Name: Skidmarks
Age: 20 - 30 (Could be older in some cases as some were once business men and women working in the offices of Inkopolis. Apparently, the stress and repetitiveness of their jobs made them turn into clowns in search of fun times!
Species: Inklings, Octolings
Appearance: They dress as clowns complete with clown hair, overalls, clown shoes, and wacky shirts. They all wear ties. Their mode of transportation is a Skidmarks Bike which is basically a Trail Hog that has been modified as a weapon.
Weapons: Their bikes are their weapons. They carry no hand weapons at all. The bikes can be modded to have frontal attachments like giant pie launchers or rocket nose in which the entire bike would essentially be a rocket complete with rear ink nozzle for thrust.
Personality: They're clowns, what else can be said. They don't attempt to follow any rules in Turf War and will try to cheat as often as possible.
- As mentioned before some of the Skidmarks were once professional business men and women. Too much stress and repetitiveness of their jobs made them into clowns who are now in search of fun and laughter.
- They paint their bikes with some type of multicolored green paint that can glow like a neon sign. No one knows if there is a power source or if the paint needs power at all.
- The bikes are weapons. The Skidmarks seem to be as creative as the Trail Hogs and have found a way to get rid of hand held weapons completely. They also seem to imitate whatever they see. An example being the Salmonids and more specifically the Maws where the one of the Skidmarks mounted a fish head-like attachment to the front of their bike. Like the Maws the Skid marks dive into ink and open up the fish jaws and try to bite the player.
- The origin of the Skidmarks is somewhat of a mystery. It is a mystery how they obtained the technology of the Trail Hogs to build a bike like theirs. It could be by simple observation or perhaps by blueprints that may have been dropped by Frankus according the Squid Research Labs. They may have also began in order to challenge the Trail Hogs for supremacy of the Inkopolis.
- Unlike many opponents, if not all these cyclists have the ability to fight directly on walls. In fact they ride their bikes up and down walls. It is believed that the winch of their bikes may allow them to climb up and down walls effectively. Even Judd of impressed how a rider can fight from the walls and keep their bikes balanced.
- They are known to pass through main streets in the city throw pies at random people. They are not using pie launchers but actual food pies. They favorite being blueberry pies.
- It is not known who their leader is but apparently he is very powerful boasting the most powerful weapon ever seen which has the ability to fire projectiles in many different directions at once. During the attack know as the Fury of the Clowns he will attack from high atop a building or ship and throw eggs, pies, osage oranges, and rockets in rapid fire which cover every corner of the city apparently having no limit to their distance. The sky also turns pink-orange for some reason resembling dusk. "Whoever is attacking would even make the Salmonids and Octarians run! I'm getting the heck back into my shop!", cries Bisk as a pie just misses him as he closes the door.