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that looks mint man, how much did the build cost you in the end?

i need to start a polo build, been meaning too for ages!

Hi Tristan,
Believe it or not, the polo beater cost me £12.50 to build. Basically that was the cost of the tyres. The rest either came out of the skip at RCB, was what I had lurking around the shed, or what I could scrounge. Just goes to show you don't need to spend a fortune or use exotic parts. I know some might turn their noses up at it, but it gave me a lot of pleasure to build, cost fook-all and got me started in polo. Might upgrade when I get a bit better at polo, but it suits me as a starter-bike ;) I've got another part-built if you're interested?

noobz confirm

Cheers. Might be a tad too big for me, being a bit short in the leg. Looking for something more like 20"-21" max, so I'm not showing an embarrassingly short amount of seat post. Thanks anyway.

That frame's kinda purdy. I might be interested myself. How small, how much?

First go at bike polo today. Got stuck in and had an absolute blast. Bike didn't break, mallet didn't break, I didn't get broken either, despite a few beginner-spills. Glad to help make up the numbers and now totally hooked. Cheers Matt, Phil, Pete, Ed. See you guys next time out.

Loads of cheap online t-shirt printers, including this one which has quite good selection of styles, colours, etc:

http://www.indigoclothing.com/

Prices from about £2 each and no minimum order.
I reckon if enough people want shirts, lets go for it. I'm in.

I'll be there :)

I use 40:23 on the bike I just built, which gives about 43 GI on 26 inch wheels. Mainly cos that's what I had to hand. Could go slightly lower, which dave has on his bike(38:23 I think). A lot depends on what you have available and whether you want to spend any money(I'm notoriously averse to that where possible). Freewheel at the mo, but soon to be fixed.

Sun's out, so are me and my bike. One of the rare occasions I don't envy those of you in full time employment ;)

Hard as fuck ;)

No worries, Matt. Knew there must have been something, I know you're not usually shy of a bit of rain. If you had shown there would only have been the three of us anyway. Looking forward to next time for a tryout, should have our own mallets too by then. BTW, have loads more boards for wheel discs if you're interested.(Dare I say team colours?)

I'm guessing no-one's playing in this pissing rain...

We turned up from Cramlington. Waited for an hour or so, nobody else showed. It wasn't raining in Gosforth, not till we left just after 4 anyway. Its only rain - pussies!

me and dave confirm

When and where? I'm there!

No worries ;)

Yeah Phil, got given loads and might be gettin a load more. If polo on tomorrow, will bring some with me. I'll also bring some yellow pipe, just in case. Failing that, I'll bring them to RCB on Wednesday. Most of the bike came out the skip at RCB.

Just built this for polo

Me and Dave prob turn up too. At Gosforth?

Have a few feet of yellow pipe for mallet heads if anyone needs some. I could do with a couple of ski poles or similar for shafts/handles for me and me bruv if anyone knows of any.

This is my Viking. It was a 10 speed I was given for nowt by a mate cos everything on it was fooked. And it was green.

Wouldn't mind coming along to watch, cheer, commentate, ooooh and aaaah, heckle, throw rocks, laugh, then cheer/laugh some more, maybe even take some pictures if I remember my camera, that kind of thing. So where's this 'the usual place', then? ;)

Anyone keen for a smaller fixed ride? 20 miler? i liked the look of that ride that marc did

This sounds more my kind of distance, Tom ;)
Are you thinking Sunday, or some other day(Trains?)?

Yeah, really nice job on this one John. Particularly like the forks and the togetherness of it all. Just got to nail skidding without falling off and you're sorted ;)

Thanks for reminding everyone of that, Matt.

Seriously, though, thanks for the positive feedback 'bout the bike ;)

Bike to name (John). The Viking steel fixed whip is finally resprayed/rebuilt. It's my only bike and has been built on a tight budget, cos I jobless right now:

Did all the work meself.

Dyin' to get out on the trusty Viking but got some shiny new bits for Christmas (chainset + BB and new headset) so bike's currently stripped for respray and rebuild. Glad to see some of you are getting out in the snow. Still snowbound in Cramlington :(
Peace