London Bike Polo

Right we've had it playing with ourselves (not funny) and beating Manchester and being beaten by Kent (only because of their stoopid Speedway bikes and fancy mallets...and maybe experience) get on the Oxford tube and come and have a match with the mighty Oxford Supernova Society.

Bicyclogy will be here on 16th and 17th http://www.bicycology.org.uk/future_events/2007_summer_tour.htm
And there will be polo and it will be fun as it always is.

Ill be in LDN to ridicule the competitve geared people and get free stuff and hopefully buying a hat or 2 off of Smeear. On Saturday. Shall I bring my mallet ... anyone playing?

We are usually play on sunday but may beable to get people to do a game. Don't expect too much though we have not been playing very long and our polo events are very relaxed.

Also... TdF prologue is more than a little distracting and we may all be very very drunk and on our nice bikes.

Ok. the bicycle film festival will provide some funds for these classic machines as long as they can be used in the bike polo expo i'm planning for the filmfest.

trampsparadise, now I know who you are!!! I should've just looked at your profile.

im constructing a mullet this week,
have golf club, will destroy

and alexis the silver hat was a right pain but its done

you wanna make a fish out of a golf club? sounds like my kind of religion.

nah he means one of these

no i mean both
the fish with the hair, then attach it to a club.
every sunday should have one

but hold on - if these Herne Hill polo bikes get repaired, surely they'll want them to stay there and be used on grass right? Not to become hipster rides hitting the concrete in east london...

Mike what's that bike polo expo?
We should have a bike polo competition for the BFF - on another court maybe closer to town? Or on a blocked off street if they block one off like they just did in LA.

y

what is a hipster? i never understood...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8r0vWWCf2Y

From sunday from my phone, youtube made the quality even worse than the original mp4. Nifty little run by yorgo at the end ;)

dennis the man who runs fixedgeargallery played his first game recently here are his tips !!
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13738

This is a good one...

When swinging at the ball one should not swing the mallet higher than the handlebars.

good little vid rakan

Message from oxford person in the myspace inbox account...

Hi Brick lane

Sim from the Oxford Supernovas bike polo team calling

A few of us are coming up this weekend to see Le Tour and we thought we'd bring our mallets and see if you guys wanted a game.

Will you be on Brick Lane on Sunday from 1?

I was wondering about Jubilee Gardens by the Millennium wheel as the riders will be going past there in the morning.

Get back soon and we can arrange something. I think some of the Manchester Dropouts are around too.

Ping Ping!

Sim

I replied saying they should check out brick lane on sunday, jubilee gardens probably wouldnt work and that he/she should post here to see what other people have to say ;)

I think we could have ago the only thing is watching the stage one at the same time, may be meet a little later than one. Also make sure they know that it is sackwell street (or however it is spelt) otherwise they could be wondering around brick lane looking very confused.

It seem like they like to play on grass.

the street the court is on is brick lane.. not sackwell st.

sorry I ment junction of bricklane and shacklewell street, but it is best to send them to the correct end

I won't be around for sunday but might could squeeze in a few games sometime saturday. Would earlier or later be better?

I won't be 'round either...have fun guys

trampsparadise I won't be around for sunday but might could squeeze in a few games sometime saturday. Would earlier or later be better?

mike your one of our best players you have to come on sunday!

Smeear, Ill meet you Saturday AM for hat trading? That ok. Name a place? Pref not too near/before the prologue mallarky. And then you can show me where you lot play the game. Somewhere near Brick Lane ja?

TheBrick(Tommy) sorry I ment junction of bricklane and shacklewell street, but it is best to send them to the correct end

FYI we play on tarmac (Currys Car Park) and grass (South Park) in historic Oxford. I like both and use a fixed on the street and mtb in the park. Polo is truly sweet.

L8r chaps

i hate living out of the city.
i dont know one single other fixed rider and am dieing to play polo