Bummer

Our trip to Atlanta was canceled, unfortunately Jordan hit a pot hole and broke his collar bone hours before we were to leave. We're all bummed out, but at least his head isn't broken, ha. Get well soon Jordan. Good luck to our buddies from NOLA, P-COLA, and BATON ROUGE.

So with that said, POLO WILL GO ON AS REGULARLY SCHEDULED ON SUNDAY!!!

Polo @ 2:00 p.m.
Eastwoods Park

and you guys better come ready to play, I'm in the mood to play hard, so if I run you down chasing a ball, ha, fuck it, get used to that shit, or get faster! BRING IT!

ATL this weekend!!!

Just in case you forgot about this tourny, Jordan, Dan, and Myself are taking the trip to represent ATX in ATL. It's going to be a long 15 hour drive, but in the end it should be worth it all. Some of our pals from NOLA, Baton Rouge, and P-cola will be there, so we will at least know some of the faces.

Polo this Sunday may be like last Sunday, unless you guys take it upon yourselves to do it, don't be lazy! It might be a good time to scout some mallet materials, or just have a social club outing.

All I know is I'm stoked!

NOLA PICS

LFT

Louisiana - Florida - Texas

Israel, Jordan and I went over to New Orleans this weekend for some friendly polo matches with our closest polo neighbors. A group came over from Pensacola, as well as, a team from Baton Rouge, so there were 4 different cities representing and 3 different states. It was a lot of fun. We stayed with our buddy Jeff from NOLA, who played on the Pensacola team, and will be with them for the ATL tourny this weekend.

Of course we rode around a bit through town to get some food, see some of the area, and relax before polo started.

Their court is awesome, it's under an I-10 overpass in a parking lot with curbs all the way around, except for a few spots for cars to drive through. There were some homeless spectators. The court is a lot larger than ours, which I liked a lot, the long breaks and longer ball possession time was enjoyable. Long passes are always fun.

The guys brought out a keg for all of us... it is New Orleans. That's how you do it! Thanks for that NOLA, you guys rock.

This is the group that showed up to play... most of them did play, and all were really cool and fun to hang out with. Oh did I mention how much I enjoyed the shade!!! That is literally one of the coolest parts about their spot.



The Pensacola Team, AB, Ryan, and Jeff.

Thanks NOLA for hosting us, thanks Jeff for letting us crash at your tiny ass place and hanging out with us, and thanks to Pensacola and Baton Rouge for coming out and playing with us. We all had a blast and I can't wait to meet up again.

Here are some more pictures

Hahaha...

The Talented Mr. Hunter from Mr.Do on Vimeo.

Just in case anyone is scared they will taco their wheel during polo, fear not, here is the solution.

Is it too early...

Is it too early to mention this...?

BFF POLO TOURNY

This is what I've got so far, more info to come!
bikepolo.ca

Polo This weekend and Today!

POLO TODAY @ 5:30 P.M. - EASTWOODS PARK
Be there!

POLO SUNDAY WILL BE AT 2 P.M.
if anyone can come pick up the mallets, balls, and goals!


If you didn't hear or know, then I'm sorry, but some of us will be making a trip to NOLA this weekend to play some of the NOLA crew, word is the p-cola boys are also coming back to play and even some guys from Baton Rouge are coming out. This is all to get ready for the ATL tourny next weekend... I repeat next weekend!

So this weekend and next weekend, if you want to play polo, you might need to find out where I live so you can come pick up the mallets and such, cause I won't be here!

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The Bicycle Film Festival will be here August 5-9, which is a Wednesday - Sunday!! That's 3 more days than last year... I didn't go last year, but this year I will try for sure.

There is a lot going on in those 5 days, and with all that, we are excited to announce that we are going to host a bike polo tournament with the help of the BFF!!! It's official, expect to hear a lot more about this in the next coming weeks. Some of us met with Jeanette from the BFF crew and she has a lot of good things going already and we had some ideas of our own to make it a really awesome event. We want as many teams from Austin as we can get and hopefully we can attract some players and teams from other cities to join us.

I'm really excited about this and I know some of the other ATXBPSC are as well! If you want to be a part of it, let me know and start thinking of who you want to play with in the tourny, so you can start practicing together as a team, if you want!



Also as a side note: if you want a mallet of your own to practice with on the days we don't play, let one of us know and we will try to find some mallet material to help you out, or find some yourself and we can show you how we made our mallets or you can go here or here and find out yourself, I'm all about self-sufficiency... also Jimmi said he might be able to help get some ski poles soon, talk to him!

Sunday

WHERE DID ALL THE NEWBIES COME FROM??

We had a ton of new faces out there yesterday... tons... I showed up a little after 2, which was the new starting time for polo, and John Rensho was there, then Wes showed up, and we sat for a long time before anyone else showed up... more and more people came, but all of them came with really nice bikes and they came to just watch... JUST WATCH! Who wants to do that? All in all it was a fun night, Jasmine had brought out some more snacks, I had brought some watermelon, several people brought some beer, Jimmi scored on his birthday, lots of polo was played, and some new talent was seen! Man, I love Sundays! Here are some pics.

Max and Dan Cakes with very big smiles!



And then of course, if you ever wondered to yourself, "Can a tall bike hold 2 people safely and comfortably, while in motion?"
Well the answer is probably not, but it can hold 2 people in motion!

Look what I found...

I just remembered to check out Brian's website to see if he had posted those polo pics I was speaking of from the other week. If you don't remember he was in town for something else, showed up to see what it was all about and ended up taking some cool pictures, even though he didn't play, I think he enjoyed it. Click on the image to see his site, and be sure to follow the link to his flickr page to see more.

hi, this is me, I'm rob.

SUNDAY POLO

POLO ON SUNDAY WILL START AT A NEW TIME

2:00 P.M. @ EASTWOODS PARK

if no-one else shows up at 2 I'll at least be there playing with my balls, the polo balls, duh!!
I'll bring some watermelon too! (thanks mom)

this is not my photo, I stole it somewhere from the inter-nets a long time ago... sorry

EXPECT TO HEAR SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT GOING TO NOLA NEXT WEEKEND,
AS WELL AS GOING TO ATL ON THE 19-21st OF THIS MONTH!!!
if you don't know where NOLA and ATL are, then you don't deserve to know

thyneighborsbike

Dan

Cyrus

click the images for some more!

ATX - NOLA

Hey guys, I've been talking with some NOLA guys to set up some matches with them... Since you all play as well, let's hear your suggestions!

go here and comment:

nobikes.org


Oh and who'd be down to start Sunday Polo at 2:00 p.m. instead of 4:00 p.m.? Comment and let me know! DO IT!

Sunday Funday

Andy's right, Polo on Sunday was amazing... tons of new faces, new bikes, new friends! Glad everyone made it out! Here are some more pics...

Proud owner of the new tall bike!