Excerpt from J-Hop-on-a-Mountain-Bike

This guide will tell you how to easily bunny hop with a mountain bike within approximately 1-2 weeks with practice.

Steps

1. Start riding on your bike at a comfortable pace, maybe 4-6mph. Keep yourself in the center of the bike at first.
2. Bend down and lean forward a little bit.
3. Push down on the shocks (front) and lift up with explosive action. Your front should be 1-1.5ft off the ground for best results.
4. This is the part where everyone messes up. You are not going to just lift up and hope the rear comes up; there is a trick to it. The point is that you have to leave the rear of the bike weightless by tapping off the pedals, while still lifting up on the handlebars and foward.
5. Level off to clear the object better, or just to get more air. While in the air, push forward and kinda “rev” the handlebars although twisting the handlebars is not always necessary, making the rear wheel level with the front.
6. Make your landing. Try landing on the rear tire or on both. Landing the front tire first might mess you up, unless you have awesome control. If you’re j-hopping high or off an object, try absorbing the landing with your body by crouching at the bottom of the land, like a chain reaction from the bottom to the top.

Tips

* Never try bunny hopping off a wheelie. You will fail and probably fall.
* Going too fast will make you have a lot of downforce there for bringing the height of your bunny hop a couple of precious inches down. Going too slowly means that you might not clear the object.
* Never give up after the first few tries. It can take a month to actually get it up to 1 foot, so keep trying, please.
* Try with a light bike first, until you can get it up in the air. Then move to a heavier bike so you can practice/train on it. When you move back to the light bike, you’ll be surprised.
* You might not notice that you’re actually getting air until your friend tells you. Therefore, you should practice with your friend.

Warnings

* Always wear a helmet; yeah, you might think that it’s not a hard trick and that you won’t get hurt but you never know…
* Try doing it with a friend, we don’t want a body on the street screaming for help, do we…

This seems to have been written by someone who obviously wants people to learn just enough of this manuever to be amusing to watch. I love the descriptions the author uses to describe the movements…clear as mud right? It actually doesn’t make any sense to me and I am a trained bunnyhop master ninja jockey jumper.
I’ll be hosting a bunnyhop how-to weekend for any bike you bring and will supply the beer.
Someday.