ZipRider® Operation

In addition to the technology and patents of the ZipRider®, the ease of daily operation is why the ZipRider® is in a league of its own. With the ZipRider®, the trolley is designed to remain mounted onto the riding cable during normal operations and stays mounted until it is dismounted for routine inspection and maintenance. The standardized harnesses are connected to the trolleys before the ride opens to the public and are removed when the ride closes at the end of the day. The riding equipment NEVER leaves the ride cables throughout the day. After customers complete the ride our exclusive "Equipment Retrieval System" returns the trolleys and the attached harnesses to the top of the ride for the next set of customers.

Typical zip lines require that each guest be fitted with a climbing style harness before each tour, a repetitive, labor intensive, and time consuming process that requires skilled personnel and a staging area for the fitting. Furthermore, even the best and most skilled operator will become less attentive and prone to error as they fatigue during the day, degrading the safety of the ride. Our patented ZipRider® harness safely seats and simply secures guests within a broad size range (75lb to 275lb, 48 in to 78in) without the need for either a staging area or skilled personnel for fitting and requires little adjustment between guests.

A typical zip line ride also requires that the ride equipment be manually mounted onto and removed from the riding cable once per guest. The ride equipment and harnesses also need to be retrieved from the end of the ride and returned to the top of the ride before its reuse by subsequent guests, generally by the ride operators using additional transport vehicles or even by asking the guests to carry these items themselves. This approach has several shortcomings that are overcome by the exclusive ZipRider® "Equipment Retrieval System". The typical zip line needs more manpower for mounting and removing the ride equipment from the riding cable than the ZipRider®, which needs no additional personnel by automatically performing this task. Repeatedly mounting and removing the ride equipment from the riding cable also increases ride cycle time, which reduces rider throughput and consequently revenue. Manually mounting and dismounting the ride equipment leads to operator fatigue, thereby increasing the likelihood of operator error and degrades ride safety. Furthermore, asking the guest to carry the ride equipment and harness allows all of the equipment they carry to go out of the control of the ride operators and exposes the resort or facility to all of the accompanying liabilities along with the potential for undetected damage to occur during transport. The ZipRider®, with its "Equipment Retrieval System", keeps the ride trolleys and harnesses under operator control at all times during operation.

Efficient operation and safe operation go hand-in-hand with the ZipRider®. Beyond the archaic and inefficient methods of traditional zip lines and canopy tours the act of suiting each guest in a climbing harness and clipping the trolley to the cable for every cycle compromises safety; it is a repetitive, labor intensive, and time consuming procedure that ultimately results in operator error and customer accidents. With the ZipRider®, there is only one trolley and harness mounted to each cable that is cycled by our patented "Equipment Retrieval System", improving rider throughput while decreasing operator labor requirements and fatigue. In addition, ONE trolley and harness per cable, and ONE rider per cable means there is no chance of rider collision.