Bike Polo in today's Guardian

aidan .........Mr Smith! my boyfriend beats me!

and what do you want me to do about it? kick him in the nuts? or kick you in the nuts for being so wet?

you love it you sllaaag!

andrewleitch86 Some chavs through a pretty big stone at my wheels when I was riding through Redcar, near Middlesbrough, last week. Does that count as bike polo?

What the hell were you doing in redcar? That's near where i'm from, sort of.

le car [quote]winston It's a great article...can only lead to more teams springing up so you'll have more out of towners to play against.

Typically, it's poorly researched though....I thought it was Ross of Brixton cycles (amongst others) who kick-started the urban hard-court polo scene in London at least two years ago....

Indeed, Ross, Keith, and some other realengers used to play somewhere south of the river... I don't know if theirs was that close to the NYC version we play now (mostly fixed gear, mallet tossing, foot down etc...)[/quote]

Ross and Wee Scott started us playing exactly the same version (ie US rules) a couple of years ago. I think Ross had picked it up while living on the West coast. Valentine's day alleycat 2006 was a multi day event - first day teams of three racing, second day a polo championship. My team came second so I remember it! I also remember that my leg of the race was about 30 miles in 2 hours - the name tough love should have warned me.

asm [quote]andrewleitch86 Some chavs through a pretty big stone at my wheels when I was riding through Redcar, near Middlesbrough, last week. Does that count as bike polo?

What the hell were you doing in redcar? That's near where i'm from, sort of.[/quote]

good lord, i'm from markse. i'd never recommend riding any bike you take pride in round that neck of the woods. a mate and me were mugged for his saracen back when we was teens. i just stood there gob smacked with my crap raleigh and an arm full of charcoal. hahaha!

back to the topic, according to the guff on the C4 'bite' site, the video from sunday should be up next tuesday. while i want to see vic and yorgo and us all on a video, i am going to guess that it's going to be really, really lame. ha!

im a bit pissed off that they have taken something WE do...which has stemmed from our love of riding BIKES! and used it for a fuck car advert.....WANKERS!!!!

who cares, those chics were well fit! ;)you should get some of that action aidan to calm you down a bit :p

maybe i should......but i still think there wankers.....dont know why they think they have the right to link bike polo...with a car.
ohh yeah im not as shallow as to be distracted by fit women...and ignore my point.

aidan
ohh yeah im not as shallow as to be distracted by fit women

Really? Why on earth not? ;-)

Just the boys, then?

The same thing has been going on for ages, take the adverts for a small car (either a kia or a coursa) "Rip curl" car, rip off of surf culture. Some nissan x trail where the car is being used as a skate board, because it's an urban 4x4, it only because it is people who want to buy these dull cars brand new want to kid themselfs that they are not dull.

yeah your right.....but its fucking annoying when its this close to home.

Hang on - you guys going to be featured in a car advert? Did you sign a model release form? Cause if not and they air it you should go knocking for some money....

Yeah plus my modeling agent will get pissed off because I am meant to be on an exclusive deal with him.

photoben Hang on - you guys going to be featured in a car advert? Did you sign a model release form? Cause if not and they air it you should go knocking for some money....

thats what i was thinking....im sure there had to be some signing of some contracts

God that 'bite' thing is horrible and i used to work for the production company that made it! ashamed!