Ride of Steel

A forceful first turn, a first helix with great positives, a second helix with good laterals, and airtime that gets better as the ride goes on.

Eric Esty

Like almost all Intamins, the coaster is smooth and has great airtime, especially on the return section of bunny hills.

Coaster101

Great first drop, awesome floater and ejector airtime on the camelbacks, and it’s a nice long experience with those long helixes and lots of land to work with.

Matt Rappaport

There are plenty of great moments of floater air time and the helixes over the water is a very nice feature.

Austin L.

Was slower, had less airtime, and even tho it was the best coaster at SFDL, that’s not saying much with how terrible the park is in general.

TheClassicRemake Man

That said, its best attribute is the high speed at which you take these elements and how smooth and big each element is.

David

This has some great airtime and comfortability but the opps are terrible and there’s some points in the layout we’re it does nothing like the infamous straight section.

Insane Coasters

Speaking of trains, they received at least one hand-me-down from SFGA, but it almost seems rougher than the old one for some reason.

John D

The drop is nice, but there is a bit of a rattle.

Molly Hogan

The turn after the first drop is really underrated, it pulls mad positives and lats, you really feel the speed as your hugging the ground.

3kRaay

Every hill hits, the helices are intense, the straight track over the water makes you *feel* like superman.

Ben Hagelin

Riding in the very back row was very intense going over the first hill into the drop.

Austin L.

The next turn introduces the under appreciated part of the ride, the intensity.

Bubble Gaming

The re-ridability of this coaster is high, not too intense and very enjoyable.

Coaster101

We’re even treated to some high speed straightaways over the water, and excellent intamin T-bar restraints.

Eric Esty

The speed especially through the helix’s are insane and the varied air time hills are great.

Alex MeaLynk

It’s a fun ride with a good sensation of speed, especially in front.

Coaster Nut

The thing never seems to lose speed through the whole run.

John D

Trim brakes ruined the first hill after the drop and the double helix as didn’t have enough speed going into it.

Matthew Steiniger

However now it runs very slow and gives barely any airtime.

Carter Eckhart

Only issue is waiting for the train to come back but that’s more of an issue with the park always doing one train operations, not the ride.

Alex MeaLynk

One train operations hurt this coaster for sure, but that’s just Darien Lake for you.

Matt Rappaport