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That's a great idea, Brian!

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Brian MacKenzie said:

I think a cool event for unicycle conventions etc would be a hurdling
event.

take your typical race track length, and add in hurdles to it, perhaps
a foot or so high, so they could still be taken at speed

That'd be a swell event

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that's about one of the coolest ideas ever. I'd try to participate.

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Be great for the people that can jump at any pedal setting, enstead of
having to ahve ther dominate fowards. Then it would really be flying,
just a straight race, no stopping, jump to the finish line =p

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Jerrick said:

Be great for the people that can jump at any pedal setting

You could set it up so that the hurdels would come up when your pedals
are level. as long as everyone used the same size wheel.

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By putting the slightest of an angle when you are approaching the
hurdle, you would be able to hit it when your cranks were set
properly.

and at only 12" or so height, you wouldn't neccessarily have to have
the cranks set up exactly 'properly' anyways

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Brian MacKenzie said:

By putting the slightest of an angle when you are approaching the
hurdle, you would be able to hit it when your cranks were set
properly.

and at only 12" or so height, you wouldn't neccessarily have to have
the cranks set up exactly 'properly' anyways

A -hurdle- would have to involve a significant jump at regular
intervals, not placed for the convenience of a given wheel size. This
would most closely mimic track hurdles in both form and intent. It
would be up to the rider to adapt to the course.

Rolling over carefully angled bumps would not be a hurdle, but some
other interesting race. Perhaps part of a steeplechase? 🙂

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U-Turn said:

A -hurdle- would have to involve a significant jump at regular
intervals, not placed for the convenience of a given wheel size. This
would most closely mimic track hurdles in both form and intent. It
would be up to the rider to adapt to the course.

Rolling over carefully angled bumps would not be a hurdle, but some
other interesting race. Perhaps part of a steeplechase? 🙂

I meant an angle on your wheel as you ride towards the hurdle. You
couldn't 'easily' roll over a 12" obstacle, and even if you manged to,
it would be way slower than the people who are hopping over them.

Real life hurdles are not too tall to jump over pretty easily, but when
there's so many in a row it gets hard fast. I'm not sure what a good
interval would be for hurdle placement, but there would be lots I would
imagine. And with the hurdle short enough, you could get over them
without proper crank placement, but you would also be hitting them at a
pretty fast pace.

Keeping them low enough that people could hop over with relative ease
(for the first hurdles) would allow this to be a great , fast paced
spectator event

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I think the other way of racing this would be to just side hop the
entire race, jump the hurdle do a big gap as fast as possible do a
hurdle etc. I also think that this could get very tiring. Still I would
love to do a race like that it would be a ton of fun but the rolling
hop version qould be very difficult.

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Yeah this idea sounds sweet! i would defently give it a try 🙂

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It's a great method for people to practice their rolling hop technique!
Everyone can set something simple up right outside their house to
practice with.
Scatter the obstacles or leave them in a straight line.

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To get around the pedal position problem, use the race lanes only until
the first hurdle. After the first hurdle is cleared we can weave
around, cut each other off, and set up for the remainder of the hurdles
as we see fit.

That race would be much more interesting.

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I see the pedal position thing not as a problem, but a challenge for the
racer. In track hurdles, foot and leg placement, number and length of
steps, etc. is a critical part of training and racing. For the
deepest, most long-lasting event, I would think that a unicycle hurdles
event should evoke the same behavior.

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lmao, why not go 1 step further and convert a dog course for unicycling.

Ring of fire, tunnels, weaving etc.... 😄

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