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OK.... me and my brother have a debate going on about the fastest
speed.. he says it's 18 MPH and i say it's 30 MPH can anyone help me
out?


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What's the world record for highest speed on a unicycle w/o gliding or
coasting? 30mph seems pretty fast.


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Anyone know the fastest speed of someone coasting?

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You would reach "terminal velocity" at around 120 MPH. But I assume you
mean riding ON the earth and not TOWARDS it.


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Memphis Mud wrote:
*You would reach "terminal velocity" at around 120 MPH.*
Unless you're tracking head down with arms tucked back. Terminal
velocity increases to near 200 mph in this streamlined position.


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While we're on this topic, I remember someone saying that their personal
top speed on a Coker was something like 15 MPH. That seems pretty slow,
especially when I've gotten to 14 mph on my 24" (and offroad to boot!)


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If you hit 120mph higher in the atmosphere you might go a bit faster
before you hit terminal velocity because of the lowered air pressure.


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nathan wrote:
*The highest speed I've heard of was between 29 and 30 mph by
Christian. If I hadn't seen him ride I wouldn't think that's possible,
given how fast and dangerous 20mph feels to me. Anyway, MANY people
have gone well over 18mph.
*


Christian is the man, he is certainly fast! I went for a little ride
him at eurocycle. It was fantastic, we sort of cruise at the same
speed.... it would be the one time I could not find my speedo but
Christain was saying it was around 30 kph that we found our comfortable
speed at. Faster than I thought it would be, but cool! isn't that
somewhere around 18mph.
As for my top speed, I have done 24mph but do not like going above
20mph... it scares me.

Roger


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What do you have your cyclometer calibration set to?

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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:01:15 -0500, Ken Fuchs
wrote:

To calculate wheel size, one must ride a carefully measured one turn of
the wheel or several turns / number of turns. Measuring my wheel
without riding resulted in a circumference that was about 2% longer
(2839mm) than measuring when riding (2834mm). Riding appears to
compress the tire slightly, giving a smaller than expected
circumference.

You've probably made a typo in the numbers or misplaced a decimal
point. The difference between those two rollouts is actually about
0.18%.

There is also an unclarity in my mind about the definition of 'speed'.
I can think of two definitions for speed. One is the circumference of
the wheel multiplied by the cadence, I call that tyre speed. The other
is the distance covered per unit of time, I call that road speed. The
two are different for (again) two reasons; for both of these, their
effect is in the same direction:

1. Wobble.
2. Tyre compression.

The first is fundamental, and it is a philosophical question what the
'best' definition of speed would be. The second could be avoided by
measuring the rollout while sitting on the uni. I measured the rollout
of my wheels when unloaded but when I sit on them the tyre compresses
and the effective wheel radius decreases. According to my
measurements, the two effects combined cause a difference on the order
of 3%.

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