Bunny Hop
This is one for the older petrol heads out there.
Do any of you know what a bunny hop is? I will give you a clue.
It involved a plank of wood, a pushbike and Peter Purvis!!
Still none the wiser eh, well this all came about after watching Kickstart, the motorcycle trials series presented by Purvis, the former Blue Peter presenter.
It involved the top trials riders in the world hacking about on Lord Hesketh’s estate over very tricky obstacles, one of which was called the ‘Bunny Hop’!
Now this was basically a plank of wood laid lengthwise along the floor. It was help upright by two easily knocked over pillars at either end and the rider had to approach the Hop, jump over it with both wheels while not knocking over said plank!
This looked amazing to us kids and of course the inevitable happened as this show was on during school holidays!
Suffice to say many of us kids were entranced and went out immediately to try and emulate Eddie Lejeune on our Grifters or in my case a metallic green Strika!!
There was much falling over and many grazed knees and rattled pre pubescant scrotii! But a technique was mastered, basically you stand on the pedals and lift up the bike with your arms and legs, somehow the thing stuck to your legs and you were bunnying!!
I can only imagine the local Halfords being inundated with punctures and bent spokes/wheels for weeks after this amazing new trick was born!
But I was able to manage to do one, but sadly never managed to find a spare plank! No one need know that though of course!!
