Video: Ben Cathro's Tips to Bunny Hop Higher - How To Bike

 But you'll be an idiot with a mountain bike, so it balances out.

 @danielfloyd: We're not learning wheelies here.

 If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

 @lncorgnito: that is the best!

 This method works 86% better with cameras rolling.

 So true! I have recognized bunny hopping truly works better for me out of necessity/preservation vs. practice.

 Even if you don't want to go full tilt towards some wheel munching sharp edge concrete lip of doom, use some bricks and a wooden cane and make a little high jump bar which you can keep adjusting upwards. Halfway house I guess. I'm sure I did this about 25 years ago learning to bunny hop out in the street and very quickly got up to clearing a wheel diameter. Time and lack of practice have not been kind, no way could I hop up that high now.

 I can bunny hop/wheelie/manual for exactly as long as I need to on the trail...in my driveway not so much.

 @veero: Wheelsizes got bigger...

 @MartinKS: Haha good point, maybe I can still hop over a 26" wheel

 We called the former a “bronco hop” when I was growing up in the late 90s-early 00s, Boston area. The latter was a “bunny hop” for us too.

 100% - our generation definitely did not call that a "bunny hop".

 J-hop, bronco hop I've heard over the years.....one interesting name I heard, this is probably back in the late 80's early 90's in the trials scene was "Total Unload" for a double wheel traditional bunny hop, I laughed as hard then as I do know every time I hear that

 We called it a Bunny hop in the early seventies California. Still use that term.

 We called it a "Pro hop" and bunny top was the two wheel cheater way.

 early 80s we called it a bronco too. bunny hops were the equivalent of using clipless pedals today. They were for the kids that couldn't even hop a curb. Which was a very important skill.

 I remember "J Hops" for what Cathro is teaching (though more with an emphasis on getting the front wheel over an obstacle first and then the back wheel but still all in the same movement and not necessarily for sheer height) in this video and "Bunny Hop" for both wheels hopping at the same time in early MTB but I also remember being taught to "Bunny Hop" a BMX in the way Cathro is teaching here... so sure it varied depending on where and what you learnt.

 bunny hop it n00b

 dirt jump 26, perhaps even better, 24 are the shit to learn this on. meanwhile both wheel sizes have been killed so no one could actually ride a bike

 I’ll just give up now then

 @baca262: Killed?
Me, my family and my friends all ride 26" bikes all the time.
Old, yes, but not dead just yet :-D

 @jdkellogg: I see I've found my highschool arguer counterpart. hahaha

In all seriousness. I wasn't suggesting once is right vs wrong, just that the term that was dominant in my time has disappeared. Nothing more, nothing less. I am curious about why the term would trigger you though?

 We always knew it as a normal bunnyhop and, when lifting the front first, as an 'American' bunnyhop. Though we never really knew why.

 @jdkellogg: while the debate can still be held on naming convention - 2 wheel lifts are 100% still used although in indirect ways. IME they come into play anytime you un-weight the bike, say before a jump you want to scrub or off of a steep drop you can pop off of so you don't auger your front wheel or through a nasty rock garden as you 'pump' the bike through it....go watch a guy like Chris Akrigg pump around rocks and obstacles, you are seeing a very sim technique used.

Watch this @ 2:13 (many other instances)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2EpYdhj9a8

 @jdkellogg: if you ever find yourself in a rut so deep and narrow you risk clipping pedals even when you have them level (think cart track) : this is where a two wheel hop is useful.

 @jdkellogg: Yawn.
You do you, I do me. My old school two wheel bunny hop serves me just fine jumping up sidewalks and over roots and rocks on the trail, thank you very much.

 @jdkellogg: I would agree with others here that learning to load the bike then simultaneously unweight both the wheels has a whole load of applications on the trail and is used a lot. No harm in having more skills. Be a silly argument to say of two different movements on a bike that one is wrong as every situation and application is different. Learning to do both movement patterns would seem the ideal strat.

 Kook @jdkellogg: