Polo in the News

that's hot mike.

no smile™

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"Chunk are even sponsoring a team in the Bike Polo championships held in London this August."

Really ??????

we're hoping to sponsor the FFF. and of course the BRBPC. mo' fuckas.

oh yeah andy. i've got another hoody for ya. you chunk pimp. :D

oh yeah andy. i've got another hoody for ya. you chunk pimp. :D

Magic !! My lady was telling me how much she like's my one and that I should get another.

What's that from Rik?

Check the line out under the pic of Yorgo ... 'the best hook to draw guys in' ... sounds like he's giving away his pulling secrets.

old material from some blog, quite old me thinks

looks like Time Out from the font and layout

ah ah time out NYC 2 years ago I think. (I measure time from facial hair styling)

And the orange front tire...

yeah in fact orange front tyre means first polo experiences (first "in New York they..." quotes too), so end of 2006 I think, or early 2007.
Anyway when do we get to see the Al-Arabya feature? The french cameraman had some wacky ideas on saturday...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kv0d0/Meet_the_British/ - Hardcourt mono-cycle polo in the 60s (70s?). Around the 30 minute mark.

"Polo on mono-cycles??? hmm really"

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http://www.arte.tv/de/Kultur-entdecken/tracks/2638028.html (found by avantxgard)

They were talking about unicycle polo on a Red Dwarf repeat just now. No footage though.

Love The Bit Where Its Bikes Vs Horses

http://www.arte.tv/de/Kultur-entdecken/tracks/2638028.html

Only just saw the arte piece.

Jeez, Roxy ... what can I say ... its like as a portrait of bike polo with your travesty in Oxford at the centre.

Bike VS horse thing is a film I produced. On at the BFF NYC next week

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Thx....

just flicking through WAD No.41 and there's a spread (page 74-75) on fixed gear bikes with the following paragraph:

ahem

*Fixed Wheel Chukka
London is europe's fixed-wheel capital, notably thanks to Fixed Gear London, a bunch of riders who love their bikes more than their mums and believe the "smooth" and "elegant" fixed-wheel to be the most adaptive bike for urban traffic. Also in London, a Frenchman called Yorgo Tloupas, who founded the magazine "Intersection", has become a fixed-wheel ambassador. He's even created a version of polo in which horses are replaced by bikes ad grass by a bit of urban tarmac. (The Mallets are made using ski poles with a bit of gas piping stuck in the end). This new polo requires real control and skill. both of bike and ball.
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yorgo created polo?

yeah, you see, he took polo, yeah, the one with horses, innit, and, like, took them away and put peeps on bikes, innit. then he, uh, like, made them ride in circles on some urban, er, tarmac. innit. bosh!

with this new sport the ambassador is really spoiling us, no? hahahahaha