Bellwald-Richinen (4K) - Eine VonRoll Ära geht zu ende! (1993 - 2022)

[@bowie2004]

This is a very interesting lift as I have never seen a high speed double before

[@Seilbahn77]

In Switzerland we have some of them.

[@CBF1]

@@Seilbahn77 Mostly Garaventas, and a couple of Leitners. This(the 2-CLD Richinen) is the final Von Roll 2-CLD in Switzerland. I'd love to buy the Stations of Richinen, but David Wysssen(Sportbahnen Bellwald CEO) decided to be a modern fat bastard and send them to the scrap heap. I'm not buying ANYTHING from Sportbahnen Bellwald unless if they hand me the stations and pylon rollers over this instant!

[@CBF1]

Bowie The world's first detachable monocable ropeways were 2-CLD's and they were made by the very manufacturer which produced Richinen except they had seemingly higher build quality than Richinen does... poor thing can only run at half it's full potential. At least the Wixi chairlift ran at it's full potential and that's the 2nd VH400 Light, the system which Richinen was also built as. Richinen is the 3rd and final VH400 light existing, and final one built of just 3 made.

[@skiliftplanet]

Vielen Dank für das schöne Video. Es ist eine Schande, diesen Sessellift abzubauen, es ist ein Verbrechen! 😞

[@Seilbahn77]

Ja leider wird er abgebaut aber ich kann die Betreiber sehr gut verstehen, da die Konstruktion nicht wirklich gut ist.

[@CBF1]

Skilift Planet The existence of the Doppelmayr D-Line is a crime as well. These assholes who only care about "efficiency" and "the economy" should have their totally garbage modern lifts bombed as punishment for destroying something with character and replacing it for something with no character.

[@falafelraffel8140]

@@CBF1 99% of ropeway users dont care what kind of chairlift they're on. They don't want to queue half an hour and then sit on some wooden planks moving with 1.5 m/s. They are happy having all of their family sitting together in one chair and not splitting up. They well-like not waiting, they like seat heating and many people rather want to spend their time on slopes and not on some ancient lift. All those ski resorts do is fulfilling their customers demands in keeping their resort up to date. Look at the Ernergalen ski resorts, just located 3 km away from Bellwald. They had their last ever operating season in 2009 while Bellwald built an new CLD. They never had financial resources to construct any detachable ropeways. Due to that, potential customers spend their holidays in nearby resort like Bellwald or Aletsch Arena as they had modern facilities. I know, those new D-Line Ropeways are quite monotone as they pop out all across the alps. But if every ropeway was unique, just a fraction of resorts could actually afford them.

[@CBF1]

@@falafelraffel8140 At the same time while being extremist to the old ones by MELTING THEM and thinking nothing of it and replacing them with something that's already been built over 50 f-ing times that ISN'T EVEN SPECIAL because of how many of it's kind there already are. It's much more than just "fuLfIlLiNg CuStOmER DemAnDs" IT'S THROWING AWAY DIAMONDS AND PICKING UP ROCKS because old ski lifts are DIFFERENT and the extremely loatheable new ones are NOT. Society is just as expectant and demanding as spoiled kids are and they do NOT deserve to have their precious expectations delivered to them if that's going to mean misery, suffering and depression for us enthusiasts watching the extremely hateable modern people take our beloved jewellry(the old ski lifts) away from us all permanently. I care nothing about the shitty economy either. It's just a retarded rule in society that removes people's rights if they don't live up to today's demonic expectations in which the beautiful old ski lifts end up like how steam locomotives did back in the 1950's-1960's. Adults are just children that are physically grown up and not mentally. If they were mentally grown up, they wouldn't be complaining about vintage lifts not being efficient and modern. They're told to be expectant of such childish demands at school or something like that. We need to save the old ski lifts, we must NOT surrender to the dictatorial economy and we must stop spoiling these greedy impatient little Veruca Salts of customers whose maturities don't even differ to that of a 5 year old. Think of old ski lifts this way: They are like Classic Cars but in the form of a Ski Lift. Thank goodness Germany and France still have lots of very old ski lifts. Germany and Austria though? Modern nazis everywhere who can't stand to see a single thing different to modern expectations. Enthusiasts of Ski Lifts should be considered of importance as well. Not just enthusiasts of skiing.