Polo Bikes

How many Yates machines are their on here? 3rd or 4th I've seen? I remember a green one with a bendy seat tube
Here's mine: been riding it 18months or so

It's my mountainbike so not designed as a polo machine though here's it being used when the polo bike was bust. (should possibly look for a better photo)

What's the geometry of yours set up as Harvey?
Technical Trailbike
69deg HA
73deg SA
605mm TT (for 50mm stem and wide bars)
15.7" CS
12" BB
pretty 853 tubes
Set-up for an 80-100mm fork - I hate the soggy feeling of long travel forks.

"that colnago is fuckin beootiful"

What's the geometry of yours set up as Harvey?

74º seat tube
75º Head tube
BB height 11+ inches
Wheel base 38 inches
Reynolds 525 tubing

get v-brakes harvey!

:) I'm thinking about it , i was worried about modulation and my tendency to go over the bars. Is anyone running dual brakes and fixed ?

set them up right, they have better modulation than that flexible caliper contraption.

just don't pull it enough to send you over the bars.

(pull the lever less)

+1

TBH i haven't over -endoed since the Apples Fen boy game at the 1st Cambridge tourney

I cut the old bosses off the forks coz they were for 26' wheels I will braze them back higher up

are those actually your teeth?

I did a forward roll landed on my feet

i was worried about modulation and my tendency to go over the bars

coughs

If you set them up right and don't piss around with the set-up then forget to change it back you can easily avoid a broken arm.

The crack with just a little too much torque. Although, when that happens, I just leave it in and it works fine. Still, they're a pain in the ass.

^this

I also had a brief look for metal cups to replace the plastic ones but couldn't find any.

Contact Shimano directly and they'll probably send you a metal version, they do the UN54 with both, I believe they were made for different markets (although I've always had a random plastic or metal one included when ordering online).

The plastic ones are better in my opinion (as long as they don't snap)... the metal cups are more difficult to remove/install and creak from time to time in my experience.

They stopped making plastic ones, the metals ones you can still find around are old stock. AFAIK.

Problem Solvers currently do replacement metal ones.

But really, the plastic ones are just fine.

On closer look, there is indeed the dreaded crack :( It was removed from a previous bike and although it should be no prob to put it back as it is now but will be most grateful if anyone has replaced a previous bb and have a used one to spare :)

set up looks tight harvey, really like it!

Hey, check it out! Another fugging Pompino, cool!

Just needs it's new boots now...

strip the paint off.

walk it to polo.

Do you even play polo, Matt? :O