How old were you when you hit 1.4m

[Mazza]

I was about 7 or 8.

 

[Jools]

2002! so 7/8 I think, Air and Shockwave were my first 2 1.4 rides

 

[Rush]

I was a midget kid. My first 1.4m ride was in October 2004. I was 11 and had been denied from Colossus a few months earlier. :lol:

 

[YourNameGoesHere]

When I was 8, a month before I turned 9. But I didn't really care since I was (WAS!!!) too scared to go on anything. My first two 1.4m rides were Talon & Hydra.

 

[bazpa]

Absolutely no idea - I don't think they even bothered with things like that in my early days. Rides like Grand National had no restraints back in the day so H&S wasn't a big issue. I can't remember ever getting turned away from any ride.

 

[Beans]

I think we only had a few and I can't remember seeing ride restrictions at all blimey how things have changed!!

 

[OfficialAltonTowers]

8, I rode oblivion on its opening day, now that im 6 foot 2, its hard to believe that i was that small once upon a time !

 

[Anonymous]

I think I was eleven, up until 2-3 years ago I was small for my age, now i'm about average. Of course, I didn't ride any big coasters until I was 12, so it didn't have much of an impact.

 

[Anonymous]

I was 8. We went to Disney World and I went on Rock N' Roller Coaster for the first time since I now met the height requirement of 48 inches. I wasn't into coasters that much back then, I was actually quite scared of them. Much different than I am now...

 

[jjjjustin]

11 years old

 

[tomahawk]

I think I was 7. I went to SFMM, and I was tall enough to ride Viper, but I was too scared too, so I rode Revolution all day. Wow, that was like 1996, I feel old.

 

[nemesisamazing]

9 years

 

[alexdude98]

10 years old! Not that long ago considering I'm probably CF's youngest member. (Or one of the.)

 

[AquaTrax]

With shoes on I think it was right before my 10th birthday, or a little bit after it. Without shoes I was 10 also.

 

[BBH]

I was around 7, but didn't get to my first real theme park until the age of about 10.

 

[reddude333]

Feel like it must have been somewhere near birth for me ...but in reality, probably around 6 or 7.

 

[ignace]

13... I always was to small for my age.

 

[furie]

9 or 10 is around the age you should be reaching it, but those destined for 6'3" or taller will hit it at 7 or 8 (using the average graphs and stuff that they use in the medical profession for making thing sup ).

Minor_Furie was 12 I think, and then really borderline. Maxi-Minor_Furie should hit it before he's 8 (I think he's about 1.36 cm now), but he's destined for 6'8" if he's unlucky - here's hoping for no mid-teen growth spurt for him.

Does anybody know why in the US, it tends to be a 54" height limit (1.37M), but over here it's 1.4M instead? I assume it's interpretations of the guidance given by manufacturers - so Intamin may say "Minimum safe height 1.37cm/54" " and then each park, or the country/continental H&S says "add in xx as a safe variance"? In the US, they just don't add it in, or in Europe, they add in a lot more?

It's just that 55" is pretty much 1.4M, so it's odd to have the difference - it also means that the US members get onto the bigger coasters younger than we do

 

[Rachel]

I think I was around 8, although I wouldn't actually go on anything until I was about 10/11.

 

[Mysterious Sue]

I'm actually still only 1.3m - I just have myself stretched before every park trip