Anyone got any good bunnyhop pictures???

heres mine

[img]http://us.a1.yahoofs.com/users/43319af1z87e52d83/1c38/__sr_/b3cdre2.jpg?phQro3DB7QtNx9UI[/img]

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/glennwmiii/d...re2.jpg&.src=ph

and if your interested. Here is an old school 70's style GT clock.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

gm

Couple of me from 1981.



Take my word for it, there is no jump in this shot.

Randy............
Are you speaking about the bottom photo not having a jump being used? If so I must speak up here. There is no way, no way on GODS earth could anyone bunnyhop 8" off the ground. Its just not possible. LOL

Hal you need to post yours again !!!!!

Not me.....but one of my favorites!!

Thats Brent Patterson 1980...KILLER skills!!

PK- that was taken at a local High School in Hayward. Brent and I practiced those high hurdle hops all the time. We got really good at them. Now, I'd be lucky to get over a curb! Speaking of 'curb' anyone have a picture of Dave Vanderspek (Curbdogs) doing a table top bunnyhop?

[ January 30, 2006, 08:57 PM: Message edited by: NorCal74 ]

I am on the hunt for my pictures of Tony Nurse, anybody remember him? Anybody else have pictures of him? Chances are, you do if you ever did any East Coast racing.

Tony lived in or near Owensboro, Kentucky. I'm sure Greg Esser, Tim Judge and a few others can tell ya this is true.

Tony could clear a fully stretched tennis net like he was hopping a curb. Just about every big race in Southern Ind. and All over Ky. he would blow people away with his hopping skills.

He would hop over full size picnic tabled LONG WAYS ! He would clear both ends by at least a foot! I remember him hopping the entire front end of a 72"-73" Caddy with 6" to 8" to spare!

Renny Roker watched him race and hop unreal stuff and he was put right on Team Jag either 78' or 79'

The thing that would really kill ya is when he landed; it was like a feather!



[ January 31, 2006, 10:34 PM: Message edited by: Rod Miles ]

here you go Norcal :

COOL!! ....Thanks.

Rest in Peace Buddy............

MIke, I'll try to find it again...Its on our server somewhere...lol

Wow, That table top hop is just SICK...

I almost feel embarrassed to post this next one.

[img]http://us.a1.yahoofs.com/users/43319af1z87e52d83/34e3/__sr_/9b93re2.jpg?phQW23DBNLFFxL6s[/img]

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/glennwmiii/d...re2.jpg&.src=ph

not bad for a "flatlander" huh...

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I remember that shot of Brent Patterson hopping the hurdle from BMX Action BITD. That was the first picture that came to mind when I saw the title of this thread. Thanks NORCAL74!

We use to have some fun (serious but fun) corridor races at the local elementary school, the best ones were at night! It was four laps, like speedway, with mega power-slides around the corners. We’d put their 55gal trashcans in the corridors so if you really wanted to win you had to bunny hop them; if you went around them you’d lose every time.

As for landings, if you didn’t land smooth you’d trash the rims. We use to teach everyone to “land like an airplane”; I can’t believe I remember that. As soon as you’d touch down lift again, like a touch-and-go.

I've cleared 46 inches doing bunnyhops a very long time ago.
Unfortunately, no photographic proof.
It was a pretty awesome feeling to pull that off.
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I know who "I WIN" Tony Nurse was.
They posted a head shot of him in a big Jag
story in a 70's Minicycle BMX Action magazine.
If I find it, I'll post.

[ January 31, 2006, 06:17 PM: Message edited by: JohnnyJohnson OMAS DirtSlinger ]

Vander's bunnyhop table is sick. I can't get tables that flat off a lip!

Now, would someone kindly post some Ronnie Anderson bunnyhop pics? The shopping cart one and maybe the crazy ledge sequence from BMXA or Freestylin'.

i can only bunnyhop onto things as tall as my wheel....like just under 2' ?...

whats the secret to those insane bunny hops???

The front wheel is easy to pick up, the back wheel is the trick to bunnyhops. It is all in your forearm strength.

I learned by jumping onto cardboard bales behind shopping centers. They are soft enough that if you miss (back wheel) that you won't mess up your sprocket or wheel. They are great to use because you can turn them different ways to change the height.

After that I started jumping onto loading docks. The rubber bumpers that stop the trucks would save your wheel if you hung up...

If you are jumping onto something it is easier for some reason...

I also had homemade bunnyhop stand when I was a kid, so in our neighborhood we would have contests every week. It maxed out at 4 feet and by the end I could clear that easily.

I still have weirdly freakish forearms. (like popeye).

My highest bunnyhop was onto a 5 foot high loading dock. But, I was being chased by the police for riding in downtown Raleigh at the time, and my adrenaline was screaming.

I went back to that dock and tried it again a few times and didn't even come close. (ouch)

Needless to say the cop didn't even attempt to follow.

My flat bike weighed in at 27 pounds...

gm

Here's a little vintage RL and Buff!
My...aren't they colorful?

That's an awsome pic of Buff & RL. Gotta love it.

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I've cleared 46 inches doing bunnyhops a very long time ago.
Unfortunately, no photographic proof.


johnny...........you crack me up. is this 46" vertical or horizontal?

i bunnyhopped over a doorknob factory once, but no cameras, but i swear i did it. was airborne for at least 38 seconds..........

OHHHH BYE THE WAY..........ID SWAP A SET OF NOS HUTCH PEDALS FOR A SET OF NOS BUFFS SHOES RIGHT NOW. SIZE 10

[ February 01, 2006, 07:08 PM: Message edited by: TONE ]

Those ain't nothin here's mine.

Hmmm, looks a little fishy to me

Yeah I'm BSin ya.. LOL.. I just could not resist.

TONE,
My story is true. I said I had no photographic proof because it's a little more forthright to say it up front than to NOT and be called on it later.

I've got enough friends on Vintage who would call B.S. on me if they figured I was stretching the truth.
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Sometime around 82' or 83' I had a bunnyhop contest in the alley behind my childhood home.
My good friend Dwight Jones (whom I posted a BMX Plus parting shot of here on Vintage) was the only one good enough to compete with me.

After about an hour and half, we were just kept going higher and higher. It was surprising to me. Didn't think I had it in me.

We used standard red bricks. They were stacked normal at the bottom. But at a certain height, we started to turn the bricks sideway so that the distance across would be a little shorter. We had to start beefing up the botom rows too to keep the bricks from falling over.

My friend Dwight was sticking right with me. He maxed out around 42" or 44" (can't recall exactly).

I went for 46" and tapped the brick slightly I believe two times. I finally cleared it. Then I did it "one more time" and hit and crashed. It was on asphalt with light gravel and dirt on top. Scrapped up my hands. Decided that was enough.

Some time later, I recalled reading that the World record bunnyhop height was the 46". I figured I had no proof other than a few friends in an alley. Good enough for me.

About the only bunny hop I do now days: