Taking a unicycle vert??

i dont think the prob lem would be speed but the fact that to balence
you have to keep your center of balence(cob) above the contact point so
if you go up even a moderate vert you head would hit either the
concrete of the vert or you would be put of balence buy your position
in the air

well thats my $0.02 and i could be rong

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if you think about it ... if you have enough speed to catch air and good
balance even for a unicyclist then you will be nearly perpendicular to
the vert face of the ramp

i have thought about this stuff

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skroboskim said:

if you think about it ... if you have enough speed to catch air and good
balance even for a unicyclist then you will be nearly perpendicular to
the vert face of the ramp

i have thought about this stuff

-stephen-

You've thought about it incorrectly, and, you haven't tried it.
Unicycles balance by keeping the rider plumb to gravity. When you're
going up hill at speed, you're not perpendicular to the hill, you're
parallel to a plumb line hung from your helmet (more or less). If you
try going up a vert ramp, you get to the point where you're leaning way
too far forward and there's not enough traction. A number of people
were trying to get up a sloped ramp at Moab, and I don't think anyone
made it, although one or two guys were getting close. On the vert
ramp, no one was close. I don't think it's feasible, except possibly
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If you consider the ramp in the attached picture a vert ramp, then the
answer is yes... I have ridden up ramps like this on my Coker.

At the last Rolling Trials competition, both Brian MacKenzie and I rode
up a ramp similar to the one in the picture on our Cokers and
incredibly enough Frank (hell-on-wheel) made it on his 26" (after many
attempts and a lot of determination) to win the competition!

If your talking about riding a vert ramp like a skateboarder in a
halfpipe, I can't get very high up the wall of most of the vert
halfpipes I've tried (on my Coker of course) and still spin around and
ride back down... but I did manage to get pretty close to the top of
the wall on some mini half-pipes a handful of times. It's a pretty
tricky maneuver (on a Coker, anyway) because it feels like the uni
wants to throw you off if your technique isn't perfect.

The couple of times I pulled it off felt like a fluke... or just luck
after many attempts. I do remember having to really lean forward after
the 180 spin at the top of the ramp and then push down on the pedals as
hard as I could to accelerate the wheel back under me, but I couldn't
succesfully duplicate the maneuver even after I did it. The succesful
times may have had something to do with my pedal position accidentally
winding up in the most optimum position at the top of the ramp, but I
couldn't say for sure.

I remember seeing a video of einradfreak blasting up the sides of a
mini half-pipe that looked like it was fairly vertical at the tops of
the walls and he was spininng 180s at the top and riding back and forth
up the walls of that half pipe like it was nothing!

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What if you tried it on a 20/24 inch geared unicycle??
Then you have the speed and a small wheel to do quick turn at the top.

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On 'Defect' someone (not sure who) manages to get air out of a
quarterpipe on what looks like a 20". It doesn't look like he could of
kept it up in a half pipe...

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The plumb line idea is, fortunatly, wrong. Such a thing would only
happen if you didn't have enough speed. If you had adequate speed, you
would be perpendicular to the ramp, this due to centripetal force.

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The plumb line idea is, fortunatly, wrong. Such a thing would only
happen if you didn't have enough speed. If you had adequate speed, you
would be perpendicular to the ramp, this due to centripetal force.

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ive glided of a monster at sugarloaf in the summer not pretty

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albino_gumby said:

On 'Defect' someone (not sure who) manages to get air out of a
quarterpipe on what looks like a 20". It doesn't look like he could of
kept it up in a half pipe...

I think it was Dan Heaton, he rode up a quarter pipe and 180 in the air
😄

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Erant said:

The plumb line idea is, fortunatly, wrong. Such a thing would only
happen if you didn't have enough speed. If you had adequate speed, you
would be perpendicular to the ramp, this due to centripetal force.

this is what im talking about ... going slow you would have to be
plumb, but at higher speeds would be impossible to remain "plumb"
without doing a faceplant into the vert face...

but I think short cranks would provide enough speed ... im going to try
it on my piece-of-[censored] unicycle

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skroboskim said:

this is what im talking about ... going slow you would have to be plumb,
but at higher speeds would be impossible to remain "plumb" without
doing a faceplant into the vert face...

but I think short cranks would provide enough speed ... im going to try
it on my piece-of-[censored] unicycle

Try to use a big wheel too. Short cranks on a 20" still doesn't get
much speed.

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I think we could just apply the same cure we use for bread, to humans.
just scrape off the cancer with a butter knife, then put jelly on it,
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I've played around with quarter pipes, up to 8 or 10 feet or so. It's
not as feasable on a uni as I would like to think, I tried a big half
pipe, but it wasn't that great. I didn't drop in though.

BC wheel might have more luck if people get good enough because you can
drop in and let gravity do the work a little more. Who knows? The
sport... both of them, are still progressing. Maybe vert is just a
little ways down the road.

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Just incase people didnt know, a *vert ramp must be vertical *at the top
of the slope for it to be called a vert ramp. The smallest vert ramps
are generally around 8-9 feet or so and go up in size from there.

It is called a mini-ramp when the top of the *ramp is not vertical*.
Mini ramps are usually 6 feet and under.

I doubt that anyone would be able to do much in a vert ramp, but alot
of stuff is possible on a mini-ramp.

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albino_gumby said:

On 'Defect' someone (not sure who) manages to get air out of a
quarterpipe on what looks like a 20".

Dan Heaton?

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um, it's very possible. if you want to know what it looks like, check
out the video in my gallery. i'ld link it, but i don't know how. i
managed a few runs on the halfpipe, and it would have looked cooler on
video, but my cameraman was/is retarded. it's cool to do, but it
doesn't look as cool as doing it on a bike. oh, at the time i did the
halfpipe, i couldn't unispin, but i had about 2 years of flat land,
no-tricking riding. in fact, even my cameraman was able to drop in on
it and ride a bit (not as high on the banks) and he couldn't even free
mount at the time. dropping in is super fun, but plan on falling the
first few times because (you can't see this in the vid cause of the
angles) when you exit the lip on the drop your wheel doesn't make
contact untill the ramp starts to roll into the flat part. i'm gonna
try to start backwards and 180 unispin to begin the run. that would
look tight. anyway, hope i was able to help you and definatly check
out my video, it might help you know what to expect as vert uni is
kindof an abstract concept still.

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half pipe riding is very possible on a 20" even with not short cranks.
if you want to know what it looks like, check out the video in my
gallery. i'ld link it, but i don't know how. i managed a few runs on
the halfpipe, and it would have looked cooler on video, but my
cameraman was/is retarded. it's cool to do, but it doesn't look as
cool as doing it on a bike. oh, at the time i did the halfpipe, i
couldn't unispin, but i had about 2 years of flat land, no-tricking
riding. in fact, even my cameraman was able to drop in on it and ride
a bit (not as high on the banks) and he couldn't even free mount at the
time. dropping in is super fun, but plan on falling the first few
times because (you can't see this in the vid cause of the angles) when
you exit the lip on the drop your wheel doesn't make contact untill the
ramp starts to roll into the flat part. i'm gonna try to start
backwards and 180 unispin to begin the run. that would look tight.
anyway, hope i was able to help you and definatly check out my video,
it might help you know what to expect as vert uni is kindof an abstract
concept still.

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http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/457850/

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0nly0newheel said:

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/457850/

PHOTOSHOP GAYNESS!!
dude
it took me 2 seconds to figure out that that was photoshopped
his hand has black around it and he has no pedal 🙁 sorry better luck
next time

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