What you really want is the heaviest unicycle possible! Fill that tyre with Argon! Build that frame from Lead! Hollow tubes? No way! Solid lead bars!
This extra weight in your unicycle allows greater compression of the tyre, giving you an extra ‘push’ when you are starting your hop. I garuntee you*, this will increase your hop height by at least 3 INCHES!!!
-Matt
*I garuntee you that I in no way garuntee the validity of this claim.
Durring the gas sortage in america (either that or a war), all comerical planes were forced to strip the paint off there plains to save on gas.
for real
I could only hop 40cm until I removed the frame and tyre. Now I can hop a whole 3 cm higher! I can’t ride around but you can leave the pedals on so I can pedal grab.
Knowing maestro8 and the nature of this thread, it reminded me of THIS ONE that I started a while ago in JC. It had some fun responses from some thoughtful and clever people. Joona made a post in it that has a particularly appropriate link.
hey… a (moderatelly) original idea that just might work (compared to the other ones in this thread :). as for too much force on the bearing, it’s been done with mountain bikes.
The difference is that the Cannondale Lefty fork has bearings on either side of the hub, while on a unicycle since the hub and spindle are the same thing you could only have a bearing on one side, considerably off center. you would need a whole lot of lateral support or some sort of huge crazy hub to do it. I would put it at not reasonably possible for a useable unicycle.