Does anyone go mountain biking?

Like Provenrad said, we're going this weekend and hopefully gonna make it regular as the weather improves. Everyone's welcome to come along. I did some mountain biking a while ago, but not properly and on a shit bike so haven't really got the skills. Have you got a bike yet? ebay or singletrackworld forum might get you something second hand and cheapish.

Do you wanna jump off ramps (like the picture above) or just as part of trail riding? Either way, the best start is the basic bunny hop. This is from the mtbr forums:

Ok guys, this is my first attempt at making a tutorial of any kind so bear with me. I think it is a pretty decent guide that should get you going in no time. Requests for instructions on bunnyhopping come up all the time so I figured a video tutorial was in order. You can read all you want but unless you watch it happening I don't think reading volumes of text is going to help much. However, in addition to this video, I do advise you to read some of the instructional pages out there as there are some really good tips.

I tried to keep it real simple, though incredibly versitile the bunnyhop is actually a really basic trick. I've got several examples inside and I break it down frame by frame. In volume 2, I'll go over some other methods of bunnyhopping as well as some very trick ways to use it on the trail and maybe a quick session around town.

Here are two versions, differing only in resolution and size. Please RIGHT CLICK and choose SAVE TARGET AS to save these files to your computer for playback.

This one is 320x200 at about 7MB:
http://www.secretreality.com/mtb/tut...op_320x200.wmv

This one is 640x480 and about 30MB:
http://www.secretreality.com/mtb/tut...op_640x480.wmv

Get out there and practice, practice, practice! You'll be airborne in no time! Good luck!

-Flow

From this thread http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=74422