today I learnt I cant bunny hop :-(

[jifdave]

So riding along minding my business and a car tried to run me off the road on a round about.

The brakes werent stopping me fast enough so I tried to bunny hop a curb to stop me from crashing...

I got the front wheel up but real wheel took the brunt, and I dented my hand built wheel :-(

 

[ianrauk]

What a tosspot driver....

Anyway.. you should be able to bend that back quite easy with a pair of pliers/molegrips.

 

[Dave 123]

Good effort though.
I assume the driver stopped, enquired of your well being, offered to pay for the damage and took you for a cream tea?

 

[jifdave]

Really? I thought that wasn't possible?

I now have a project today.

 

[jifdave]

Good effort though.
I assume the driver stopped, enquired of your well being, offered to pay for the damage and took you for a cream tea?

Of course....

I was stuck in the rain watching said round about for an hour until I was picked up, interestingly 8 people nearly caused accidents by driving like peanuts

 

[Mo1959]

So riding along minding my business and a car tried to run me off the road on a round about.

The brakes werent stopping me fast enough so I tried to bunny hop a curb to stop me from crashing...

I got the front wheel up but real wheel took the brunt, and I dented my hand built wheel :-( View attachment 26852

Bummer. It's a horrible feeling damaging your bike. Hope as Ian says you can straighten it out ok.
Glad you got out of the way of the car though.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

In my head I can bunny hop like the best ,, in reality I just ease the pressure on the tyres , they don't even get them off the ground

 

[ColinJ]

I think it is a good skill to have for emergencies. Early in my adult cycling 'career' I double-punctured when I rode over a length of 4x2 which fell off a skip wagon in front of me and didn't have time to brake. After that, I learned to bunnyhop. I have bunnyhopped housebricks, potholes and even whole cattlegrids in the years since then.

 

[ufkacbln]

I don't bunny hop..........

 

[Sara_H]

I suspect my OH (age 45) was attempting to bunny hop when he sustained his gruesome hand injury last week.

Hope your wheel can be sorted

 

[ColinJ]

When I was learning to bunnyhop, I returned home from a ride to find a couple of neighbours gossiping on the pavement a few yards down from my house. (I live on a little cobbled backstreet and our houses do not have gardens.) Mister Cool decided to bunnyhop the kerb but misjudged it and landed the front wheel on the edge of a kerbstone. Much amusement for Mister VeryUncool's neighbours; much pain for him - cobbles are hard!

 

[Cyclopathic]

Really? I thought that wasn't possible?

I now have a project today.

Or an adjustable spanner can be quite handy for this sort of thing.

 

[Sandra6]

Brave effort - sorry about your wheel.
Mr6 and I were just talking about this the other day after I was telling him about a chap who was run off the road by a bus and had to hop on to the kerb. I doubt I'd be able to do it, but he's fairly confident he still has the skills of a 10 year old.

 

[karl61]

It was bunny hopping that buckled my wheel. I looked round for my team car for a replacement wheel, only to realise I was on my Sunday morning loop and not in the T D F. Ah well!! L B S to the rescue, trued it up good and proper.

 

[Saluki]

I suspect my OH (age 45) was attempting to bunny hop when he sustained his gruesome hand injury last week.

Hope your wheel can be sorted

How is the mangled hand?

@jifdave Bummer about that wheel. I hope that you can get it sorted out.