Polo Bikes

super sweet, us londies should organise a trip up and do an alldayer after Karlsruhe. Has Dom played there yet?

no; he came a couple of times before the court was built, but havent really seen him in a while.

i know he's been away. I need to call him anyway.

I put a pair of these, http://www.discountbicycles.co.uk/biz/product.php?xProd=4627, north road style bars on a few weeks ago. I really like them. They bring my position back a bit, without me whacking my knees off the bars when sprinting out of the saddle (which happened with a super-short stem), and seem to make playing 'back-hand' (any other term for crossing over to you non-mallet-hand side?) a bit easier. Hopping felt weird at first, but now seems okay.

They look shit though.

Are they Reece 'used to be round the corner by the polo court' handlebars?

Just picked up one of these bad boys for goalie duties... You're welcome to use it for the BM, Mrak...

Are they Reece 'used to be round the corner by the polo court' handlebars?

No, they're 'etc', another cheapy brand, but less cheap than those in the picture.

I'm blasting a hole through that this weekend for sure.

Hehehe... :D

They look sweet, Max...

they do look sweet max, i'm with cam though. :)

My only bike and polo bike

looks good ali

did you get that stem from Halfords?

Are those your B-Mix forks?!

What happenend to the disc brakes?

did you get the stem from halfords?

ha! was about 5 bucks from a second hand store. I wanted to run flat bars for the shifter.

As for the rear disk! I went to buy a bb7 at a store here and the centerlock fixing on the hub has been bashed and dented, probably when I was flying. So I have to stick with V's for now. The forks are from my Bmix, there really short (less than 380mm axle to crown).

can we find the geek house bike somewhere ? (26" right ?)

looks rad! did you get the twist shift?

cheers max,
Got the new shifter for it today. Its a nexus 8spd twist shift, have heard you can use them with alfine so i thought i would give it a go. My alfine rapid fire shifter got pretty trashed.

i've put some bmx cranks on my polo bike, but the q factor is insane.

is there a company who sells narrower splined axles than normal?

i think the axle i have is 155mm..

ok nevermind, i think 155mm is wider than normal and i need to get a standard axle.

What cranks are they?

A Q factor of ~170mm, measured from one outside pedal boss face to the other, is considered narrow for bmx cranks (without modification). This is still generally wider than a lot of road and mountain bike cranks.

howlllllll!!!!! fucking sweet!