What is concidered to be a good bunny hop with a 45lb bike?
Bunny Hop?
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If you get anything less than six feet of air, you're not 'core.
I could clear a 24" log on my DH bike when I had to... Just messing around in a parking lot, I can usually get any bike a foot or so off the ground. Oddly, how high I can hop is directly related to how high I need to go to clear an obstical in my way... so I'm not really sure what my max is. 
Same thing happens to me. One of my best moments on a ride ever was ripping down a dry streambed and seeing a log that had fallen across it. I was going too fast to stop so I pulled the best bunny hop of my life and both tires just touched the top of it. It was definitely well over a foot high, at least around 2'. Flat ground, I can probably get both tires a foot or so, maybe a bit less. Besides, it's rare you actually have to hop anything when actually riding.Ian F said:I could clear a 24" log on my DH bike when I had to... Just messing around in a parking lot, I can usually get any bike a foot or so off the ground. Oddly, how high I can hop is directly related to how high I need to go to clear an obstical in my way... so I'm not really sure what my max is.
Just wondering cuz i was just out and got about 1.5 feet from a track stand. 
Depends on the bike too...
A Turner will hop MUCH better than a V-10 for example.
A Turner will hop MUCH better than a V-10 for example.
I ride an '04 Big Hit Expert.
JRogers said:
Maybe where you ride. I bunny hop stuff all the time.
Even if you don't have to bunny hop to clear an obstacle, it's the same motion you use when pre-jumping something. It's a good skill to work on.
buildyourown said:
Or when you are riding down the trail and suddenly it disappears b/c it washed down a 100ft cliff, and you have to hop a 6ft gap or DIE
Or like up at Whistler when you are coming down Garbanzo, you go past the other lift, and there is a 3ft trench you have to hop.
i can get my azonic eliminator (47lbs) about 3ft up a loading dock...but my friends all hate me....
I can get over pretty big logs (3 feet at least) and onto loading docks on my big bike, but if your wheels touch it's not the same as a competition-style hop. By popping off the log you can clear things much bigger than your biggest parking lot hop. I've always done the front-wheel first style of hop, so with a big log what I do is get the front wheel pretty much on top and pull up from there. If it goes well I end up popping both tires off the log, kind of like hitting a jump lip. Momentum, suspension, and confidence are your friends here. Just make sure to keep the front end up, or its endo city when the rear wheel hits the log.
There's this one log I'm thinking of that is at least 2.5 feet, I actually pop it like a jump and style a little air off it. Drives my friends nuts, especially if they're in front and have to stop, only to watch me clear it...
There's this one log I'm thinking of that is at least 2.5 feet, I actually pop it like a jump and style a little air off it. Drives my friends nuts, especially if they're in front and have to stop, only to watch me clear it...
You can almost always hop higher over something then just hopping moving slow or still.
LOL! I think I remember that... cruising along... "hey look... nice little jump..." get closer... "OH CRAP! That ain't so little! And I'm going way too fast to stop now!! Here goes nothin!"-BB- said:
Some time ago, I did an XC ride on my M-1 to test some new settings... went by myself and ended up hooking with a couple of locals who knew the trails better than I did... All was good... The faster guy would lose me in the straights (riding a Titus Racer X), but I could corner better and would catch him in the twisties. Then they found out I could hop better than many... then it turned into a ride of finding every single log in the park and goading me into jumping over them...
Some bikes are easier to hop than others and set-up plays a factor as well. The way I had the M1 set (low, slack, short stays, Avy w/ Ti spring) made it one of the easiest bikes to hop I have ever owned. Didn't matter if I had my Boxxer or my Monster T on it. On the few occasions I road a V-10, I didn't find it too hard to hop... not like the Super 8... which was a bear for me to get off the ground even a few inches...
ya i have the 05 aline and its a b*tch to bunny hop, at the most i can get 6 inches to a foot.
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buildyourown said:
Haha yeah... I bunny hop somthing atleast every 5 mins thru a ride. Street or trail.... Agreed on the prejumping
What I really meant was that there are few places on many trails (DH included) where you HAVE to hop over a few inches. I've ridden at most every DH mountain in the NE, and I've found this to be the case. I do usually hop quite a bit (faster to fly over than roll over) but it's not like there are huge rocks and logs all over that a well-timed manual and a weight shift can't handle.=[Stinky]= said:
caputo1989 said:
got the same bike. good stuff. when i got it new and assembled it, it had i think a 4 or 450 spring. i weigh 250 so i bottom that on 3' drops. but i had the rebound all the way fast and the minimun air in the air chamber of the 4-way. i could bunny hop about 2.5 feet. it was crazy. i can only jump my i-drive about 16" while moving most of the time. thing was like a pogo stick. i now have the proper spring, rebound and air pressure in the rear so i can only hop it about 12" while moving. haven't needed to jump over big stuff yet. i think if i needed to, and i didn't have my camelbak on (i can hop much better without it) i could probably clear 2' without crashing.
i would love to see some pics or mpegs of guys bunnyhopping a DH bike up onto a loading dock. not saying it can't be done, but it's damn impressive.
for some reason that sounds a lot more like running into it with speed and pulling up then bunny hopping lol... if thats how u bunny hop ive been able to bunny hop up almost everything!OGRipper said: