Polo Rules

possibly less so. no levers, no cables.

5-0 i think. BD scored all 5.

Yes, that was a 5-0, not sure a 20min game would have change anything for Chicago this day. ;o)

i would just hate to fall forward and get bar to chest. ouch

It's health and safety gone mad.

According to the BPAGB...

I can't understand how this question about radbike can take so much importance on this board.

These guys get 1:1 ratio and fuckin' skills. you get probably way less chances to get hurt by any of them than against any random drunk player you can cross at every tourney.

I can't understand how INSERT ANYTHING can take so much importance on this board.

That should never surprise you.

I can't understand how this question about radbike can take so much importance on this board.

I can't understand how you can be so surprised that such a question received so little attention on this board. There's less than a page about it, which means we place a lot less importance on it than, say, Jono memes. Like this one:

Define 'importance'

These guys get 1:1 ratio and fuckin' skills. you get probably way less chances to get hurt by any of them than against any random drunk player you can cross at every tourney.

But to give you a serious answer, the argument "it's ok because it's less dangerous than something else dangerous" isn't a great one.

I completely agree, the three players I saw in Germany, would almost certainly be fine. But the same bike in the hands of "random drunk player"?

But the same bike in the hands of "random drunk player"?

Drunk players may be random, but by no means rare at a polo tourney.

But the same bike in the hands of "random drunk player"?

Any bike in the hand of random drunk player is dangerous, let's be honest.

Is it Friday yet?

Any bike in the hand of random drunk player is dangerous, let's be honest.

According to that logic we could allow any bike then, bullhorns etc...

All I'm saying is I wouldn't want to go shoulder to shoulder with someone on a radball bike (unless they were very skilled like the Germans), as one small mistake from them and I would land directly on the bar. Get that in the stomach and you could be properly fucked.

Why do you assume it'd be a mistake from the radball player?
And why do you assume you'd land on the bar?

Because it would be pointing directly at my chest/stomach in that situation, rather than at my bike (for flats/risers).

It doesn't really matter who makes the mistake, it's just an example.

According to that logic we could allow any bike then, bullhorns etc...

All I'm saying is I wouldn't want to go shoulder to shoulder with someone on a radball bike (unless they were very skilled like the Germans), as one small mistake from them and I would land directly on the bar. Get that in the stomach and you could be properly fucked.

That was your logic, not mine.

I once got a brake lever in the kidneys. It was really quite painful, much more painful, and probably potentially more dangerous, than a bigger handle-bar.

But a brake lever is required, a radball handlebar isn't.

If there was a safer way of way of braking we should also look at that...

Anyway, I'm not saying we should ban them, but at the same time I don't think we should allow them for reasons such as "something else is more dangerous", or "but the players who have them now are very skilled"

Clement, are you happy now? We're nearly onto a 2nd page, all on Radball bikes.

Radball bikes should not be allowed as it will blur boundaries we've worked hard to put in place.

We have set a good precedent (#IMO) to only allow bars with less than 20º of sweep (risers, flats etc.). We would be fucking that up by letting some radball players in, just because they are nice guys, not drunk, and good at radball.

I don't care how nice you are or how good you are at riding a bike sober, stick to the rules we've been working hard on for years.

i always thought it said something in the rules like: every sort of a bicicle is allowed. has this part vanished?

i would not argue with the skill of these players, i would argue with that i think
these bikes have noting dangerous on them.

1. when you get hit by handlebars is when the bike has already fallen to the ground/ is falling to the ground and you fall upon it. seeing it like that, this sort of bars is way safer than every sort of risers or flat bars.

2. regarding the position of the rider: you can't ban someone because his shoulders are not on your height! if so, you yould have to ban whether yorgo or me, because there is no way of a safe shoulder to shoulder contact.

in the end it is your tournatment and you guys have to decide.
but i would find it very sad, if someone is excluded from our game because of overly ambitious rule-making and standartisation.

According to the BPAGB...

I can't understand how this question about radbike can take so much importance on this board.

These guys get 1:1 ratio and fuckin' skills. you get probably way less chances to get hurt by any of them than against any random drunk player you can cross at every tourney.

Well, I would think this exactly why they had the rules in le vintage cycle polo. No foot retention, mandatory fixed wheels, and no brakes. Resulting in low speeds, extreme cautiousness and no sudden stops.

Would this be allowed?

If we liked the owner and he had mad skillz?