Mountain Biking - Hopping question...

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killerasp
09-15-03, 01:49 PM
Ive been reading some of the posts here and most poeple seem to agree on moving your body weight over the handle bars and in a fluid motion, llift the handle bars to you and compress your legs to get the back wheel up. But this sounds like a regular hop than a bunny hop.

From trials, i read that a bunny hop is done by moving your weight to the back of the bike and lifiting the front wheel. Then grab tightly of the handle bars and twist foward to get the back wheel up.

I really dont get a hop from a bunny hop. Either way, you are getting your bike off the ground. the way ive been doing it was the first way where both of the wheels come off the ground at the same time in parallel with the ground.


Maelstrom
09-15-03, 01:59 PM
Well really according to old school bmxers its all a bunny hop (I believe PNJ is quite the historian of the bunny hop, had some really cool old school pics on another board). Its all hopping...Trials riders just like to specify the j-hop, hop and bunny hop. Either way its an argument beyond me as I only got into this sport last year haha

Cool found the thread...http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55169

The bunny hop where the front comes up first and then you spring the rear up gets signifigantly more height.

oxygen_77
09-16-03, 07:02 AM
Great link Maelstrom!!! Wow! I've been bunnyhopping for years and still got lots of useful information from that link! Thanks man!


Hunter
09-16-03, 07:18 AM
Yeah a "bunnyhop" is what I have called it since like 1977. The other term is recent, and probably made up because "bunnyhop" hurts some people to say.

mtbkanata
09-16-03, 12:13 PM
Here is my attempt to explain how to do a Bunny-Hop.. I have four small videos too...

http://www.mtbkanata.com/mbhowdoidothat.html

Joe