hockeyteeth

Any Gainesville heads check out this sub-forum? If so, I would like to cordially invite you to our weekend games of polo. You know you're interested in playing and we would love to teach you how to play. It's a very relaxed environment with easy-going people who don't take the game too seriously. I provide the mallets, so you would simply have to bring a bike.

Also, I am always down for some group rides. By group rides I mean late night excursions, daytime road rides, riding the Hawthorne Trail, whatever. Just looking to get Gainesville's cycling community together and interacting.

*edit - Ahhh... I misspelled the title of the thread like a moron.

air wolf

when and what time

mikearena

Ha, yes! Are you the person who sent me an invite via Craigslist last week that I completely forgot to respond to? If so, I'm sorry. Is this polo on grass or concrete? Is this the same game Niles from Recycled plays in?

Friday nights are drunk riding nights, if you're down with that. I usually do 30+ish miles a few times a week on the geared bike around 21ish mph, and company is always welcome on that.

We need organization!

hockeyteeth

Oh man! I didn't expect responses already. Awesome.

Time: Some time after 5 Saturdays or Sundays. It's kind of spur of the moment, depending on what the players' schedules are like. I am available any day of the week after 7, and weekends after 5. The last couple times the games have been Saturdays at about 6 PM.

Yeah, I sent you the email, Mike. Haha. The polo is on concrete atop the parking garage on the UF campus on the corner of Newell and Museum. This is not the group that Niles plays with. This is a younger crowd of students.

I just retired my last road frame, but as soon as I get my new one built up I will PM you.

mikearena

Ahh! Bad news! I've fallen more in parking garages than not in parking garages. I might have to check this out...

hockeyteeth

Eh, we can find somewhere else to play if you are not into the parking garage idea. I've been scoping out a few other places like that pavillion on University and W 4th where you can pay for parking. There's also a nice parking lot behind the Checker's on University.

I'm thinking of making a website for the Gainesville community, kinda like Tallahassee's Tallycat.org
Organizing would be way easier if we had a website.

mikearena

No, no, I was just kidding. I'm always drunk in the parking garages and trying ridiculous ****, that's why I fall. It's me the problem is with, not the garages. Besides, I'm getting really good at falling.

If you have the abilities to create a website, then go for it! That would be amazing.

onceinalifetime

painesville.org

onceinalifetime

also, you guys should come to tallahassee and school us in polo!
i'm gonna throw a nighttime, 3 on 3, coed polo tournament soon. what kind of mallets do y'all have over there?

mikearena

You're a genius!

Also, does your bag have a little velcro fuzzy rectangle that would sit on your left shoulder when you're wearing it?

hockeyteeth

We're using PVC mallets since I'm cheap. I am going to make a better mallet soon, but everyone else will have to provide their own or stick with my PVC ones.

I am down for a Tally/G-ville match. Give us time to get a little better so we can actually have a shot at schooling you something proper (we've only played 3 matches so far).

Zen Existence

Do you have any pics of these PVC mallets, for those of us that are oh-so-ignorant?

EyeRobot

It's casual as long as you don't bonk anyone over the head with a polo mallet.
(The original perp, however, will not be present due to the fact that she is bad at sports and would like to avoid humiliation.)

hockeyteeth

Eh, whatever. Come out anyway! I'm having a hard time getting people together. If nothing else, you could help us network and recruit new members for your drunken rides.

Yo, Zen. The mallets are just Ts attached to 3 foot lengths of PVC -

(The whiffle ball is ok because you can run over it without eating it and it reforms after being crushed.)

onceinalifetime

we just got hockey balls to play with. they are WAY better than whiffle balls (although we had a hell of a time getting ahold of them).


nope, it doesn't.

andypants

It's attached to the shoulder pad. I noticed when I was giving it the eyeball.

onceinalifetime

that was just on the reload. he's asking about the arena bag.

andypants

oh, right on!

andypants

How about a GVFL V. TLH Polo slam very soon!

Zen Existence

Sweet, seems like an easy enough concept. I feel a G-ville trip coming up real soon ...

hockeyteeth

Yo, check it out! Gainesville has its own crappy web forum on freewebs.com: https://www.freewebs.com/gainesville

Heads up on the Gville polo scene:

I posted on CraigsList and got an awesome response. Looks like we will be playing next Saturday! I'm fairly certain we will get at least 6 people playing, so definitely try to reserve some time for next Sat. at 6:30 for polo. We will meet in the Plaza of the Americas. Who's down?

mikearena

You are my hero! Time to ditch out on BikeForums! (I kid, I kid!)

I should have my new bike in about two weeks, at which point my current bike will be polo-able hopefully.

jamey

is that your old colnago that's on fgg today?

hockeyteeth

Oh, haha. I sent an email about the FGG Colnago. I didn't realize that was his! Friggin' perfect bike.

mikearena

Ha, no that's not mine! I mean, it looks like it's the same size and approximate age though. Color too... I don't have the original fork though.

Yeah, that bike broke. Seat tube fractured just above the bottom bracket. It's a shame. My life hasn't been the same since.

Seriously weird though. Mine had the same pedals, cranks, stem, bars. How odd.

His:



Mine:


edit: Mine after the cranks and pedal swap, apparently.