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1) the personal approach: pester every single one of your friends who rides a bike and bully them into coming. They then may realise what they've been missing
2) let someone play on your bike, this totally changes your experience of polo. Someone who first tries it on a properly set up polo bike will have a totally different opinion to someone who tries it on a normal bike and then will be far more likely to come back

TBH i think surface is always gonna be an issue. I mean in bristol there are some fantastic courts of amazing size with perfect surface, but these are all only single courts. And when it comes to a tournament with 60+ people coming (as this has often come clear during some tournaments) a single court is just not enough, so the organisisers have to make concessions and this ,more than often, comes at the cost of the surface.

I'm interested in everyones opinions of the surface of the courts we had for the bristol tourney. Was it too bumpy or was that enough of a sacrifice for the size/grippiness?

i'm just worried about the rake giving me too much toe overlap, i guess i could try them on at the BFF, i'll Pm him. Also do you mean Tuff guy?

has anyone got a pair of pompino forks for sale? figured i'd check here before giving on one all my money.
cheers

can we have a few more details about this? i need to start booking trains n shit.

so i recently made the big step of putting SPD's on my pompino but have found that i'm getting a bit of toe overlap which i wasn't getting with platform pedals. This probably wouldn't be too much of an issue but i was planning on getting a set of onza tuff guy forks which have a rake of 30mm compared with my current pompetamine forks 45mm (i need a pair of forks with v mounts anyway). My thinking is that i can get a set of shorter cranks this might help deal with the problem but it would only really be from 170 to 165 which doesn't seem like much when compared with such a big change in rake. So should i just sack off getting the Tuff guys? or is there anything else i can do?

Dibs
ONZA 165mm CHAINSET 24T ring Can take rings with 94mm BCD or 58mm BCD ** NEW AND UNUSED** £31
Pm'd

no luck so far, but my efforts haven't stemmed beyond a good google

sorry to drag up the past but does anyone know anywhere i can get a pair of these? i've been googling but to no avail. even flea bay left me dry.

1. #dckbrn (TS, IDoNothing, hamsandwich)
   
2. Alan & Brian's softfurnishings (John, Sandy, Louis)
   
3. Spring Break (Adam, Jono, Ali)
   
4. Passed It
   
5. Netto Superstars(Chan, Mirek,Lebowski)
   
6. Nice Touch!
   
7. Next Polo Trend (Alex, Ben, Robbie Warin)
   
8. Name tbc (Emmet, B., Pompon)
   
9. Polo Erectus (Neil, Rob, ?)
   
10. Mallet Ballet(Josh,Luca,Lee)
    
11. Name TBC (Matt, Mickey, Mayeut)
    
12. hasta la cocina (erin, jo, ali)
    
13. Slop Buckets (Ju,Chris (kaos), ??)
    
14. Psyclone's lengthy and tiresome team name (Alfie,crumb,...)
    
15. Name TBC (Tim Warin,Ady Hacked Off,....)
    
    

The Phil name is reserved for those who met him in all his glory
I heard alfie is Phil

Bristol Open 2011 Hard Court Bicycle Polo Tournament on Vimeo

Bristol Open 2011 Hard Court Bicycle Polo Tournament on Vimeo

Alfie is looking for a team! he comes in a range of colours and is rad at polo. preferably he wants to play with some people from a different city so as to pick up some new skillz. Pm me if your interested or know anyone who else who is.

unfortunately those photos aren't mine but the guys with the fuck off great big camera

the guy with the huge camera just emailed me all the photos from this tourney
http://www.iseepeople.co.uk/brightonpolo/

PICTURES!
http://www.iseepeople.co.uk/bristolpolo/index.html

Team warin are looking to mix things up a little bit (family issues) so if anyone wants to do a bit of chopping and changing and mix up the teams and play with some different people let us know. So Tim, Robbie and Alfie are all up for grabs

found some sixsixone pads at the courts (like the ones worn by james aufbruch) anyone claiming them? can bring to the bff

Just found out, be there at 9.30 at the very latest

start time is 10 but not entirely sure what time people need to get there for registration etc, i'll pester ady when i see him

brilliant, do you have any idea how i could contact him?

Right!
so i'm going to write piece about polo which will hopefully be published in boneshaker magazine. In my mind at the moment it will focus less on what the sport is but more on the people and different scenes across the globe. I also want to talk about how it has changed and evolved from a few people hitting a ball around on brakeless fixies to the sport it is today . There will of course be a few player profiles and sections on different scenes across the globe - at the moment i'm thinking London, Seattle and then somewhere smaller such as krakow but am undecided on this so suggestions would be great.

What i really what is an accurate history of polo, i've been scouring the web for a while but haven't been able to find anything concrete (the best thing i've found is the lhbpa website) and ideally i want to get in contact with one of the original seattle players. Does anyone have any contacts with the seattle scene and know how i'd go about doing this?

With the profile of the london scene would it be better to just post the questions up on here or contact individuals? if the later who would be the best people to contact?

I'm really interested in getting everyones input so if you have any ideas or things to say, please post them up on here

Thanks
Robbie

played on the court in the rain for the first time tonight and it's absolutely brilliant. Really grippy even whilst soaked

just to clarify, the worlds will not be in london?