Polo in the News

HAHA

I was waiting for someone to post that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjAyQzjBmhE&feature=player_embedded

**Who would have thunk it - Stephen Fry; maybe we can get him to a tourney?
**

** Stephen **
But, er, there are people on tall bikes to this day who re-enact, sort of, tourneys – you know, like jousting with lances on bikes.
**Alan **
It really does look dangerous.
**Stephen **
Yeah. Highly. We used to do it at school, we used to do what was called ‘quad hockey' which is like polo, only on bikes. You use a hockey stick and a ball, and you just go round on…
**Bill **
On quad bikes?
**Stephen **
No, not on quad bikes. In a quad, in a quadrangle.
**Bill **
In a quadrangle? You were playing hockey in a quadrangle?
**Stephen **
But yeah, like…
**Bill **
You had a very different, sort of, schooling to…
**Stephen **
Why? How is that different?
**Lee **
In my school we used to set fire to cars. In an octangle.
**Bill **
We were in a gravel pit with a dead bat.
**Alan **
We just played quiddich.
**Stephen **
There you are.
**Alan **
It was alright I suppose

http://sites.google.com/site/qitranscripts/transcripts/7x05

I really like this little piece about hell's belles. it's a super enthusiastic and positive account of a first time spectator. cool!

http://blogs.people.co.uk/cycling/2011/10/hells-belles.html?

I had a long chat with him explaining the rules and stuff, nice fella...

Shame it's so badly written as to be unreadable.

You're unreadable...

I must admit I did see a few people wandering around with broken wristswrists, and that side of it did worry me ever so slightly.

Well done Ham sandwich, your putting people off polo now, however by 'few', he means one

You're unreadable...

And you're unmentionable.

Well done Ham sandwich, your putting people off polo now, however by 'few', he means one

Thankfully, he obviously hadn't seen Bidou!

What's Autumnal weather?

And why does he keep refering to our sticks as mallets?

mallets is what they are.

Yours is a club.

broom

So he can sweep the balls into the goal?

broom with scoop attachment

A poop scoop? Strange, I wouldn't expect someone to have one of those unless they owned a dog.

it's an unusual stick

EHBPC from stoked on fixed. http://www.sofbonlinemag.com/2011/09/stoked-on-fixed-bikes-online-mag-free.html

Nice pic B

the guy from the magazine was at hells belles, but i dont remember him taking it, i thought it was a diff guy.

Louis / Joni / John H. I think its time you owned up lets not let this go too far eh.

undercover

busted

scum.

didn't know where else to put it Joe, you posted it in about 15 other thread on the forum. Deleted for spam.