Originally Posted by cavernmech
I don't know if he is still around but Chris Bishop from D.C. would give him a run for the title. When we had the NACCC's in Toronto we had a pretty long skid course. At the end was a barricade to keep folk's out of traffic on Cherry Street. Not only did he go the whole length of the course but he also skidded around the barricade...thru traffic....around another barricade on the other side and just kept going. That s#!t was the bomb. It takes a certain (read nuts) type to pull that off.
If I remember correctly, it was a mouth dropping occurance.
I was the starter of the event and thought I had set the skid line far enough away from Cherry St. that no way was anyone going to reach it. Surprise - Chris had just come back from a beer run, almost losing his start time, so when I called him he was stoke to move - and did he move - like a shot when he hit the line but so smooth, and kept on going, and going, and, and, and there was silence, then awe, then screaming.
He went around both barriers at Cherry and Mill to stop 6 inches short of the west curb of Cherry St. I paced off the distance to about 140 meters, then went back the next day with a tape measure - 146.5 meters. Unbelievable.