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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Dirk Auer -- Skating on a Roller Coaster

clipped from www.china.org.cn
clipped from www.china.org.cn
Stuntman skates a rollercoaster in 1 minuit!
Dirk Auer takes on the Mammoth rollercoaster at Trips Drill theme park, Stuttgart, Germany in a pair of rollerskates. Nutty stuntman Dirk Auer travelling at speeds up to 90 km/h and withstood forces of up 3G, as he skated the entire length of the rollercoaster a whopping 860 meters in just a minute! The stunt was extremely dangerous because a fall either side of the rollercoaster would almost certainly result in death. The custom made skates used for the stunt were designed and made by Dirk Auer himself, the construction took 110 hours of work. Each shoe has 16 wheels and weighs 20 kilogramms, 40 meters of aluminium. [CFP]
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What a scream! Adrenaline junkie skates down 860 metre roller coaster... in just 60 seconds

Dirk Auer

The German built custom-made skates for the stunt and had 16 wheels on each shoe

Dirk Auer in Stutgart Germany

Auer makes it safely down the wooden roller coaster in just over a minute

Dirk Auer in Stutgart Germany

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