Adelaide Bike Polo

Bike polo is spreading, Adelaide will be holding their inaugural polo match on Sunday 7th December, 1pm for more details contact bikepolo.adelaide@gmail.com or check out their website at http://bikepoloadelaide.blogspot.com/.

Bike Polo has also spread to Perth and Brisbane. Check out their websites for more details.

“Top Centre 2″ - Damon, Ray and Will - took out first place winning a bag each from Crumpler.

Again sponsors were very generous. Crumpler gave us bags, Knog lights and their awesome new Knog Nerds and the Melbourne Bicycle Film Festival for t-shirts and caps.

Sponsors

Full Results

• 1st: Top Centre 2 - Damon, Ray, Will
• 2nd: The League of Extraordinary Penguins - John, Jem, Alex
• 3rd: Road Smut (aka Road Kill) - Shaun, Sam, Eric
• 4th: We Play Like Girls - Justina, Bec, Beth

Teams

Top Centre 2: Ray, Damon, Will

The League of Extraordinary Penguins: Alex, Jem, John

Road Smut (aka Road Kill): Shaun, Eric, Sam

We Play Like Girls: Justina, Bec, Beth

As part of the Melbourne Bicycle Film Festival we are having another tournament on Saturday 22nd of November!

Same deal as last time: Round robin - Knockout finals - Prizes - Music - BBQ - Fun - Spills - and best of all Fantastic Films afterwards.

Starting @ 12 noon at our Carlton location
www.bikepolo.com.au/where/

Entry:
Teams of 3 $15
Individuals can enter for $5 and we’ll pop you in a team

Spectators FREE!

Just register at:
melbourne.bicycle.polo.club@gmail.com
or on the day from 11:30am.

Sponsors

Holy crap.

In case you’re wondering, bicycle in German is “fahrrad”. drive/ride, ‘fahren’, + wheel, ‘rad’.

In the end “Top Centre” - Comprised of Damon, Ray and Pete - took first place, only conceding two goals in the process. For their efforts they walked away with a bag each from Crumpler, Nice!

All the sponsors for the day also deserve a big thank you, Crumpler for their bags, Knog for a huge bag of lights and other goodies, the Bicycle Film Festival for festival passes and t-shirts, and Shifter Bikes for some bags of goodies.

Sponsors

Full Results

• 1st: Top Centre - Damon, Ray, Pete
• 2nd: iii - Nik, Will, Vik
• Smut Peddlers - Jerrod, Sam, Robbie
• Road Kill - Neil, Mitchell, Shaun
• Chix Diggit - Vanessa, Justina, Bec
• CH3CH2OH - Jack, John, Garreth
• Black Brunswickers - Adrian, Bec, Alex

Best Stack - Rebecca

Most Valuable Player - Mitchell

Rules

For your information, the Tournament Rules (pdf) we adopted for the day.

More Thanks

An extra big thankyou to everyone who helped with the organisation of the day. Heaps of people put in hard work to make it happen. In particular: Alex4point0 for the spoke cards, Nik for bringing a BBQ on his trailer, Damon for writing the rules and general tips and advice, and Rebecca for a *heap* of work in organisation.

Photos

Photos from the day can be found in our flickr group.

Teams

iii: Nik, Vik & Will

Top Centre: Ray, Damon and Pete

Chix Diggit: Bec, Justina and Vanessa

Smut Peddlers: Robbie, Jerrod and Sam

Team photos for the Black Brunswickers, CH3CH2OH and Roadkill are on the way!

From 12pm at our Carlton location:
www.bikepolo.com.au/where/

Entry:
Teams of 3 $15
Individuals can enter for $5 and we’ll pop you in a team

Spectators FREE!

Just register at:
melbourne.bicycle.polo.club@gmail.com

Practice up! Sundays at Carlton 1pm till dark or Tuesdays Valhalla polo at Ikea carpark from 6:30pm.

NO PRIVATE TRAINING SESSION THURSDAYS AT NORTHCOTE. Honest. But there should be.

This is riding. This is a bicycle that teaches me something every time I ride it, that makes me more by virtue of it’s being less. It’s the bike I ride until the street lights come on and sometimes even longer. It’s the bike I put away sadly and take out joyfully. It’s the bike that never forgets why we ride.

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Check it out at Hardcourt Bike Polo.