over three minutes, the Mean Streak is the longest ride of any roller coaster in the park.

The ride

After ascending the 161-foot-tall lift hill, Mean Streak drops riders at a 52-degree-angle and over two large elevated curves. The on-ride-photo is at the bottom of the second curve. Mean Streak criss-crosses the wooden structure nine times, and speeds through the wooden supports at 65 mph. Mean Streak truly lives up to its name as it known for its teeth rattling ride quality that many riders find painful.

In 1991, when the ride first opened, it was much smoother. However, as the years have passed and have naturally aged the wood, the ride has gotten much rougher.

Ride images

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