hoping help

I dont know how i can help you,i can only rolling hop 18
inches🙄

I cant sif hop very well yet,im working on it.

you should lower tire pressure for prehop,Abuot 35 psi's(?)or so.

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forrestunifreak said:

*I dont know how i can help you,i can only rolling hop 18
inches🙄

I cant sif hop very well yet,im working on it.

you should lower tire pressure for prehop,Abuot 35 psi's(?)or so. *

35 seems like a lot to me. I have mine set at 24ish. But I'm not very
good, I can only do about 20 inch hops....

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thats why i said...

forrestunifreak said:

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James_Potter said:

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35 seems like a lot to me. I have mine set at 24ish. But I'm not very
good, I can only do about 20 inch hops.... *

Wow, funny, 24 seems kinda high for me, too. I ride about 20-23. I can
do about 31.5", but I don't think that's really at all related to my
tire pressure. You should use whatever feels good and works. Sometimes
what feels good for high hops is horrible for stuff like rail gaps and
stuff that's precise, so often lots of riders will sacrifice an inch or
two of height for a better performance in the precise lines. Often you
get used to whatever you use. Still, though, unless you don't like your
tire pressure, it's fine for you.

As for whether you want to really want to increase your hopping height,
25" sconsistantly with no prehop is plenty for almost all trials. Over
that, most riders just pedalgrab, even if they can air that high (you'll
never see Kris Holm or Ryan Atkins air onto a 34" 6x8 post. They *can*
hop that heigh, but it's just easier, safer, and more surefire to
pedalgrab). In a precise situation, often about 26-27" is at or beyond
the edge of my comfort envelope for going rubber-to-rubber hops.

I think the best thing is to simply practice hopping, and maybe do a bit
of prehop practice. I incresed my record by about 1.5" with a prehop,
and 1.5-2" without in one day simply by practicing prehops. I figure
you're doing phenominally as it is, though. I was riding for over 2
years before I landed my first 20" hop, and I landed my first measured
24" hop only the day before my 15th b-day. Just practice, since you're
still in the range where an improved technique will get better results.
You'll notice eventually that past a certain height your strength is a
bigger limiting factor than techniue, but you're not there yet. Riders
like Ryan Atkins are pretty much at the point where they can hop as
high, if not higher on a unicycle than they can on their feet. When you
reach that you know it's time to start building more muscle. For most
riders that comes somewhere around 30".

Just remember, there's no substitute for practice. You can get the best
tips there are on hopping and ride a 10lb unicycle, but it still won't
add more height to you hop than a good week or two of practice (not to
say that you'll gain 5" of height in 1-2 weeks. It took me about 7
months of on-off practice to get from 24" to 31.5", with progress coming
in fits and starts).

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Are you guys comparing tire pressure without talking about how much you
weigh, or what your tire width is? Sheesh.

For advice on improving technique that already sounds pretty good,
upload some video clips if you can.

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i have a kh 20

and tire psi is arownd 15

if that helps

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I think 15 is definitely too low, you shouldn't ever go under 20.

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Wow, unless you weigh around 70 or 80 lbs, you definitely need to raise
your tire pressure. Basically, if you can bottom out your rim while
hopping, the pressure is too low.

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well i way 90-100 depending when i have my trials in servise

my gauge might be wrong though

anybody got any thing on uw's?

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