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Ben, i'll PM you about facebook. Woods, PM'ed you about possibilities. Yorgo.. noted!

1. Spring Break, London
   
2. Dead Rappers, London
   
3. Nice Touch, London
   
4. TNT, London
   
5. Comics, London
   
6. Degeneration, London
   
7. La Schmoove, London
   
8. Cosmic, London
   
9. Polo Erectus, Manchester
   
10. Netto Superstars, Manchester
    
11. Electric Cream, Cambridge
    
12. Asbo Polo, Manchester
    
13. Fenboythree, Cambridge
    
14. Pomketamine, Bristol
    

Great Edouard, any contact details you could PM me?

Ben, thanks for the info. Where did you go in Italy? Any contacts or other info that might be useful. Did you go to Rome?

Hi folks

This month i've decided to take off 3 weeks and go on a bit of a mission around Europe visiting various polo locations, getting some games in with well established groups and hopfully meeting some 'up and coming' communities that have popped up on the Leagueofbikepolo.com radar. I plan to do this via an Interrail ticket for three weeks costing 460€, my rough route will be:

Barcelona > Toulouse/Montpelier/Marsielle > Turin > Rome > Budapest > Poland (Warsaw and Krakow)> Germany > Belgium > Geneva > Brighton for the tournament on 7th May.

It's a lot to cover in just 3 weeks and i'll admit to not organising any of it but I figured I've got the first week covered at least and can make up the rest as I go along. My main reason for making a thread about this is to find out peoples experiences with interrailing with a bike? Of course it's down to each countries operator whether they accept bikes but I would like to hear of any experiences good or bad. I plan to take some sort of basic bag so that the Pompetamine cab be carried on as large hand luggage in the event of complication or prohibitive cost in taking a bike.

Also any contacts that might come in useful, places to stay etc.

Rich (bristol)

Even more without a cheater mallet!

Good man, you are officially welcome in Bristol ;-)

I am pretty sure Bristol could take up the September spot, we have a very good court now. Not the ropey old Deaner we used last september.

St Johns Lane court

In the map it displays as bare tarmac but has since been painted with some sort of court paint, makes it faster, less wear on tyre, mallet and bark.

Yessss... Cardiff in.

1. Spring Break - London (3 beds)
   
2. Degeneration - London (3 beautiful ladies)
   
3. UoB polo - Brighton (0 beds)
   
4. La Schmoove - London (0 beds)
   
5. The Joker, The Ace, and The King - London (0 beds)
   
6. Netto - Manchester (staying @ woodys) beds confirmed
   
7. Dogma or Pie
   
8. Asbo Polo - Manchester (Staying at mine) beds confirmed
   
9. Southampton1
   
10. Southampton2
    
11. Nice Touch (0 beds)
    
12. Multiple Scorgasm
    
13. Team Warin+1 - Bristol 3 beds (Staying at Tim's) beds confirmed
    
14. Thor – CBG
    
15. Black Stabbath - birmz (0 beds)
    
16. Polo Erectus - Manchetser (hoping woody has a big house) beds confirmed?
    
17. COSMIC EVANS-HARDING (3 beds unconfirmed)
    
18. Hooks -Rouen (3 beds) priority for beds
    
19. Broken Legs - Rouen (3 beds) priority for beds
    
20. Electric Cream - CBG (3 spaces on a floor would be ace)
    
21. Rusty Rims (0 beds)
    
22. Big Bush Bears - London (0 Beds)
    
23. Iron Phonies (0 Beds)
    
24. Brighton A (name to TBC)
    
25. Dynamite
    
26. don'tpasscunts (i.e brighton B) 0 beds
    
27. fenboythree - Cambridge (3 beds tbc)
    
28. Pomketamine - Bristol (3 beds)
    

Sounds awesome, i'm sure Bristol will be there.

Thanks for the games today guys, really good fun as always. Ady loved it especially being his first experience of polo outside of Bristol. Portugal next.

Sweet, we'll be along shortly.

We just arrived at Downs, no one here . Will stick around for a while

Paul, Ady and me are up for the day. Eta 12.30

Paul, Ady and me will be up from Bristol for the day for about 12ish

To Harvey: #gonnahurtyourealbadwhenwegetonthecourt

Bristol mini bus arriving 10pm ish Friday.

Unfortunately within about 8 seconds of getting to my local court I had been hijacked by the local kids :)

Thanks to everyone that gave me advice on this, as you can see it's finally finished. I have for the meantime decided not to dual pull but see how I get on with 2 lever (deore and Gold Finger). I have to say I love it so far. Loads of control, stops on a dime. Rear disc doesn't seem too powerful which is perfect.

Bristol/Cardiff in

i think rich meant the rear gabes. as in when the ball is on your offside and (if your right handed) you look through your right armpit over right shoulder etc but ball is on left side.

That's exactly what I mean Brendan, i'm pretty sure i'm up for one of these drive-side at least.

The original reason for going disc was to help prevent the skid patch problem on freewheel with a slightly out-of-true wheel, not sure if this was the best decision going down the disc route but I'm committed now I have the frame.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?PartnerID=79&ModelID=11034

Bogey, you mean this one right? Looks like it will do the job nicely although expensive. I guess this is one part of the bike I will have to accept as being expensive.

The DMR hubs suggested look good although pricey at £80, I found this deore 36H rear hub with 6 hole mount, the picture is for the front hub so I can imagine the rear to have a very narrow hub width (or whatever the term is). Do you think this will make for a weak wheel if hit from the side?

BTW frame just arrived, all very exciting!

Ady, it sounds too complicated and possibly too heavy and as Rik says, fluid not so good for polo bashes. Mechanical is the tried and tested solution by the community although not that many people using it. V is the most popular still.

i just got my new polo bike (NS bitch) set up with a deore mechanical disc brake i bought second hand. used it last night at the new indoor court and it worked perfectley! i even had to leave a lot of space for the pads as the disc was slightly bent.

Luca, what is the model number/name of this disc brake? I'm pretty set on getting an Avid BB7 as recommended above but interested to see your option.

Any recommendations on a disc guard, possibly for polo might have to get something custom made from the foundry down the road.