How to Bunny Hop a Road Bike

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Quick tutorial on How to Bunny Hop a Road Bike. It isn't just for BMX and MTB. • The Helmet I use: https://amzn.to/344OwAR • My Favorite Flat Pedal: https://amzn.to/2WaMe0h • This Video was Filmed on: https://amzn.to/2BD8XZk • • If you clicked on this video, you’re probably looking to get radical on your road bike. While the bunny hop can be used to impress humans and animals alike, it’s also an important weapon to have in your arsenal. It can be used to avoid obstacles in the road, or get over some pesky potholes. I’m going to demonstrate how to do this with clips and on flats, so let’s get right to it. • You’ll need to do a couple things in preparation. First thing I will recommend is putting on a helmet. You may not look as cool, but head injuries and hospital bills aren’t very cool either. Next you’re going to want to make sure your tires are aired up pretty high as to avoid getting a pinch flat. I generally put mine around 105-110 psi, and I’ve never blown a tire jumping around. • I also see a lot of bunnyhop tutorials saying to lower your seat. While that’s great for mountain bikes and bmx, you’ll rarely have this type of situation on a road bike. If you are a complete beginner, then lower your saddle a bit, but otherwise you don’t want to be riding around like this. If you can learn the bunnyhop with the seat in your actual riding position, it will make you that much more prepared in an emergency. • Next find a small obstacle like a broom stick, a skateboard, or even just a crack in the pavement. Just something you can visually use to time your hops, but won’t make you have a catastrophic crash if you hit it. Roll at it slowly, and before you run into it with your tire, compress your arms down while standing. Right before your tire hits, shift your body weight towards the back whilst lifting the bike towards your chest. Depending on how tall the obstacle is will determine how high you’ll need to pull the bars up. It’s meant to be a fluid motion. If you rely solely on your arms to do all the work…you’re gonna be sore. Keep practicing this until you’re comfortable with that motion. You can also practice this going off a curb which is another great skill to learn. Right before you roll off the curb lift your front wheel to level out the bike, and just let the bike tire roll off. Much safer than letting your front wheel just roll off curb. Hello Hospital! • Next step is to lift the back wheel up by itself. This is also a fluid motion, and you’ll feel it when you get it right. While standing on the bike, shift your body weight forward while keeping constant down force on your bars. Also keep a good amount of pressure on your pedals. While you are shifting your weight forward, focus on using your feet to do a backwards scooping motion. If you pay close attention you will see my toes start to point downwards, and this is happening because of the scooping motion. This one takes a lot more practice than lifting the front wheel. Keep at it, and it will become second nature. • Next you just link these 2 steps together. There are 2 ways of doing this. One motion where you are actually hopping, or as 2 separate moves to get up a large curb that you can’t jump up. If you are planning on doing the actual bunnyhop you will need to do the 2 steps rather quickly. Going up a curb is a bit easier because the focus is mostly on clearing your front wheel. While not ideal to just let your back wheel hit the curb and roll up with momentum, it’s still safer than ramming your front wheel into a curb because you didn’t watch this tutorial. • If you choose to be clipped in, which I am 90% of my rides, you’ll probably end up doing an English bunnyhop which is where both wheels leave the ground at same time. I use this a lot while riding especially at high speeds when I can’t swerve to miss a pothole or something in the road. You won’t be able to hop as high this way, but it’s very useful in a fast paced situation. Just literally jump. Your feet are attached to the bike, so it will come up with you. I recommend learning it the proper way, and using this as needed. • DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for the support!

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