Think Bikes Tutorials - 7 - The Bunny Hop

A foundation move in any bicycle discipline - the bunny hop! Getting both wheels off the ground at the same time. Followed by the American bunny hop and a few tricky variants...

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• think
• bikes
• stunts
• trials
• danny
• macaskill
• bmx
• training
• lessons
• tutorials
• 360
• bunny
• hop
• american

[UnipsychleProduction]

Will there be a tutorial of pedal kicks or hopping in place on your back wheel?

[thinkbikes]

@UnipsychleProduction Yup - it's already up :)

[MartinTheBoge]

0:20 to start

[malinbranduse]

guys you make the best tutorials

i leanerd how to bunnyhop in 2 day ! yayyy!



[jeffhardy3457]

how do you keep your feet on the pedals?

[MPJ089]

is this a 26" bike ?

[ozmark79]

There's a part of this move which seems to help big time but is never pointed out clearly - as your front wheel reaches the peak of the lift, push forward on the handlebars. Watch 1:55 . Cuz near that point you and the bike are almost airborne - pushing forward on the bars causes the bike to tip over forwards, and bingo the rear wheel goes up. Does this work for anyone?

[magnuswf]

Hi ThinkBikes, I already know how to do the normal bunnyhop, obstracle "climb", track standing, endo, and going backwards. I'm not really good at all of them but I am a little trained. I'm pretty god at doing wheelies. I have once driven 2,3 km, and I have good control over my bike when i'm doing it. My question is, How long would it take to learn all of these tricks? I am overall pretty good at driving. BTW great vids :)

[NinjaGranny007]

I can do the american one ok but I only go about 10cm high, yet with the normal one I go much higher. I'm trying to get high on the american one but I can't, any tips?

[xxx2994]

Hey guys first off great videos really helped alot with my technique so thanks for that. Secondly i was wondering if there was a proper way to lift the front wheel up? is there some sorta technique or more about just upper body strength? Thanks

[TheMightyDMan]

@5furio7 Sorry I didn't explain but Clawing is when you angle your foot on the pedals so that you can grip it either to pull or push. Like when you Bunny Hop your standing and you claw when you point your toes towards the ground and pull the bak of your bike up...

[2012Way]

Do u need to be able to manual to do the first half of the american bunny hop or can u just lift the front up?

[josemex576]

So wht bike was he using?