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>Are you assuming use of an MTB here, or can you do this on a wimpy roadbike
>without the wheels spontaneously folding up on landing? I've seen 'cros
>racers hop logs, but I *think* they might have stronger bikes.

Nope, a wimpy road bike can handle it just fine.... providing you make
some attempt to set it down easy after your "flight".  At any rate, the
landing is less likely to damage your rims than the sharp impact of
whatever it was you were jumping over.  Sometimes, crit racers use this
method to "leap over crashes in a single bound".  I saw John Tomac try
it a couple years ago in a crit in Pt. Pleasant, NJ where I was a corner
marshal.... didn't make it, though.  Dislocated his shoulder & ended his
season, but did it ever *look* cool!

Mark (still haven't figured out how to do it on my tandem) Hickey