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you forgot your mallet, bro.
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like turning left and pushing gears 3 times too high for polo?
Your gear must be tiny, track gears tend to be only twice polo gears.
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I imagine riding in a group at fucking fast speeds does a lot for your bike skills, confidence, willingness to take/give contact... And probably other things.
The bigger question is whether they'll think it's anything more than a hipster drinking game. Like it used to be. weeps
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Your gear must be tiny, track gears tend to be only twice polo gears.
Puny mortal! Apollo runs the track gearing of the gods!
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Listen, people. Bike polo is SERIOUS. We must leave the culture of drinking and dope smoking behind if we ever want to turn pro. C'mon!
nerged
even if sarcastic you are giving people ideas...
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I'm home working so I've been reading all this and feeling heartened by the strong commitment coming through that it's about community first and foremost. Makes me want to play again for the first time in a year.
Just as a general thing, if you want people to stick around. Be nice. Drink more. Be nice again. And stop talking about bikes.
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new, young players that ride track who are fit and have fantastic bike skills...
The bigger question is whether they'll think it's anything more than a hipster drinking game. Like it used to be. weeps
I think that's the attraction, it's more fun than track racing... It'll be a downtime, fun activity... Some of them will get good, they're already uber competitive...
Listen, people. Bike polo is SERIOUS. We must leave the culture of drinking and dope smoking behind if we ever want to turn pro. C'mon!
^ 100%
I was a track racer from when I started highschool until the February of my first year at uni, when I realised that I didn't have the money to run a car, pay for track sessions, entry fees, racing licence, beer...
..and serious cycling was lower down the priority list than:
Private time with new girlfriend
Non-private time with new girlfriend
Socialising and drinking
Lectures and actual work.
Geeking about online.I started polo after graduating and it was awesome to combine something that used to be my primary passtime with the passtime I'd adopted and grown to love at university, drinking.
Track racing was always a very social thing for me. When I was in the U12, U14 and U16 age categories I was in the Maindy Flyers, so there'd be 30-odd kids all going racing for the weekend from the same city to the same race in minibusses and cars and we'd do stuff like bowling on Saturday night. Week-long training camps at Calshot were awesome too. When I hit 16, I joined CC Cardiff and the racing was more serious but because it was a smaller team it was easier to organise stuff and we didn't have any of the two-faced bullies we had in the 'Flyers (the kind who'd grow up to be massive jocks at uni). Tl;Dr etc etc/
I've never been disciple of 420 but I definitely drink less after 2 years in 5G than my first few months in Polo Erectus.
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csb
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Erectus were a good drinking man's team.
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^^^ track standing was always the one thing I wish I could do when I started polo...
like turning left and pushing gears 3 times too high for polo?
You won't be taking the piss when they're dicking you on court...
Playing fixed and being able to track stand was a definite headstart.
I was probably incapable of embarrassing anyone but myself on court until I got a bike with suitable geometry. Now that we have some competition in the marked for budget polo bikes this can happen a lot sooner.
I imagine riding in a group at fucking fast speeds does a lot for your bike skills, confidence, willingness to take/give contact... And probably other things.
My preferred disciplines on track were Keirin and Madison, so I support that correlation. Keirin definitely prepared me well for polo as a [regulated-]contact sport and gave me something to contribute to a team whilst I developed my ball control.
As polo is quite an erratic activity in terms of exertion, short- to mid- distance track racers, BMXers and 4-cross MTB racers are all well-suited to polo.
People can learn bike handling, but knowing the right place to be on court and using that to your advantage takes a certain type of brain.
Drop some flyers off with football teams I say.
I disagree, footballers we've had trying polo have been pretty good at riding into space and pausing with the ball to plan ahead, but the aptitude for tracking 3 -5 other players simultaneously and predicting their responses to your next move (considering the limits of bike handling)... That's probably go more in common with Ice-Hockey.
I'm home working so I've been reading all this and feeling heartened by the strong commitment coming through that it's about community first and foremost. Makes me want to play again for the first time in a year.
Just as a general thing, if you want people to stick around. Be nice. Drink more. Be nice again. And stop talking about bikes.
The community is what will sway someone towards polo who has another form of competitive cycling to go back to, but I'd suggest that most of us already have non-bike drinking buddies and polo is ticking the "activity" box, not primarily the "drinking" box.
Polo scenes provide 4 key things:- Having fun on bikes with other people
- Drinking
- Loads of bike-fixing expertise and tools available
- Drinking.
In looking forward to seeing what happens, I know a few of them are looking forward to playing this summer...
Awesome.
- Having fun on bikes with other people
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Puny mortal! Apollo runs the track gearing of the gods!
Bitch, please... Polo Gear thread>>>>>
Erectus were a good drinking man's team.
Do you mean
"Erectus was a good team which appealed to the drinking man"
or
"Despite combining polo with drinking, Erectus were a surprisingly ok team"
?
csb
Me >>>>> Back to work.
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I mean playing on a team with you drove me to drink.
#;)
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Fun polo and fixed gear thing in Berlin, in March:
Berlin Bike Polo Days Bench Minor Tournament 21.-23. March 2014
Registration starts at 01.02.2014 at 19:00 GMT. 64 player limit.
Registration at: www.fixed-days.com
Registration fee is 10€. with another 5€ for a t-shirt (provide t-shirt size when registering).
Times:
Friday: 9:00 - 19:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 20:00
Sunday: 10:00 - 18:00Flyer:
http://www.berlin-bikepolo.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Bikepolo_FlyerA5.pdfSome of the fixei stuff from last year:
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There are (by my super quick and imprecise count) over 400 city-based clubs registered on LOBP. Five years ago there were (by my guesstimate) less than 100 in the world.
If we're talking about the "explosive rise" of polo.
How many of those clubs on lobp still play? From my own knowledge, Edinburgh don't, Newcastle don't, Aberdeen occasionally, Copenhagen don't.
At-least up here there has been a decline in interest over the past few years.
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Glasgow have taken over the Scottish reigns I think.
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