Cycle-ball (Radball)

I'm in. For shits and giggles.

I know it's not polo, but I bet this thread would get more people if it was in the polo section (pretty much eveyone who's expressed interest plays polo!)

don't worry I'm not interested in playing!

Bring the ball tomorrow or on Sunday chukker.

I noticed that circus bikes are mentioned in this post. Does anyone know where i can purchase a acrobatic cycle (circus bike). I have contacted unicycle france which is a major circus suppliers. They advised me that there was a supplier of second hand bikes i could find if i searched for a german supplier called walter. I have up to now been unable to find this supplier or any other apart from one in australia. Can anyone help?

Like this?

^ road legal.

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I noticed that circus bikes are mentioned in this post. Does anyone know where i can purchase a acrobatic cycle (circus bike). I have contacted unicycle france which is a major circus suppliers. They advised me that there was a supplier of second hand bikes i could find if i searched for a german supplier called walter. I have up to now been unable to find this supplier or any other apart from one in australia. Can anyone help?
You're after walther not walter.

http://www.fahrrad-walther.de/

There's a few other companies that ypou can try too:
http://www.radsport-langenberg.de/
http://www.otoupalik-bikes.cz/

And to keep the insult count up;

UTFS you fucking cunting fuck cunt.

^ road legal.

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Because it's direct drive it doesn't need any brakes to ride on the road.

Thankyou.

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Just found this while talking about polo rules, it's last years World Cup finals. Radball looks really sweet, I'm amazed all the fixie-hipsters haven't jumped on it. I'd love to give it a go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRgFG90fmHI

As I said above:

Radball is great, but as a well-established indoor sport that requires quite a lot of props and is probably much more difficult to learn than polo, I doubt it's ever going to rival polo's burgeoning popularity. It's just not easy enough to get into.

It's been around for a long time and tends to be found in clubs that also do 'artistic cycling' ("Kunstradfahren" in German), the discipline that is practised in the recent much-reposted video of the junior European champions Carla and Henriette Hochdorfer.

These players tend to learn the sport from an early age, maybe five or six, in parallel with artistic cycling. I think in these clubs they do years of balance exercises. It takes a lot of commitment. Hardcourt polo is a lot more accessible.

Some insane skills around 1:20 in the world cup footage, until they gave away a goal..

Cycle Ball made sport picture of the day on the Guardian, watch video in the caption insane skills!

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/picture/2013/nov/25/sport-picture-of-the-day-cycle-ball

Was totally unaware of this sport until I saw this and then found this thread..

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thats how polo should look
less contact more bike skillz

Are those bikes porn or anti?

This just came up on my instagram feed and now a whole new world has been presented... I'm glad there's a thread for it

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgfdCgljOLZ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Would ride

Supposedly rad ball is so niche that basically if you can get a team together you can ride at the world champs up here in Glasgow next year.

Think ima try make a bike before then.