Birmingham Bike Polo (Wednesday nights / Sundays - info in the thread)

Sweet

Wish i hadn't taken the easy option now :( i need a bearwood polo partner to ride into town with for motivation. Finally got my flash triggers working too so could have taken some decent pics

just need to get my bottom bracket looked at and im good to go. im knockin on your door next wednesday.

SUNDAY SERVICE 20TH SEPT 5PM CALTHORPE COURT

Birmz polo pros will be out this sunday to practice for our impending defeat(s) at the BFF on the 27th.
Everyone welcome & all bike types.

Hyper already posted this in the polo thread, but i'm bumping it up the list in order to get some new faces out to play. Usual location: calthorpe park. 5pm.

Hyper has mallets and will also sell you one for a fiver if you want to nurture it into something extra-special.

Post here if you're coming or have any questions.

I'll be there if my bike gets sorted in time...i snapped off the end of a crank bolt in my bottom bracket today. its stuck so i got to get a new bottom bracket. i just got a new one over the summer as well. fuck my life.

snapped the head off a crank bolt!?!?!? you must be eating too much spinach.

il deffo come down. wednesday was allot of fun for my first time playin.

In Stalbans so will pass. Sorz

snapped the head off a crank bolt!?!?!? you must be eating too much spinach.

This is why I tell people it is pretty much inpossible to over tighten cranks, the bolt will snap way before you could over stretch your cranks.

I find it weirder Dan, that you have managed to crack hub cones. Are you using a vice and one of those industrial cone spanners + brute force to lock of your cones? It just seems impossible otherwise.

...Hyper has mallets and will also sell you one for a fiver if you want to nurture it into something extra-special...

If I could borrow a drill again (DFP?), I'll make some thicker ends, bens set didn't have the right drill bits - I can pick up.

me fail english? that's unpossible.

it's not my cones that keep breaking, it's the locknuts. apparently this is a common phenomenon with formula et al. my wheel creeps forwards in the dropout over the course of a week or so, which can only be due to acceleration because i don't have a rear brake and only ever apply modest braking via my legs. hence i bolllock up my tracknuts to ridiculous degrees of tightness (tighter even than the grip on my wallet), which must over-load the locknuts and they crack. often they'll just crack and stay there, and gradually fall to bits. it doesn't help that i keep replacing them with whatever i can find with the same thread, which usually means they're actually weaker than what just broke.

hi, it says calthorpe park so whats it got to do with balsall heath?

Calthorpe Park is in Balsall Heath isn't it? Or the Edgbaston/Balsall Heath border.

i'd say the depths of balsall heath. if that isn't balsall heath, i don't know what is.

Calthorpe Park, but are you gonna bang tho?

its not balsall heath! its edgebaston! , minor details aside -

im gonna make an appearance to have a watch - iv not played before and my wrist is fcuked

Calthorpe park is soooo balsall heath. Its next to the notorious cheddar rd for for goodness sake.

Drill is currently occupied but Ill see if I can get it to you sometime.

another good turnout this afternoon. it's great to see everyone progressing so fast - i really want to have a 'central england' tournament/meet up with people from cambridge, oxford, manchester etc. perhaps we can make it happen when we see them this weekend. it would be good to have some new (better) players to learn from and help us develop.

i noticed 'new'dan was taking photos - any chance of posting them?

there's another Dan!?

yeah yeah ill get them up as soon as ive got them developed. i was using my 35mm, because i needed to finish a film. i only took like 10 photos. but hopefully they will be done tomorrow, and maybe get my wheel unbuckled. haha

i saw 3 geezers while i was out on bmx,i think they were going to polo... who is it thats got a one peice bar/stem combo?

Birmingham Fixed Dan List:

Pistaboy - Digbeth
On Your Bike/DWS dan - Moseley
Graffiti Artist Dan - Kings Heath
Gazey 'Buckle Wheel' Dan - Sutton

yes was fun, nice to meet some of u

only had one fall off my bike in the last year - then i had 3 in one day, nice collection of cuts an grazes! haha, need to work on my general skills, definately up for another go

hey DFP, i live in sutton, not to far from ben

How about one weekend polo session every month?