Ride through a pot hole or bunny hop it?

Being a bit of a lump I was wondering which is the better option if you dont have time to go round a pot hole/ bump in the road. Is riding through the hole better (in terms of wear and tear on the bike) or is bunny hopping preferred.

Surprisingly this is a genuine question, and yes, I am aware of how to find bike radar.

usually if i have time to bunny hop it, i have time to swerve around it. i can only bunny hop when my feet/cranks are in a certain position.

best thing to do if you don't have enough time to avoid it is simply lift up your front wheel and take the weight off your rear wheel.

so in effect, a bunnyhop. FML.

post it

bunny and post combo

i would say hop , there's no telling whats in the hole or how deep it is.

sorry if i missed something.

Lift the front wheel over the offending obstacle then get out of the saddle when the rear wheel goes over it.

Lift the front wheel over the offending obstacle then get out of the saddle when the rear wheel goes over it.

what i said, but then realised if you pull yourself up a bit more you're just doing a bunnyhop

That pothole looks like Roy Orbison:

Lift the front wheel over the offending obstacle then get out of the saddle when the rear wheel goes over it.

The only way when you can see it coming.When you don't,you can feel the pain going through those wheels.Especially the front.

1. Ride around them
   
2. Failing that, learn how to unweight the bike properly (lift yourself off the bike and let the bike move up towards you) and most potholes will not do anything harmful.
   
3. Bunnyhopping 'can' be useful in a bunch situation where the hole is big and swerving would bring someone down. Make sure you can actually bunnyhop it properly without taking your fellow riders down.
   

sorry if i missed something.

Love this, on coppiThat posts passim.

If you notice the pothole too late, you can also try to shift your weight so that the front wheel goes round one side of the hole and the rear wheel round the other. As an experienced rider, you probably do this instinctively, anyway, but if not, it is a technique worth learning. I'm afraid I can't find a graphic on-line illustrating this, but from memory, it is described in good riding manuals like Cyclecraft.

That pothole looks like Roy Orbison:

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look for the sun glasses and the rest falls into place.

You should not be jumping nuffink with your grapes.

http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/newsroom/all-press-releases/display/id/2453

^ You can also ride over a conveniently positioned plank if there is one.

noticed a few riders bunny hopping across a kerb on sunday's TdF stage. smooth.

I would always hop over a hole/dip on the geared bike, but have never done so (yet) on the fixed due to concerns over how I would land.

I tend to have visions of landing in a lurid skid, which would not be great.

In all probability it would be fine- one of those things I should just HTFU and try.

My opinion is that doing a small hop must put less pressure on wheels etc than slamming into the hard edge of a hole.

jump rabbit jump!

My opinion is that unweighting the bike so as not to "slam the hole" puts less pressure on wheels than a bunnyhop AND/OR "slamming the hole".

Slamming the hole.

Slamming the hole.

I just like the sound of it ok?

Slamming the hole.

mis-reads thread and walks off to slam the hole

some more quality bunnyhop straight over the roundabout action in the last few of k of today's stage.

I rode through a pothole this morning. Wasn't going at a great speed, just above average commuter pace... so that'd be in the 16 > 18mph area (from the gear I was in and my estimated cadence at the time).

The thing is... I heard a hell of a cracking/whacking noise from the rear wheel and arrived at work to discover that I've had a spoke snap (sheered off near the nipple) and the rim now has a crack in it.

Is this the kind of thing which is claimable against the council that failed to fill in the pot hole? It was a sudden and deep-ish hole and really threw me when I hit it. Unfortunately in moving traffic it wasn't visible until way too late and sudden braking could easily have been more dangerous (I couldn't have swerved either... the traffic was close).

diable mentioned you need to report the hole first, since if they are unaware of it they can't be held responsible for it. Someone on here must have claimed.