We've been told Canucks were only good for hockey and ice fishing, but after watching Ethan Barkley, we might want to add drag racing to that. The six-time Canadian Champion and Calgary native is a full-on G-force fool and he's got the trophies to prove it.

It came together the usual way for EB: spending his youth riding dirt bikes, he didn't catch the street bike bug until his 20s, when he took a buddy's Magna V65 out for a spin. The love affair with Japanese metal was on, and a Kawasaki ZX7 was soon sitting in his garage, followed shortly after by a 2001 GSX-R1000. Pretty soon he was regularly smoking the competition at his local track; as Barkley tells it, "the power was intoxicating." He now wrenches on and rides GSX-Rs and Hayabusas with the EB Speed team, setting records along the way. Ethan says he's definitely a speed junkie: "the feeling of accelerating always puts a smile on my face."

We saw that grin a lot in 2005, when he won all seven events in the series for a perfect season. Ultimately though, Barkley says he'd like to make it to the Big Show: "I would love to compete in the AMA Drag Bike Series and win the championship."

Stay tuned...