Whats your highest drop?

I have landed a bit under 2 meters.

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landed: 6' 5"

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on trials uni 5 feet on muni 6.5 feet

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Landed: 12 feet
Attempted: 12 feet
Chickened out: 15 feet

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I can do at least 12".

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Catboy said:

*Landed: 12 feet
Attempted: 12 feet
Chickened out: 15 feet *

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as of now 4 ft. however i have dont want to go bigger until i have a uni
that can take it; my friend did and it bent his cranks badly. i dont
know how upgrade my tire and rime, because (according to a thread i
started a few weeks ago) the monty rims dont come with spokes. strange.

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Highest attempted: about six inches.
Highest landed: about six inches.

I consider big drops to be a waste of time, and unnecessarily damaging
to my unicycle.

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jsm said:

*Highest attempted: about six inches.
Highest landed: about six inches.

I consider big drops to be a waste of time, and unnecessarily damaging
to my unicycle. *

ahhhh, freestyle geek! (just kidding) 😄 😄 😄

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jsm said:

*I consider big drops to be a waste of time, and unnecessarily
damaging to my unicycle. *

Very true, anyone can do big drops with just a little practice. I
stopped because im sick of breaking parts, and only drop when I find one
in a line. I used to go out searching for things to drop off of.

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chosen said:

*the monty rims dont come with spokes. strange. *

Well duh. It's not strange at all. No rims come with spokes. If you're
waiting to find a rim that comes with spokes, I'm afraid to say you'll
never be getting a new rim.

I've done 9-10' on a muni with an excellent rollout at the bottom to
make it feel small. I never do drops bigger than about 18", though,
unless they're in context of a trials or muni line or look fun, which is
rare in an urban setting.

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Highest attempted and landed with trials uni: Loading dock 3+ feet onto
flat. Didn't measure, didn't like the landing. I'm sticking to picnic
table drops now. They're much softer and consistent landings.

Highest attempted drop off of a unicycle: 9 1/2 foot giraffe - 6 1/2
foot drop from pedal height to ground. This was an unsuccessful UPD and
didn't walk for weeks.:o

Big drops aren't a waste of time, I can watch them all day long.

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i can do about 9' to flat...

ive tried a 12ft halfpipe... that didnt go too well... but ill try again
some day.

and excellent rollouts are cool...

i suggest crankflipping big drops....

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dont belive it. *

Are you saying you don't believe it, or are you recommending that we
don't believe it? 😕

What may be missing here is a description of the landing surface. Flat,
sloped (hopefully), concrete, pine needles, dumpster full of garbage, 6'
deep pile of leaves, etc. The landing surface makes a big difference in
what can be a "survivable" landing.

So what do you say, Catboy?

I've seen Ryan Atkins do at least 10' to flat sand, but I don't think he
rode away.

Me:

- I chickened out at 20', and again at 15. 🙂

- In 1982 I dropped about 4' from a stage, in front of an audience, with
a follow-spot blinding me. I bent my crank, but somehow managed to stay
on the uni. I avoided large drops after that due to the unicycles' not
being able to handle it.

- I have UPD'd from a 10' giraffe to flat cement. I don't recommend
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johnfoss said:

*So what do you say, Catboy?

I've seen Ryan Atkins do at least 10' to flat sand, but I don't think
he rode away. *

It was pretty soft dirt with a small slope of a landing zone, off of a
sloped shed, I had a good half rev of roll out, and tons of landing
space. Took me two tries of screwing up to figure out it was no
different than a 7 or 8 foot drop as far as landing goes. I used to be
really into just finding things, clibing up them and dropping off. And
now, that's probably the thing I'm best at, as far as trials goes. I did
a 7 or 8 foot rolling launch/drop a while agon on a nearby motox/quad
trail, and it sucked when I(as usual) got a faceful of dirt.

As for now, Ive almost stopped dropping(as mentioned before, and have
been concentrating more on hops and gaps, because what good is a drop if
you can't pedalgrab up to it.

I too saw Ryan do that drop at CMW off the rock climbing wall, it seemed
he din't rollout alot, which was why he bent the cranks/and hub he was
using(Swallis? with Kookas). But then again, when you can do trials like
he can, who needs to drop?

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Catboy said:

*I too saw Ryan do that drop at CMW off the rock climbing wall, it
seemed he din't rollout alot, which was why he bent the cranks/and hub
he was using(Swallis? with Kookas). But then again, when you can do
trials like he can, who needs to drop? *

Ryan was riding Harper's Steve Howard muni with a hub that Steve Howard
made. The goal was to find out how much abuse the hub could take and
what would happen when it fails (will it twist, will it crack, will it
snap, will the cranks hold, etc.). The test by Ryan was successful in
damaging the hub and that was the goal. The hub twisted but didn't
break.

Harper was unable to bend or break the hub himself. He'd been jumping
off of things about 4 feet or so high and landing like a ton of bricks
like he normally does. That wasn't enough to do it so he went looking
for Ryan. You'll notice that he waited until that end of the last day
before letting Ryan have a go at it.

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doesnt Kris hold the record for 15 feet

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I can land about 6' consistantly - easily. Haven't tried bigger, don't
really want to screw up my uni any more than it is. I try to avoid
bigger then 5' now too.

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