Polo Bikes

I think if poloboy has old-sized 26 3/8 or whatever rims, then the choice of tyres is quite limited,
Hence the speedway tyres being preferred over roadster tyres?

But the sames true of the french system, 700 was the mm of the wheel including tyre. Neither system was particularly standardised with companies not only making up new types, but mislabelling for economic advantage.

Anyway, was about to post almost exactly the same picture as prov... beaten too it...

Khornight you are blabbering now.

if someone's into freewheelin for polo, you could slap a rear brake on an archie, and for 199gn its a dealio!

the archie wilkinson, sans pedals. fucken love it. :D oh soz ray, i took my own pic, is that cool ;)

Matt, how much room is in those ends? Could you remove a chainlink and get the wheel closer to the seattube?

I really think this is one of the best polo bikes. Right up with Hassan and Gabes swords.

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I really think this is one of the best polo bikes. Right up with Hassan and Gabes swords.

+1

what size wheels are they - 26"?

sorry lads
forgot to say all are bikes are over forty years old and are messured in inchs not mm but the speed way tyres have a nobbel tyre even on the side so that even when the bike is turning the tyre still has a grip to turn on.
we use steel rims 26 3/8 inch as the more easer to bend back in to shapeafter folding them and we also use motor bike spokes and moter bike chains as they never break from mallet hits or ball hits.
modern day rims dont hold up to a wheel folding.
the frames were made by Allin cycles ltd 57-59 whitehorse road, Croydon
we also have polo bikes from Norman cycles Asford, Kent
any come across any of them before?
the frames just never give up after 40 to 60 years of playing on them
we tried new frames they just break up the head sets or the frames snap due to a crash or two.
nice polo bikes you have lads and ladys have to say.

if you are riding wheels 27 inchs the polo bike is long think of polo bike like a small car in the city small the car easier to nip in and out of.
in grass polo the there is five players thats ten lads or ladys on a pitch it can get busy.
but if can ride 27 inch fair play what size is your peddel cranks?

165 or 170 usually

since swapping to plain guage i've decreased the number of spokes i go through, but they all snap at the shoulder now, so those above should be good. bit pricey if you go to 48h though

I've just rebuilt my polo wheels with those Sapim Strong spokes. The 2.3mm section is pretty long, it runs past the first 2 crosses of the spoke on 3x pattern. The wheels are a lot heavier now, and when building up the front on a BMX hub is was pretty hard work to bend the spokes into place.

We'll see how they last!

interesting. did they fit through the hub ok?

Polo boy, I think I'm perhaps the only person running 27s and you may note my bike is not polo enough to be in this thread... yet :-)

I like your metaphor with the wheel base of a car in the city... I ride more like a dumper truck, don't think smaller wheels will change that :-)

Actually when you think about it, the points of contact of the wheel will be the same distance appart no matter what the wheels, it's the frame that decides the distance between wheel (I'm right aren't I?) all my frames have been designed for 27s so I've always used 27s...

yeah, fit through fine

ok this is going to sound major niev but who makes nice 650c tyres
I used up the ones we had lying around the shop and need a new one
No other oxford shop has them and I actually had to put up with some idiot telling me I did not know what I was talking about because that size did not exist

does anyone have advice on what would be a better tyre than conti
their the only ones can get through shop and their not all that

ftw!

fu*%*ng hell that thing is obscene

;620670']Matt, how much room is in those ends? Could you remove a chainlink and get the wheel closer to the seattube?

I really think this is one of the best polo bikes. Right up with Hassan and Gabes swords.

the rear wheel (700c's dt) is as far forward as it can go as there is one of them little bar doo dahs between the rear stays behind the bb. frame ends must be about 40-45mm.

not bad for £70. i love how mike didn't believe me. hahaha!

http://archie-wilkinson.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66&products_id=193

cro-mo steel, nothing too fancy. you might not want a speedway fork, a little too straight for a diddy bike. thanks for all the compliments, it got a fair bit of attention in mancs.

you could cut out that little bar behind the bb, and you could extend the drop outs 15mm at least with some metal work skills. as it is the drop outs are perfectly set for a 700c wheel with that bar thing (wtf is it called?!?!) in place.

if someone's into freewheelin for polo, you could slap a rear brake on an archie, and for 199gn its a dealio!

that's 199 for the whole fricken bike. woop! hey brian, one for you?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/04/19/dead.horses/index.html

:o ... :(

that's 199 for the whole fricken bike. woop! hey brian, one for you?

Me gots one... Didn't know you had one. Gonna try get it built for tomorrow.

wicked! you go for frame, or frame and forks, or whole bike?

old school is cool