How not to bunny hop by Jens Voigt
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:29 pm
When I first saw this at full speed I thought something had failed on his bike (tyre, stem, steerer) but this clip in slo mo shows how he fell.
It seems to me, doing 70mph, he tried to bunny hop a rough transition in the tarmac but simply got it all wrong, leaned forward, loaded the front tyre as it hit the white line which, even in the dry, was enough to flip him off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd5k8TaAJk8
Food for thought next time we're doing this on gravel.
It seems to me, doing 70mph, he tried to bunny hop a rough transition in the tarmac but simply got it all wrong, leaned forward, loaded the front tyre as it hit the white line which, even in the dry, was enough to flip him off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd5k8TaAJk8
Food for thought next time we're doing this on gravel.