How To Bunny Hop A Bike | GCN's Pro Cycling Tips

The bunnyhop is an essential road cycling skill, and it's one that's sure to impress your mates! Learn how to bunny hop a road bike here with ex-Tour De France cyclist Dan Lloyd.

From getting that front wheel up, to scooping the pedals to get your back wheel off the ground, Dan Lloyd runs you through the technique behind the coolest way to hop the curb to the café.

Let us know how you get on in the comments down below👇 We'd love to see how high you can get!

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[gcn]

Let us know how you get on with bunny hops in the comments section below 👇

[andrewpeacock]

Pure terror will teach you how to bunny hop in one frightening lesson. Riding down a rural road in Indiana, a grain truck left me no room to maneuver to avoid a dead possum on the edge of the tarmac. It was a case of swerve into the path of the truck, take a tumble into the weeds or jump my bike. I claim no points for style, but I cleared the possum and stayed upright. My comments regarding the driver of the truck are not fit to be printed!

[haxhxm]

Gcn's production level has really notched alot of level up with this kind of videos

[LukasDombrovsky]

Great bunny hoping, Dan. I rode bmx as teenager, when 80cm bunnyhop was not a problem for me. I am roadie now and I have to say road bikes have anti-bunnyhop geometry and also seat is high. If I do 5cm bunnyhop I am glad :D But its definitely worth learning.

[marcuscheung]

Hahahah, I’m a teenager, I learnt it in the past 2 hours after watching this video

[johnbouttell]

According to Wikipedia: Daniel "Boss" Lloyd is a retired professional road racing cyclist from Christchurch who allegedly used to ride for the Cervélo TestTeam.

[sophiam]

Ha! I am a teenager and I will definitely be trying this on my next ride! Cheers!

[Pienimusta]

Martyn Ashton be like : Kids please, next front flip.

[.mm]

i ever tried bunny hop using flat pedals, it's just me jumping on the bike

[jeffbrunton]

Very good lesson. Tried from other videos, but this was by far the best

[accolade]

Great video. If you are using a gravel bike on single track terrain, a bunny hop will become very useful. The reason I clicked on this video.

[Jackiemk]

I tried yesterday over a curb, almost killed myself! lol I think I will try to practice first!

[Sjpdad]

Ive watched over 200+ GCN videos, but this is the first one Ive seen the same day it was released

[oknevals]

It took me 50 years to learn to lift front wheel. Hopefully, I can learn to lift the back one in another 50 and another 50 to put it together.

[petarstoisavljevic]

ex-Tour de France cyclist(probably before they introduced mineral water)?! Dan, you are gonna impress some ladies here!

[subireghu]

This video has helped me the most...the other 2 videos was not so clear as this one, , thanks a lot for this video, gradually trying to learn all the skills with ur support

[stevenbarrett]

Mastered bunny hops as a child on my Raleigh grifter and carried that over to mountain biking as a teen. Wasn’t as much fun on the road bike.. I really miss my right bollock.

[benwestheimerwestheimer]

All the GCN people should do a bike race against each other and do vids about their bikes like pro bikes in Tour de France !

[Pratalax]

I definitely prefer being on the hoods for hops, i find the tops too narrow for standing manoeuvres.
Also, as someone else mentioned, a vid on hopping up a curb at an angle seems like a good idea too.

[weltonn]

Holy shi*. I was sure i couldn't do It because i was in a road bike. But then this guys came and show i It in a simple and beautiful way.