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love that guard, infact, love that whole bike! more photos please

Cutout on the back of the seat-tube of the pake frame, is that standard or is it a diy job?

just looked again, are my eyes playing tricks on me?

[armchair engineer]
Builder maybe used brass instead of silver? Stainless couplers need silver.
[/armchair engineer]

shame, sexily finished bike

milwaukee has 26 on the front?

My bike's looking super-ratty, more bogging than ever.

Tigged on some new dropouts and seatstays, Still need to file the toptangs and smooth the dropout faces before painting.

here's a wee photie.

There are (by my super quick and imprecise count) over 400 city-based clubs registered on LOBP. Five years ago there were (by my guesstimate) less than 100 in the world.

If we're talking about the "explosive rise" of polo.

How many of those clubs on lobp still play? From my own knowledge, Edinburgh don't, Newcastle don't, Aberdeen occasionally, Copenhagen don't.

At-least up here there has been a decline in interest over the past few years.

fuck off higher centre of gravity gives you more polo speed stability! and makes you more attractive

This stem length argument is a load of bollocks. Has noone ever noticed that tall people seem to overwhelmingly like long stems and short people seem to like short stems?

We're all trying to ride frames designed to have the front wheel as close as possible to our feet leaving us with all roughly the same toptube lengths despite our differing heights, hence the stem lengths to compensate.

Yes, there are outliers, but they're dafties which can be ignored. What next, are we going to argue on saddleheight?

948mm saddle to bb, ftw! It'll make your bike handle better.

http://vimeo.com/72459808

haha! just spotted this. fantastic!

Edit: Woah and that london open video is great. just watched. people are playing so quick

heavier bases are better. they don't move around half as much.

We used scaffold pole and scaffold corners for ours, with only plastic uprights, they've been used for tournaments into the double figures and are a piece of piss to erect and take down. They are however a fiver a corner if price is an issue.

Wait, is that just some chancer getting people to pay to turn up to throwins?

We always found, we got a lot more new players from the "polo, wtf is that" comments at bike events than anywhere else.

A jersey that could be used for racing/non-polo things saying "UK bike polo" on it?

I'd certainly have one.

Also, this!

Is 'Hardcourt Bike Polo CC' a LDN-only affair?
better to say "UK bike polo" than "Hardcourt Bike Polo CC"? Something all encompassing rather than a made-up cycling club?

Colin
and err ... cough skinsuits? ;)

Yep. Max's first was terrible, seat-tube about 2 degrees off vertical in the lateral direction, pulling the rest of the frame out of alignment. He did replace it, but his response is what got me.

We measured it with string, a ruler and an angle-finder, sent him photo's of us measuring and his response was "I don't have the tools to measure for that" WTF?

Mine was terrible.

One finger braking bro. You'll get used to it and then never go back.

could you not just spend the weekend talkin' proper northern like, t'em people fromt' north?

Dave's spent all his money on heading the british courier champs in liverpool this weekend.

I've been offered some work starting on the 24th, I'd be an idiot to turn it down.
#flakey scots

I'm going to try and make it down to hang out on friday/saturday and play throwins if possible.

^^^^

Bij Twijfel altijd doen.

Yep, in PM to you Adam.

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I have Z's on my mtb, I briefly tried the on them the polo bike. I could feel a difference in sole stiffness between Z's and Aliums when I tried them back to back, but the difference was minimal. I would go for Aliums if that was the choice instead. Less chance of pedal-strike as they're smaller and theyre probably cheaper

No idea, not weighed them; but they don't feel too much heavier than what came off.

a wee bike upgrade. Home-made handlebars

Been running these for about 3 months now, I got fed up of not being able to get my brake levers far enough inboard of my grips - handlebars always seem to flare too soon - so I'm using these, 22mm diameter alu pipe throughout, with a shim for the bar clamp so can run the lever as far in as I want.

I put a little sweep into them too: it took a six foot scaff pole and my bodyweight on the end of my pipe bender make the bends so I have no worry about their strength. If I ever make any more they'll be using a far thinner swg of tubing, I think I was a bit too over-cautious.