Polo Derby

So this week has been a rough one for polo. This month rather. We are running through mallet heads, shafts, forks, chainrings, and rims. The damaged goods are stacking tall these days. Fucking Danny was in for a couple and promptly off back to Cali after some beer, whiskey, and polo. It was good to have him back even if only for an hour or two. I didnt get to many flicks this week as there was another photogrpaher on the court. But here is a couple of broken pieces from my own collection.

Rainy Games and Deadly Jousts

This past Sunday was a blast. It was great playing in the pouring rain for a game or two. No pictures of rainy games cause I wasn't trying to kill my camera. Cyrus showed up with the uni-cycle again which always makes for interesting polo matches, pretty uneven, but interesting. Ariel brought his new Eighth Inch mallet and it didnt last past the first joust. Eighth inch is rumoring a new sturdier compound being used for heads but I think the heads are heavy to begin with and because of that the shafts are made light and thin to make up for it. A stronger compound that weighed less would be better and up the thickness and sturdiness of the shaft. Thats just me.

First day of Polo in the New Year

This past Sunday was a great way to start of the New Year. Lots of old slackers and new faces showed up to start the new year with some polo. Rob tacoed a chainring riding into the court not even playing. Visiting Eilif came to represent for Corvallis playing with no chain at points in the day. Nates been coming more frequently and playing with an aerospoke like only a mad man would.

My Day Back to Polo

So I finally made it back out to polo this past weekend. School has been killing me. Anywho Clark called me out on not updating and I think its because he likes the polo blog to be updated with stuff about him...so here you go Clark...

Clark brought out his whip all modded out for polo. Its some crazy gearing like 24/22. His bike was fast and manueverable. Here he is showing it off...



it was short lived...between problems with lockrings and taking hits his bike did not hold up for the day, but his chainring did get the 21 gun salute with toy rifles...







Be on the look out I should have some HNL BikePolo swag soon...I hope. Sau sorry to here bout your mouth, and Rob your arm. Hope you both are back to tip top shape in no time.

Coverin them spokes...

After a couple weeks ago having this happen...





and finding this...



I fixed a few spokes, had the wheel re-trued, Rob threw me a tube, and then I decided to go get this...



so that my front wheel is now covered up something refreshing like this...