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Skating Down a Roller Coaster

By John Farrier in Odd News on Jul 22, 2009 at 8:36 am


German daredevil Dirk Auer established a new world record when he raced down a 860-meter wood roller coaster track in under a minute. He maintained an average speed of 56 mph on custom skates that he built himself:


‘After this some of the sides were so high that at times I was at 90 degrees and so it was very important to have as much traction as possible. Luckily everything went according to plan – it was a lot of fun.’

Mr Auer, from Gross-Gerau near Frankfurt, is considered to be the most extreme in-line skater in the world.

He already holds the world record for reaching speeds of 190mph as he was dragged along behind a Porsche GT2.

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  1. Adragontattoo
    Jul 22nd, 2009 at 8:52 am

    Where do I sign up, and sign the waiver that states I wont sue when I fall off?

    WANT!

  2. gurnorg
    Jul 22nd, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Wow. that doesn't look undignified at alll......(snark!)

  3. Sergio
    Jul 22nd, 2009 at 9:52 am

    Is there a video of this?

  4. Babycakes
    Jul 22nd, 2009 at 11:39 am

    that looks like fun! I agree with Adragontattoo.

  5. zavatone
    Jul 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    I used to skate up and down the hills in San Francisco, and Auckland. What he is doing is pure death. Completely insane.

  6. Stefan
    Jul 22nd, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    this looks amazing!! I want to skate down the superman roller coaster!! (one of the biggest drops in the world)If there is one way that I'd want to go out I'd be that!

  7. Christophe
    Jul 22nd, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    insane! ;)

  8. I dunno lol
    Jul 23rd, 2009 at 12:08 am

    There was a youtube clip but he decided to pull it

  9. Debbie
    Jul 23rd, 2009 at 3:30 am

    Video on YouTube

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA9Sb0gnsFQ

  10. FunkDaddy
    Jul 23rd, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Cripes man, wear a full face helmet! If anything went wrong the first thing you're gonna do is smash your teeth into those boards!

  11. ted
    Jul 23rd, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    So dangerous. And he looks like a total idiot. I am so envious.

  12. krissa
    Jul 24th, 2009 at 1:51 am

    Wow that looks like tons of fun to be honest but those skates were built to cgrab the sides of the coster (like the roller coster cars are meant to do) so its not like he could easily roll of all he really had to do is have some pretty big balls, hold on tight, and pray he doesnt fall back...Haha

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