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Rolling Hop vs. SIF Sidehop
As a side note, measuring hops without carrying a yardstick around is really a crapshoot, so I noticed the top of the decal on my KH Muni is at 20" and can gauge pretty accurately from there. On my trials rig I can just gauge it off the 20" tire. Measuring like this is helpful sometimes, though at other times you might try and break your old record if you don't know the exact heigth, which may otherwise psyche you out. JL -- vivalargo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vivalargo's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5625 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/34032 |
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just to throw in a random angle on this...i do my sidehops seat in (my SiF hops feel really uncontrolled) and today i managed to clear 65cm, although i know eventually i will have to turn to SiF to get higher, does anyone know what the highest seat in sidehop is? i'd be interested to know how far it has been taken. i do prefer rolling hops, but my sidehops are now dead even with my rolling hops... -- unicyclistjoe - NZ's 2nd Best Trials Unicyclist Well a MOPED or whatever you call it...yeah good one security http://gallery.unicyclist.com/joesphotos ------------------------------------------------------------------------ unicyclistjoe's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6856 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/34032 |
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Mike Middleton has landed a seat in sidehop artound 24", but it was a long time ago. Eric (Mango) seems able to do over 2' seat in. As for SIF rolling hops, I find that my seat holding arm is seriously jerked during the hop, but I seem to have more potential for pike and lift when I'm seat out rolling hopping. I've only spent about an hour of my entire riding carreer practicing these moves, yet I've landed SIF rolling hops of about 26", while my straight rolliung hop record is about 32.5". Ryan Atkins did a 32+" rolling hop SIF onto a picnic table at CMW. Vivalgro: That's exactly how I measure my hops when I don't have a measuring tape and desperately want to know the height. My seat clamp is about 26". My seat is about 35 or 36". My seatpost has a scratch on it that's about 30". These are helpful but aren't ver accurate at all. -- gerblefranklin - Trials Unicyclist Don't you think it's a cruel irony that acting like a G.I. Joe in the army can get you a Medal, while playing with one can get you thrown out? http://gallery.unicyclist.com/Trials-Muni "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful. They will stop at nothing to hurt us and our people, and nethier will we"-Dubya Vote Kerry. Yeah, they both suck, but Kerry sucks less. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerblefranklin's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4295 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/34032 |
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gerblefranklin wrote: *Mike Middleton has landed a seat in sidehop artound 24", but it was a long time ago. Eric (Mango) seems able to do over 2' seat in.* There you go Joe, perhaps you have the NEW WORLD RECORD in seat in side hops? 65cm = over 2ft -- pete66 - Level 4 Unicyclist ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pete66's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4812 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/34032 |
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lol yea maybe pete... -- unicyclistjoe - NZ's 2nd Best Trials Unicyclist Well a MOPED or whatever you call it...yeah good one security http://gallery.unicyclist.com/joesphotos ------------------------------------------------------------------------ unicyclistjoe's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6856 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/34032 |
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onetrack wrote: * I am straying from the topic a little bit, but it seems like we are slowly but surely catching up to bike trials records. Does anyone know what the bike sidehop record is? last I heard, it was like 110cm or something like that. mike * Bike trials riders are WAY ahead of unicyclists for sidehops and it will likely remain that way due to the much better mechanical advantage they have (although it would be great to prove this wrong...). However, one sole consolation is that the pioneering biketrials rider Ot Pi held the world biketrials sidehop record for a long time, at 90cm. This stood officially (although was broken unofficially long before) until the late 1990's. At least we have caught up to that, anyway. Kris Holm. -- danger_uni - Kris Holm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danger_uni's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/21 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/34032 |
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danger_uni wrote: * Bike trials riders are WAY ahead of unicyclists for sidehops and it will likely remain that way due to the much better mechanical advantage they have (although it would be great to prove this wrong...). However, one sole consolation is that the pioneering biketrials rider Ot Pi held the world biketrials sidehop record for a long time, at 90cm. This stood officially (although was broken unofficially long before) until the late 1990's. At least we have caught up to that, anyway. Kris Holm. * Maybe you guys are hitting that same wall.....maybe theres some undiscovered technique that will give us those huge hieghts. I don't think we'll catch up, but it's nice to see we've made so much progress in, what, 5 years? -- TheObieOne3226 - Judge me by my size, do you? [image: http://img54.exs.cx/img54/4743/yodaweedresize.jpg] http://gallery.unicyclist.com/SWAT singlewheeledattackteam.1hwy.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheObieOne3226's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4851 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/34032 |
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