Riders try to set record on Compounce Wildcat for cash and prizes

Posted | Contributed by supermandl

A 48-year old postal clerk has returned to Lake Compunce to defend his record of 2,001 consecutive laps on the Wildcat. If he outlasts his opponents, he'll win $2,000 and a ski boat.

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I want to do something like this one day!

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Joey Ciborek, Florida Coaster Club, Member
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4,002 fan turns!!! This oughta' be intersting....

I can take many rides on the Wildcat because it's smooth and tame, but never would imagine 200+ consecutively.

LOL Atlantis :-)

Obviously the statement of someone who's never ridden the Compounce Wildcat :-)

I'm not one to slander classic rides but it'd take a hell of a lot more than $2000 and a ski boat to get *me* to ride that thing for over 2000 laps as it certainly wasn't "smooth" when I rode it last year :-)
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If you make it too smooth then the contest would take way longer. This is why you see these contest on more intense rides.

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Chris Knight
CP Sea Gull population 1,000,000
CP Mufflehead population 1,000,000,000

Nope I havent been there. But I hope to go in October.

That would be cool to do even if there wasn't a prize. Tryin to sleep on a coaster, that would be funny. Do they try to sleep or not?

They stop at night and make them sleep in the station house or train.

No they don't. It runs all night. They get there sleep on the lift and brake run at first then once they get REALLY tired their body won't wake up for the whole ride.

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It's his turn to feast, when you ride the Son of Beast.

On the marathon for Great American Scream Machine and Big Dipper, they stopped at night.

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Lake Compounce-So Fresh and So Clean Clean

vertigo do you mean SFOG's GASM? when was this, and why was it for? prizes? who asked them to do it?

Here's all you could want to know about it, it all started in 98', screamin' over Georiga......

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..........13,000 rides on that Scream Machine, could they ever have stopped? Not for 61 days.

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Lake Compounce-So Fresh and So Clean Clean *** This post was edited by Vertigo on 6/20/2002. ***

Ack ... I could barely take two laps on the Wildcat! It was kind of rough.

Ouch. Maybe he should try for 2001+ laps on Boulder Dash instead... :)

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