Gibsons brothers Brandon, Ryan and Jack Sheriff from the Pacific Coast Mini Road-racing Club (PCMRC) helped set a Guinness world record on Oct. 26 at the PNE in Vancouver by riding motorbikes over daredevil Burnaby Q. Orbax 70 times while he lay on a bed of nails.
This stunt more than doubled the existing record of 31, set by Simone Calati in 2013.
“It was as many bikes as we could in two minutes. It’s on YouTube, it’s all over, it’s going crazy,” the boys’ father Rob Sheriff said. “Brandon, Ryan and Jack all rode over him. Honda was a bit worried about Jack running him over – with Jack being only nine.”
The stunt involved 12 riders in total, mostly comprised of PCMRC members – including the Sheriff boys – plus a few other guys from the Honda centre.
The motorbikers rode in a continuous circle, ramping their bikes off of Orbax for almost two minutes.
“The existing record was 31 and we did 70 with 20 seconds to go,” Sheriff said. “But the ramp moved a little bit and when it moved he just couldn’t take anymore bikes because it was dragging the ramp down on him.”
Orbax and his brother Sweet Pepper Klopek make up a sideshow duo called the Monsters of Schlock that has performed at Vancouver Playland’s Fright Nights for the last eight years. The two have become famous in Vancouver for stunts like these.
In 2009 they set the record for most mousetraps released on a human tongue in one minute. In 2011 they broke the record for pulling a truck the farthest with meat hooks attached to a human back; to do this, Orbax pulled a four tonne truck 111.7 metres. In 2013 they also broke the record for weightlifting with hooks attached to a human face.
Sheriff said that his boys were thrilled to be part of record-setting history. He said he is hoping that more kids will take an interest in motorbike racing and join the PCMRC.
“We’re trying to get some money raised to get the kids to ride the nationals in Calgary and Saskatchewan,” Sheriff said.
Nationals are in August next year. The Sheriffs can be found on their website www.sheriffracing.ca
