Birmingham Bike Polo Chat & BS Thread

Neil is the only person who crashed in to me and fixed my bike. Still works fine now. Was a double tap but i will let you off..heh

If nobody tells me I'll never know...

Mallet under front wheel is a no no, double tap..victim of a t bone..nope..oppressor yep.

But who's the victim of a T-Bone?
The person stopped who's wheel I skid into?

Skidding to block is ok in my book. T bones are fully intentional, skidding to block is impulse i would reckon, a T bone is pure deviance.

But who's the victim of a T-Bone?
The person stopped who's wheel I skid into?

T-Boning is a really vague rule, which doesn't really work. We all stop in front of other players to hinder their progress, the onus is on the attacking player to move around the hinderer.

I think it jsut means 'no riding into people at right angles', which is a bit easier to call.

Although, if you keep skipping into people at right angles, you should get a front brake, or slow down.

+1 for what dan said,
If person 'a' stationary and person 'b' is moving, it's up to 'b' to maneuver, a bit like basket ball.
If you were stationary but back into somones path, that's a reverse t bone as you're moving.
If you skidded into stationary people a few times the ref would probably ask you to tap (single or double).

First picture looks like Andy is hiding his beer from a disapproving Uncle Lucas.

YouTube - best of malcolm tucker

At 5:12

"ILL PIGS, ILL PIGS, CAN I COME IN? DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE HAIR ON YOUR CHINNY CHIN CHIN."

LOVE Malcolm Tucker. I'm going to use the Carrot and Stick approach...Jamie is even better, though.

Fuck, he's such a ledge. You've both just gone up in my estimates!

Boris Bike Goes Xtreme on Vimeo

One for Si and Neil...this guys an idiot!

Ha, that crash is pretty funny =)

Fair play though, those bikes are heavy!

'Stupidity on totally inadequate equipment' props to that, more props as its a hire bike.. =)

I've only ever hired a bike once. In Amsterdam. The stupidest thing I did was nearly fall into a canal/smash into my friend. What a fail! I wonder if anyone's turned upto polo on a Boris bike yet? Blatantly....

Last hire bike i had went back, personalised....2 of us left a tad sharpish....

I wonder if anyone's turned upto polo on a Boris bike yet? Blatantly....

A few people had a knock around at the London Open last year.

Knew it! Please give your feedback for ATRI while you're hear :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7i0aylmCHQ

Dead neat

Si, you find us MTB stuff you'd like us to show and we'll happily try and fit it in...post it in the Burningham thread.

Cool..John Tomac..top of the list i think... =) I'll get on it..could be a long list but I will narrow it down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EisON0jlI1g

I'll try and get my hands on this...

Well done to Jess and Stu for hustling some new players. Hopefully they'll all become regulars and Brum polo will move on to the next level. I saw some promising plays/players, especially considering they were using borrowed bikes/mallets.

Apologies for rolling up late with my war-face on shouting at everyone to get organised. I could only stay for an hour and wanted to get some games in!

I think it's sensible to continue doing what we did tonight and have an even distribution of beginners/slow games, fast games, team games, and grand-shuffle random games. I'm not clever enough to think of a fool-proof/automated system for sorting it, but did it work okay tonight? I was only there for an hour, and got three games, but 2 of 3 were really good, so I was happy. Thoughts?