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Old 03-11-07 | 12:55 PM
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DC Bike Polo

Please don't move this, no one will check the local thread.

DCfixed is down and I forgot when and where polo is.
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Old 03-11-07 | 01:06 PM
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What: Bicycle Polo (whats that?)
Where: Rush Rink (D St & 13th St SE)
When: Weekly (Alternating Wednesday and Thursday Nights)
Who: DC Street Pirates (official US Bicycle Polo team of DC)

Can't tell if it's a wed or thur though
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Old 03-11-07 | 02:18 PM
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DCfixed should is up.

https://dcfixed.com/vanilla/comments....nID=495&page=7

Thus. is the day. We have not played on Wen in some time.
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Old 03-11-07 | 09:40 PM
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We played today.
Watch out NY... We're getting better.

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Old 03-11-07 | 10:04 PM
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Bikes: iro mark v for street, sh itamori peloton for track

i can't wait for everyone to come up for the invitational. bring your A game, DC!
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Old 03-12-07 | 07:22 AM
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I don't know if DC & NYC are interested, but Toronto is hosting a city-partnered Bike Polo Tourney in early June this year. Attractions include a beautiful venue, competition, spectators, a road crit the same day around (literally) the bike polo fields (2 fields). Housing can be arranged though I'll need a few days to secure that information & contacts, 6 days actually.

You'll face Toronto, Montreal & Ottawa (NA Champs those Ottawa people) for certain, and we're also inviting Philly, Portland, Chicago + NYC & DC of course, others too if we find them. Ottawa is smashing power good apparently, they are the ones to beat!

any interest...hmmm. hmmmm? yer notz the cowards are yous?
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Old 03-12-07 | 07:47 AM
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Bikes: IRO Angus 53, Marinoni Special 54, LMNO Custom Road Bike, Guerciotti TT, Late 60s Bottechia Road, Univega Via Montega beater/polo/rain bike.

are you talking about polo with rules on the grass, or street polo the way the ny tournament will be?
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Old 03-12-07 | 08:27 AM
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I'm not in charge of the rules, or anything else for this event, but it will be played on hard surface, perhaps a larger area than normal? Each polo field is the equivalent of 3 tennis courts.
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Old 03-12-07 | 08:34 AM
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Each polo field is the equivalent of 3 tennis courts.
Jeebus

We measured our new spot (aka the Battledome) yesterday.
At roughly 100' x 50' it's fairly small.

How big is the spot in NYC?
From the photoz it looks much bigger.
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Old 03-12-07 | 08:38 AM
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hmm.
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Old 03-12-07 | 08:43 AM
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Haha... hells yes.
That whole court is done up and paited with stuff like that.

The guy who owns/manages the shoe repair joint on the corner seemed really cool.
Totally into the community thing, you could tell he's been around for ages.

He even helped up bag up the leaves and glass!

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Old 03-22-07 | 01:52 PM
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WE'RE PLAYING POLO TONIGHT
THURSDAY MARCH 22ND
7:00PM @ 13th & D SE

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Old 03-22-07 | 01:55 PM
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weird bike polo is played on asphalt now... I guess it gets a lot less people pissed off at you but it just doesn't seem the same.
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