WE SHOULD HAVE EXACT AND UP TO DATE WORLD UNICYCLING RECORDS SOMEWHERE. THERE IS SOME HERE (http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/records/
WE SHOULD HAVE SOME ON http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Unicyclopedia
WHERE YOU CAN UPDATE THEM AS SOON AS YOU EXCEDE THEM
would this be possible???
there is much more to record keeping than having a “high score” page somewhere on the Internet. you have to carefully consider how a record is made, who is going to measure it and who will verify the measurement.
the IUF has put a lot of energy into these considerations; you can find their methodology in the rule book. Guinness has their own methods for verifying world records. i’m sure there are many others… this will make it difficult to collect differently established records and throw them all on the same page… can they even compare?
simply throwing numbers up onto a page will start all sorts of debates about which records are real and which weren’t verified correctly and which didn’t even happen at all. even the IUF page admits that some of their posted records are false… what good will a page of faulty records do for the unicycling community?
We have a page with the newest records, dont know if there all official but we only put records which cope with the IUF rules on it.
http://www.einradfahren.de/index.php?module=mod_content&action=article&title=Rekorde&menu_id=58
Very impressive if done on a 28":
42.195 km auf 28" 1:50:57 Patrick Schmid Schweiz Düsseldorf 2005
Avg Speed 23km/hr.
Can anyone tell us what crank length he was using?
Patrick used my 29" (Big Apple 28" x 2.35") with 114mm cranks.
He won this Marathon with the before mentioned time (there were no Cokers allowed though).
That’s insano fast on a 29er, he must be a well good rider. I’ve only ever managed to average 13mph for 8 miles on a 29er, and I was knackered after riding that fast for 8 miles, for a proper marathon that’s just mental.
Are there unicon records? Presumably they’d all be held under similar conditions, so are guaranteed to be comparable?
Just looked at that page. I’ve heard various people talk bigly about having a go at the 100 mile record and the hour records, even on a coker the current 100 mile record is full on fast like, the average speed on it must be pretty close to the hour record speed.
Joe