David J Ellis
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About
YouTube star and content creator with over 90,000 subscribers on his davidjellis channel, where he uploads videos about roller coasters. As of January 2025, he has ridden over 1250 rollercoasters, a feat only a few dozen people have ever achieved. One of his videos, of riding the Mieders Alpine Coaster with no brakes, went viral with over 12 million views.
Before Fame
He started riding roller coasters at the age of 10 and his first was at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach. He uploaded his first video in April 2007, of the Log Ride at Ocean Beach in Rhyl, North Wales.
Trivia
He is an accountant. He participated in and helped set a Guinness World record for most naked people riding a roller coaster, 102, at Adventure Island, Southend, England, on August 8 2010, to help raise money for breast cancer screening equipment for the local hospital.
Family Life
His wife, Susan, sometimes accompanies him on rollercoasters.
Associated With
Taylor Bybee is another roller coaster YouTuber.
