Unicycle world records

i wonder whats the one for the biggest tire?

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you mean...most unicyclists ridding at once?i dont know.It seems like
there would have been.probaly.

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no the unicycle with the biggest tire

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http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/unique.html 73 inches, if this is what
you mean.

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im gonna make a bigger one

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Does anyone know the record for the widest unicycle tire?

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These are all the world records I could find, according to Guinness.

Longest Backward ride: 68 mi. by Steve Gordon.

Longest unicycle journey: 3,876.1 mi. in 51 days 23 hours 25 min. by
Hanspeter Beck.

Most Skips in one minute: 168 by Peter Rosendahl.

Fastest sprint: 100 meters in 12.11 seconds

Fastest journey: 100 miles in 6 hours 44 min. 21.84 seconds by Takayuki
Koike.

Tallest unicycle: 101ft. 9in. by Steve McPeak

Smallest unicycle: 8 in. with a wheel diameter of 0.71inches by Peter
Rosendahl

This is all I could find throughout two of the World books of
records any one else now any post them.
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caw89 said:

*Longest unicycle journey: 3,876.1 mi. in 51 days 23 hours 25 min. by
Hanspeter Beck.*

This one has been bested by Lars Clausen at over 9000 miles. He also did
a 24 hour record of 202 point something miles.

Quoted message said:

*Tallest unicycle: 101ft. 9in. by Steve McPeak*

This one has been bested by Sem Abrahams at about 114', with no crane
holding him up while he rode.

The Guinness company has far more records than what they can fit into
their book. They put in and take out at random from year to year. Plus
we have even more records of our own.

The original post said something that sounded roughly like a record of
100 people riding at one time. Nonsense. We had over a thousand at
Unicon XII. Maybe not all in the same place at the same time, riding,
but there were a way lot of riders.

At Unicon VI in 1992, we did a unicycle chain, with 191 people holding
hands while riding. at Unicon X in China we had approximately twice that
number in Tiannanmen Square, in a less organized shape, and nobody got
an exact count. But it was a lot!

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uni78 said:

According to the must recent world record book the must unicycle that
have rode at the same time is 100. Hasn't many more ride at the same
time?

Are you talking about the Guinness? Any record stated there has the
implicit conditions that they know of it, and that they recognise it.
I thought that during recent Unicons (such as Bejing and Tokyo) more
that 100 unicyclists would have been riding together. But I'm not
sure, maybe someone can confirm.

But also Guinness now recognise a new world record, as in the most
recent issue of the German juggling magazine Kaskade I read this (and
I hope they don't mind me copying this):

UNICYCLING WORLD RECORD

Europe's biggest children's and youth circus, Circus Cabuwazi of
Berlin, have set a new unicycling world record. On 5 June 2004, to
frenetic applause, 127 kids rode across the finishing line and into
the Guinness Book of Records. Never before have so many people ridden
on one wheel together. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Circus
Cabuwazi had invited all the children in Berlin to help them set the
record, which involved riding from the yard to the big top, a distance
of 500 metres, without getting off. 144 kids from all over the city
took part, including representatives from partner circuses like
Juxirkus, the ufaKindercircus and many more.
www.cabuzawi.de

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uni78 said:

Does anyone know the record for the widest unicycle tire?

Just a week ago or so, there was a picture on this very forum with a
tyre that looked about 12" wide. W - i - d - e !

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Klaas Bil said:

*127 kids rode across the finishing line and into the Guinness Book of
Records. Never before have so many people ridden on one wheel
together. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Circus Cabuwazi had
invited all the children in Berlin to help them set the record, which
involved riding from the yard to the big top, a distance of 500
metres, without getting off. 144 kids from all over the city took
part... *

At first glance, the quantity of riders is kind of lame compared with
things we've done at Unicons (and elsewhere). But that group gets (and
deserves) the credit for doing the Guinness legwork. It's a great way to
promote your school and/or activities.

None of the big group riding things I described involved riding long
distances. That record is based on the # of kids to complete the *half a
kilometer* without falling off. 127 out of 144 is very impressive for a
youth circus group.

OTHER LARGE GROUPS:
Sammy Hellwig used to do "unicycle chains" with his group in Cologne,
Germany. I don't remember what his biggest number was (this was about 10
years ago); somewhere over 200. Each would ride through a decorated gate
that was set up for the event.

The one at Unicon VI (191 riders) was everyone holding hands, riding
from one side of a road to the other. This was pretty impressive in that
it only took two tries. That many riders took up about 400m of road!

At Unicon IX in Germany we had somewhere over 300 riders, and attempted
to do another hand-holding chain. We had the riding talent, but not
enough room to line everyone up succesfully. We had to ride in-line,
which is a lot harder to coordinate.

The thing in China in 2000 was just a huge mass of riders holding hands,
more or less in a stillstand. No riding, but everyone was up for a long
period of time; long enough for me to circle the whole thing with a
video camera. I've got to do something with that tape someday...
🙄

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caw89 said:

*These are all the world records I could find, according to
Guinness.
Most Skips in one minute: 168 by Peter Rosendahl.
---------------------------------------------Cody *

This one has been broken by several TCUC people. Don't remember the
exact numbers or people but think Amy Shields holds the womens record of
over 200 skips and Ryan Woessner tied with someone else I think at 208
or 209? Correct me if you know.

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Those were all the records I could find according to the Guinness books
2000 and 2001 I don't have the later books, I didn't check any sights I
got all my info from Guinness.

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Understandable. Thanks for the "old" info anyways.

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Hi,

on which unicycle was the 100m record from Peter Rosendahl??

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Quoted message said:

This one has been broken by several TCUC people. Don't remember the
exact numbers or people but think Amy Shields holds the womens record
of over 200 skips and Ryan Woessner tied with someone else I think at
208 or 209? Correct me if you know.

Actually Amy Shields is in the latest Guiness Book of World Records for
this. She got something like 215 in one minute.

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johnfoss said:

The one at Unicon VI (191 riders) was everyone holding hands, riding
from one side of a road to the other. This was pretty impressive in that
it only took two tries. That many riders took up about 400m of road!

So each rider took an average of 'about' 2.09 m which must be another
record holding hands. Sorry, cannot resist this sort of thing.
Excellent comments/additions John.

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Lutz said:

*on which unicycle was the 100m record from Peter Rosendahl??*

A plain old Miyata 24" Deluxe. Miyata tire and the classic IDOL 125mm
cranks that came with it. Nothing special, other than the rider.

Peter told me they went to great effort to help ensure he could better
the record for the promotional event for which he was hired. This was
the opening of the Wet 'N Wild water park in Las Vegas, in 1992 or so.
He told me he worked with a personal trainer (a regular one, I assume,
not a unicycle specialist), watched videos of his riding, did specific
workouts and even ate a special diet to prepare him for the burst of
speed.

Riders in Japan may have done similar or faster times, but it's hard to
tell from this side of the language barrier, because they also do races
in Japan for 24" wheels with unlimited crank length. It has to be 125mm
or longer to fit regular IUF track regulations.

So does Guinness care about IUF regulations? Apparently they do. There
have been communications from the Guinness company that "governing
bodies" of unicycling should recognize certain types of unicycle
records, which makes life easier for them, and also gives us a little
more input on the process!

So far all three holders of the Guinness 100m record used race-legal
unicycles:
- Floyd Crandall, 1980, 14.89 sec. on Schwinn with 140mm (5.5"😉 cranks
- John Foss, 1987, 13.71 sec. on Miyata with 125mm cranks
- Peter Rosendahl, 1992(?), 12.11 sec. on Miyata with 125mm cranks

Many people have done 100m sprints faster than those first two times.
But only those three were recognized by Guinness. For 100m records, you
generally want an electronic timing system, not hand-held stopwatches.

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tuna6869 said:

*

Don't remember the exact numbers or people but think Amy Shields holds
the womens record of over 200 skips and Ryan Woessner tied with
someone else I think at 208 or 209? *

What are skips?I cant figure it out.

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