Cody and Kyle Ives ride the Wall of Death. Supplied There were once at least 100 Walls of Death in North America, travelling with circuses and carnivals from town to town.

Motorcyclists ride around the inside of a vertical wall, rather like a huge barrel, at speeds of around 30mph. Most Wall of Death “drums” are about 32 feet (10 metres) in diameter.

To see Marv in action riding the SUPER73 e-bike on the Wall of Death, check out the video below. Oh, and even though it probably goes without saying, please do NOT attempt this at home. Add ...

The Wall of Death is a cylindrical wooden structure with room for spectators to stand at the top. Cody Ives, 21, and Kyle, 20, revved their engines in the flat space at the bottom of the cylinder ...

He joined Mr. Weil on the road and taught himself how to ride the wall in front of a crowd. Per tradition, nothing is practiced, and he fell about 14 times before he was able to get the act down.

This custom Super73 e-bike was built to ride the Wall of Death, a classic carnival attraction from the early 20th century.

Ride Rhett Rotten's Wall of Death POV. Watch from Rhett Giordano's POV as he rides his own Wall of Death. Watch. In order to enter the Wall of Death, ...

Wildwood's old Wall of Death is long gone but it lived on for a few more years after Tuffy the Lion was shot dead, according to a help-wanted ad in 1946. "Riders wanted," the ad read. "Good salary ...

Furze's goal was to ride one of his favorite modes of transportation — a drift trike — along the walls of a Wall of Death. Last time, he'd done a moped, but the wall rotted apart before he ...

A working model of a wall-of-death ride that used to thrill holidaymakers in Skegness is a star attraction at the next ...

Wildwood, a veritable Coney Island of its own, even has its own, hard-to-believe Wall of Death story. Some of the walls incorporated lions — real lions — in a motorcycle sidecar and on Oct. 5 ...