I use to do a lot of skidding too, made my dad mad because he was the one buying me my tires, so we found skid slick tires, that had real thick rubber, it took a long time to wear those out, and as a bonus, my flats went way down!

There was school near where I lived that had steps that went up about 14 steps, but there was a pretty good amount of concrete on top to get enough speed to get going and jump the stairs.

We did that sort of crap on those stingray bicycles when I was a pre teen, but later I still did that same stair jumping thing on a 3 speed Schwinn Racer.

I think I mentioned this, but in my late teens and early twenties back in the early to mid 70's we use to take cheap 10 speed bikes and go trail riding in the mountains of Southern Calif, unbeknownst to me at the time that sort of riding was going on all over the US on 10 speed bikes and some custom built bikes by riders. Try doing that with a modern road bike!