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If I have a bike with a driver and then a gunner on it, like a SM assault bike or an Eldar Vyper jetbike, if the unit takes one wound, can I decide which person to allocate that wound to? Could I kill the driver and just have the bike immobilized but the gunner still firing his heavy weapon? Or do I have to kill the gunner and let the driver keep on driving the now-useless (without its heavy weapon) bike?

An attack bike is a 2 wound model and therefore no model is removed from it until both wounds are gone at which time the whole model is removed from play.

Fallanir wrote:If I have a bike with a driver and then a gunner on it, like a SM assault bike or an Eldar Vyper jetbike, if the unit takes one wound, can I decide which person to allocate that wound to?

Neither of the units you mentioned work like that.

An attack bike is a single model with two wounds.
A Vyper is a vehicle.

In neither case do you hit the crew individually.

I believe the confusion is arising from p53 of the BRB which says a bike may fire one weapon for each rider on the bike (which might confusingly imply that the 2 wounds on an attack bike represents the 2 riders, and thus losing a wound constitutes losing a rider)

I presume that it does not work like that, as Ramses and insaniak have already pointed out.