I learnt to bunny hop this weekend.

Dippydog2
Dippydog2 Posts: 291
edited September 2014 in Road general
Watched that video on GCN about skills worth learning.

I had the opposite to a mis-spent youth so never learned how to jump a stunt bike over an unsuspecting younger kid.

Great skill to learn for road biking. I now seek out pot holes so I can jump over them.

If only I was fifty years younger.

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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    Better late than never.
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  • diy
    diy Posts: 6,473
    sounds like you'd have more fun on an MTB. I'm not sure I'd be actively trying to hop my road bike.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    diy wrote:
    sounds like you'd have more fun on an MTB. I'm not sure I'd be actively trying to hop my road bike.

    Surely better to hop holes than plough into them?
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,317
    I'm not sure that technique is of any use on the road to be honest... it's probably OK to jump up on to the pavement in traffic at very low speed, but if you want to jump over a pothole or a speed bump at 30 mph, it's quicker and safer to simply lift the bike in one step, pushing on the pedals and then using them as a springboard, while you lift the front... that's what I have always called a bunny hop
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  • IanRCarter
    IanRCarter Posts: 217
    It's better to just go around the pot hole. In certain cases it can be a choice of hitting the hole or jumping it, or having to slow down for a speed bump or jump it. I hate the thought of what I'm doing to my wheels when I do it, I'm not Peter Sagan, I don't get given a new set when mine are damaged.
  • gloomyandy
    gloomyandy Posts: 520
    I ride with a guy who regularly hops speed bumps, pot holes etc. He also seems to regularly have to take his wheels to the lbs to get spokes replaced and other issues fixed. May just be coincidence but you have to wonder.
  • BrandonA
    BrandonA Posts: 553
    Rolf F wrote:
    diy wrote:
    sounds like you'd have more fun on an MTB. I'm not sure I'd be actively trying to hop my road bike.

    Surely better to hop holes than plough into them?

    I tend to try and go around them.
  • DavidJB
    DavidJB Posts: 2,019
    I put all my weight into the back wheel when I go over them.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    BrandonA wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    diy wrote:
    sounds like you'd have more fun on an MTB. I'm not sure I'd be actively trying to hop my road bike.

    Surely better to hop holes than plough into them?

    I tend to try and go around them.

    What do you do when the pot hole is a trough all the way across width of the road?
    Faster than a tent.......
  • wotnoshoeseh
    wotnoshoeseh Posts: 531
    Now learn to track stand
  • holiver
    holiver Posts: 729
    Bunny hopping is cool and I do it regularly.

    Much different technique on a road bike to my jump bike though.
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  • jordan_217
    jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    Dippydog2 wrote:
    Watched that video on GCN about skills worth learning.

    I had the opposite to a mis-spent youth so never learned how to jump a stunt bike over an unsuspecting younger kid.

    Great skill to learn for road biking. I now seek out pot holes so I can jump over them.

    If only I was fifty years younger.


    Cool. Now get to bed, you have school tomorrow!

    Apologies if you're not my seven year old son :wink::)
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  • Dippydog2
    Dippydog2 Posts: 291
    jordan_217 wrote:
    Dippydog2 wrote:
    Watched that video on GCN about skills worth learning.

    I had the opposite to a mis-spent youth so never learned how to jump a stunt bike over an unsuspecting younger kid.

    Great skill to learn for road biking. I now seek out pot holes so I can jump over them.

    If only I was fifty years younger.


    Cool. Now get to bed, you have school tomorrow!

    Apologies if you're not my seven year old son :wink::)

    I had a seven year son about 25 years ago. You have my sympathies. Don't worry, it gets better in 30 years I am told.

    When I got my first bike it had real gears and real wheels and if I took it off the road my father would not have been impressed. As we lived in Africa and off road had thorns, snakes and beasties he was right. So learning what kids do all the time is fun for me.

    Today I cruised the New Forest. At speed I hopped, or bunny hopped, or whatever over the cattle grids. Much better than rattling my fillings.

    I will go to bed with my Horlicks. :D

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