I was thinking that it would be interesting to graph a unicyclist’s maximum hop height (vertical) and a unicyclist’s maximum gap length (horizontal). I’m estimating that the gap will be roughly 2.5-3 times larger than the hop.
N.B. I know I’ll get a heap of arguments from ppl about rolling and side hops, but I say whatever goes, goes. Also, I know that ppl will argue about official testing, hopping over something as opposed to onto something etc… (everyone knows the kinds of arguments I mean).
So…
As I said, any kind of hop goes (just to get a rough graph anyway).
The hop height is onto something, and is of course going to be less accurate than the max gap length as it is less scary doing a gap than it is a hop, so I guess that this should be taken into account in the graph.
Also, I wouldn’t know how to do this graph, or where to get the data from, I guess that some online graph book thing could be set up where people submit data into it, where parameters are set so that stupid values are excluded
(e.g.
if
gap > 4 X hop
then
the person is either lying, they can’t hop for nuts or they are just beginning in which case another parameter could be put in to allow hops of under say 5cm to have larger gaps or something like that.)
Anyway, I thought it would be interesting just to say how it worked out. If you think it’s rubbish, then say so, and I think it is a bit of a waste of time, but still, it would be interesting, don’t you agree???
My data: Highest hop ~34", both rolliung and side. I might’ve gotten higher, but i don’t measure many ledges i run into now. My longest static gap is around 5.5-6’ (66-72"). I don’t know about rolling gaps, but I know I get a bunch farther on rolling gaps on my 24" cruiser.
I completely disagree about gaps being less scary than hops. ON a sidehop or even a rolling hop, I have a whole bunch of control over the uni the whole time, and landing the hop is not high impact or rough. On long gaps I regularly hit my rim on the ledge, so I already have to deal with equip. failure. Then include the problems with the seat mashing my chest, along with the penalty to my shins if I miss the gap. All in all, long gaps for me are far scarier and higher stakes.
Hey, If you’re going to do this, you will have to convert all the data you get from people into a common unit, probably centimeters. Then, just have a 2 axis graph, and have the x-axis being one variable, and the y-axis being the other. Graphing it will provide a visual relationship between them, and you can go from there.
My hopping and gapping abilities are misiscule. The metric standard is mm not cm, so even my effort could be measured. I keep trying though, so one day i will be 10mm (1cm)
Wow, what about your static gap? that 2.5m rolling gap is huge! What’s the world record these days? I remember not long ago when it was 2.45m by Jacinto.
Well, with the current lot of data, the graph looks really weird (see attached graph and data). I added my own 77.5cm rolling hop and 200cm rolling gap. Thanks tugboat for telling me how to do the graph. I kinda guessed at this but i thought on a bigger scale website input kinda thing i wouldn’t be able to program it, that was more the thing i was hoping for. But here is the graph anyway.
>Well, with the current lot of data, the graph looks really weird
The way you plotted it, you emphasise every little deviation. I’d say,
loose the curve (via rightclick on a datapoint - Format Data Series -
Patterns - Line “none”), then another rightclick, Add Trendline,
Linear.
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Metric is clearly far superior.
