NE London Bike Polo: Wednesdays: Mitchison Road N1 / Weekends:Hackney Downs E5

Yes there will be. Mid-day/early afternoon arrivals. You can always check the forum tomorrow morning, but most guaranteed that there will be folks at Downham on the longest day of the year!

hey I in
leaving Oxford nowish so should be a three four hours
(have to head home and get my mallet and dump shit off first)

In for 2pm

Me too.

Me and Aidan (Turd) in too... 2ish?

Thanks all for a warm welcome to the Downham polo pitch and for showing me how it's played, North London style. I especially enjoyed taking Mark down in one of the games. (just some friendly rivalry between Albertans and Saskatchewanians there...). I trust my head-over-the-handlebars-nearly-kissed-the-asphalt in my final game was suitable entertainment for the solstice; really, I was just making an offering to the god of pavement on this, the longest day of the year.

I rode over to the pitch all the way from near Paddington on the canal towpaths, a scenic little route. Soon after I got to the polo pitch, my cousin called to ask where his house keys were, so I got to ride all the way home and then back again (which I did on the road by Kings Cross or it would have taken forever). Then of course there was the ride home too, past all the cricket mayhem at Lords, so it was 40+ km on that little folding bike today.

I got a few pics and a couple of video clips but I'll wait to see Will's before I decide if I have anything of merit to add.

thanks again, and you're all welcome to come play with us in Calgary any time. See http://groups.google.com/group/calgarybikepolo?pli=1 for grass-court or http://www.calgarybikepolo.com for hard-court. Some of us play both (the more polo, the better!).

cheers
Stewart

Nice one, Stew. Glad to have another player on the court. Have a good flight back home. And look forward to seeing your photos!

Short YouTube - London bike polo
of two quick goals in succession during our Solstice play.

My pictures are on Ovi. Just a few, since I only had my phone camera. But if you visit my Ovi album you'll also see pics from our Ramsay Bowl tourney last summer.

Thanks again for a great day of polo!

ha, i didn't hit my rim in that shot!

First time ever.

fuck off jade goody.

Hah! How long you been holding onto that one?

i've used it before, before she absconded to the Bahamas for her retirement.

Hey guys. This is Cliff. That American guy who showed up out of nowhere last Sunday. Thanks for being patient with me, showing me the ropes and loaning me gear so I could play a game. I am in the process of getting my ride street/polo worthy. Anyone know a good cheap place to get parts fast around hackney? I would patrol ebay but I am in a hurry as I want to get practicing so I wont be such a wet blanket next time. I need a ski pole, some of those fat mountain bike pedals, some smaller bars (or tools to make my own), and a 22T sprocket (that would put me at 48t/22t, im at 48t/15t).

Cliff, good to meet you sunday, I have a 22t sproket going, you can have it.

Cliff, your 48t chainring and that 22t sprocket will give you a gear ratio of 57.6 gear-inches, which should be a good compromise between a good polo gear and a good road gear.

In other news, I got home to Calgary last night and then this evening went out for the weekly grass-court polo match. Now I've got bleeding wounds on three of four limbs. Who says only hard-court is hard-core?

Polo Saturday? Downham? 3ish? Who's in?

No one? Meh. I'll read.

what? There's better be some polo happening...

Adrienne and I are going to grab some food and head to London Fields for a pic-a-nic. We'll be going to polo bikes and mallets. If games spontaneously start, some one give us a shout.

So we're playing today right?

What time are y'all playing today? Might make the hike from west to come play.

im in for later, 1-2pm

1-2 pm sounds good to me.

probably in