Your Alex DX32 rim broke from a 7" drop? Thats weird, cause I did plenty of those, and 8 footers, and my rim is still fine.
My biggest are around 8 feet or something bigger. I havent done too many drops lately so I havent been around those spots. Ill ahve to measure them again.
Ill need to get a new rim though. The drilled KH rim doesnt handle as well as the Alex DX32 rim did.
Most likely it was a dead flat drop that crushed Unidudedx’s rim; the worst kind for big drops! I think I’ve just been lucky because I have that LM rim, and I weigh only 142 lbs.
Luckily the vast majority of my big drops are either to a sloped landing area, or rolling hops, like that 8 set, where I can easily roll out with all the forward momentum, which distributes the wheel stress effectively.
Yeah, there is only one drop where I have troubles rolling out, which is good for the KH.
The DX though, I put that through all my learning, and when I wasnt good at rolling out yet, and so all my drops where to flat. I do know I kept the spokes tensioned as well as I could after every ride, so that might have something to do with it.
Ten and a half to flat slickrock.
yea do you not remeber that thread???
ill link it…I broke my rim! ???
I’m going for a 12 foot drop with plenty of rollout, (off the roof of a park building) and I’ll have a video of it…as usual. 
Video link please. 
(Did you have a tape measure with you at the time to measure it? Just curious. 
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defect had a 10 footer im pretty sure.
3’ to flat concrete, and that was on my old beginner $100 uni and amazingly, it didn’t break! I had only been riding 3 months at the time and I was so amazed at myself.
I haven’t really bothered with drops lately, too much risk of hurting myself and I’ve kinda been working on more “skillful” things :P. Although if I’m feeling crazy sometime I think I could probably land 4’
My biggest is 8 foot.Its the drop in my avatar but i bailed and landed flat on my front.The vid is called my awesome morning,click on my videos in my signature.For some reason i cant go on youtube so i cant post the link
i got your back padst3r
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpLvfCVgeXA
haha:p
But how much cm is 1feet?
uhm
kh rim might as well be paper, ok, like 5 ppl have broken it…
i did a 14 foot drop down the side of a sand dune. (got stuck in the sand, doesn’t really count, but it was really fun!)
9 foot to grass
and idk how high i got when i jumped my truck, but it was up there.
the rim survived all of that. too bad a 4 stair took it out…
yoggi tried a 14 footer and couldn’t get it… KH and a few others did 12’s, as far as i know thats the record.
Re: highest drop
Check out this video of Yoggi dropping 4.2 metres (measured to the top
of the lorry tyre he was landing on). It was at Unicon Tokyo, and he
tried about five times but never quite landed it. But just for
trying, he has balls of chrome molybdenum alloy!
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> > the rim survived all of that. too bad a 4 stair took it out…
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> Haha, you’re still saying the 4 stair broke it? You’ve just said it,
> you jumped over a truck before doing that 4 set…Come on, look at what
> you do on your uni, and how you do it, any rim would have broke.
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Re: highest drop
Check out this video of Yoggi dropping 3.8 metres (measured to the top
of the lorry tyre he was landing on). It was at Unicon Tokyo, and he
tried about five times but never quite landed it. But just for
trying, he has balls of chrome molybdenum alloy!
Its 244cm or 2.44m
Wow, that makes me over 14 m tall.
Actually, it’s 30.5 cm to a foot.
lol i read it wrong.I meant my drop was 244cm
There’s a clip of Kris Holm landing a 14 foot drop on Into the Thunder Dragon. It looks pretty darned stupid to me.
Joe