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  1. 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???

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  2. 65cm and 180cm.

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  3. i suck at high side hops but: 24 inches up and about 4.5 feet laterally.

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  4. Sweet idea, if you can't do it someone must be able to.

    71 cm (28" or 2'4"😉 and 155 cm (61" or 5'1"😉

    My rolling hop was just getting good again when I busted my uni. The gap
    was rolling at TOque over the bar thing. I went out at 150 but later got
    155.

    David

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  5. I can only rolling hop 22-23",havent worked on that much,Gap last time I
    measured(been a while)4 1/2' static seat in forward gap.

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  6. 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.

    Kevin

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  7. Yeah I think we should respect the fact that the thread starter is
    Australian and give all distances in metric. 😉 Metric is clearly far
    superior.

    Andrew

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  8. 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)🙂

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  9. my rolling hop is 84cm, my rolling gap is 250cm...seat in side hop
    around 68cm

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  10. unicyclistjoe said:

    *my rolling hop is 84cm, my rolling gap is 250cm...seat in side hop
    around 68cm *


    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.

    Andrew

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  11. 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.

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  12. For aesthetic purposes I'd probably put the hopping height along the Y
    axis etc.

    Sorry I don't know my best gap but I can vouch that Joe really can do
    massive rolling gaps.

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  13. ur said:

    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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