Why Is Goliath's Chain Lift So Slow? (+Additional Goliath Facts)

Sometime during it's first third of it's life span, six flags magic mountain's goliath's chain lift speed was slowed down and i investigate it in this video!
Videos used to make this:
Six Flags Magic Mountain - CLOSED- drone flyover (Santa Clarita Drone) - • Six Flags Magic Mounta...
Viper 2021 pov (Coaster Corsair) - • Viper | AMAZING Arrow ...
Crazy packed friday at six flags (Maad Theme Park Updates) - • CRAZY PACKED FRIDAY AT...
Twisted Colossus Pov 2021 (Lets Park It) - • Twisted Colossus POV -...
Goliath at Six Flags Magic Mountain Off-Ride Footage (No Copyright) (Airtime Thrills Raw Footage) - • Goliath at Six Flags M...
Official Titan POV | Six Flags Over Texas - • Official Titan POV | S...
Goliath POV - • Goliath
Goliath POV (60FPS) - Six Flags Magic Mountain (2000) (Sean Flaharty) - • Goliath POV (60FPS) - ...
2 different povs goliath six flags magic mountain (Menachem Piekarski) - • 2 different povs golia...
2004 Goliath POV (becca322) - • Goliath
2005 Goliath POV (WizKid) - • Golaith
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[@Jcjc-lr4bf]

You’re honestly so right about everything dude

[@conorsheridan2998]

I enjoy this

[@JJJJ-he8bz]

I herd it because they don’t want to put to much stress on the chain as it releases at the top. Steel Dragon 2000 and the Morgan hypers also do this.

[@blissfulblizzards5825]

Huh, that’s interesting! That would make a lot more sense :P

[@dowpao6971]

See you when this reachs 1M views

[@rdbarne]

It's true.....I can't stand those POV's with the locked horizon