You keep walking when you notice ski poles in the thrift store.
...or you keep walking when you spot lengths of ABS or HDPE lying there unused, ready to be "re-distributed".
you know you're not taking bike polo seriously enough when...
You play on your fixed brakeless dropbar 57x13 flashy track bike.
Your front wheel is an aerospoke.
You've never bled on your home court.
... you play for months with the same shitty, worn-out mallet head on the end of an old ass bent-up pole that's about to snap at any moment and are too lazy to build a new mallet even though this one causes you to suck hard.
... you've been playing polo at least a year and have all the basics down but still won't gear down even though everyone tells you that as soon as you do you'll get better and be less frustrated and thus increasing your FUN FACTOR
...you wear no helmet.
You built your first disc wheel in germany after having already been playing for 2 years.
"ok Mr. Schwinn fucking Armstrong!"
you think wheel covers help your game
they hurt your game, start taking this stuff seriously for christ sakes
and you just need to buy better spokes,
on better rims,
and you should play better.
I usually have a wheel cover on my front wheel and have considered taking it off as of late. And then, lo and behold, a shot goes through the spokes on my rear wheel this weekend basically costing us the game. I'm back to thinking wheel covers are important and worth it for those rare occasions.
BOP: Eating Little Split Pea's shit for years.
That was amazing. A testament to the fact that even 48 isn't enough. And of course, the look on your face was priceless.
and you just need to buy better spokes,
on better rims,
.
some of us can't afford new rims and spokes every few months.
personally i've never felt my game was affected by a front wheel cover.
Obvious troll is obvious...
If your mum gave you 2 dollars to buy three ice creams, how many ice creams could you buy before you get shot in the back with a harpoon?
.. you're having fun
PISS CORNER!
when you choose to do [anything] on polo day, besides playing polo.
when the pain of the injury that is keeping you from playing is more bothersome than the torture of not being able to play.
BRINGING THE RUCKUS
You spend months organising the brackets for the nationals and now you can't find the results for day 1.
You think that playing to 5 goals is too tiring.
haha!
you turn up to polo, don't play and make an embroidered patch saying MBPC
you turn up to the Championships with a team of 5 and sub out half the players
you turn up to the Championships without mallets and make them on the first day
you sleep in on the 2nd day of the Championships
you spend more time working on your bike than improving your polo skills
you spend more time talking about polo than playing it
when you'd rather heckle the players than get in the game
The bitter cold even makes you think about not playing. weenies
new mexico?? what do you know?
... when you only come on this damn site when you're too injured to perform normal day to day activities.
your polo bike still has working gears
when youre beer:goal ratio is 12:0
youre not serious enough when you got hurt a month and a half ago and haven't played since. forcing the three guys that still show up after summer ended to play half court ONE on ONE on ONE.
youre not serious enough when you show up with no intention of drinking.
youre not serious enough when you: show up late, crazy hung over, forgot your helmet and mallet... then use those excuses to not play.
youre not serious enough when you got hurt a month and a half ago and haven't played since. forcing the three guys that still show up after summer ended to play half court ONE on ONE on ONE.
they should've been playing kenball
you still race alley cats.
Agreed. 3 races in my area last weekend. Didn't even think twice about not racing (though the one where you got more points for how many drinks you drank during the race did sound appealing)
srsly, that's when i realized shit had changed for me. i gave up on a race i could've won, for a polo tournament after having only played for 4 weeks.
You wear a woolen band jacket to throw-in to keep out the cold and ward off drunk ninjas. what does a band jacket and drunk ninjas have to do with bike polo anyway?
you even think about what else you have to do on a polo day practice or game!
mike-polo
fail to turn up to polo because you're hungover
haven't busted any spokes on either of your front or back wheels
haven't burst any tyres or tubes from skidding
...you've never had brozeberry.
...you use the same rear tire for more than a week.
dear matt,
i love your polo,
best regards,
brostopher broberts
Oy! What's all this hate I'm hearing from the rear brake camp? Front brake's so a legit way to play.
Maybe "...you use the same rear tire for more than a week [while running a rear brake]." would make more sense.
...you've only played polo in the city you live in.
...you don't check the forum more than 1 time a day.
...you've never posted 5 consecutive times on one thread.
Your still riding a conversion bike with drop bars
"ok Mr. Schwinn fucking Armstrong!"
...you have never broken a bone playing bike polo.
You spend more time on this website than actually playing polo.
You think Bike Polo is just a game and not a sport.
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bikepolo.com.au
urbanbicyclist.org
you use savannah college of art and design's winter break as an excuse not to play polo (because some of the kids went home for the break) what the hell savannah?
you think a flashy bike will help improve your polo
you don't start your polo day morning with beermosas
danaL
gem city
anti-slayer
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you discover http://www.leagueofbikepolo.com/clubs/regions and realize your not a member of your region.
You get offered a horse sponsorship to play equestrian polo and say yes!
all ya think about is play polo but thier is nobody around bo ho bo ho bo ho bo ho bo bo0 oho bo ho bo ho bo ho
When you travel from sf to vic for a tournament,don't read or listen to the rules ,have 9 costume additions the first day and ignore your team mates calls to pull yer sel together cause it's all such a laff that how could anyone not be enjoying this MACHINE "So this is how it ends"
You have never been arrested for playing bike polo...
http://www.leagueofbikepolo.com/forum/general/2010/01/10/going-to-jail-f...
You think polo is better with a jump ramp in the middle of the rink.
you buy a joust ,leave the frame and fork in storage for 2 months, rush the build in a week with possessed parts from your old regenerator, rush the hill from twin peaks to the mission on your test ride , play faster and more furious than ever coz you only have 4 hours of practice til your next tournie in a week so don't account for the new bike geometry as you plough across the court and it bucks you straight up to plant you on the concrete, separating your shoulder leaving you OUT for 6 weeks.................Now you're takin it seriously Machine "so this is how it ends"
you know you take snakebites too seriously when you have a separated shoulder but won't take the vicodin cause you gotta save your liver for its true purpose!
heal fast Machine,
Devin
while driving you pass a construction truck with a spool of HDPE going the opposite direction and you DONT turn around to follow it this morning!!
There are 6 amazing tournaments going on simultaneously throughout the world and you're not at any of them.
When you clean your house on a Sunday.
You clean before polo you big dummy. horrible excuse. I'm going to physically man handle you next time you pull that shit.
when you give up chasing a breakaway
When you only take one mallet away with you to university.
But you know you are taking polo seriously enough when that mallet breaks and it makes you feel homesick for the first time.
...rawbie bawrds ask's you to take pictures of him doing horrible things to rev phil with a length of hdpe...and you do...
Is the HDPE still usable?
...rawbie bawrds ask's you to take pictures of him doing horrible things to rev phil with a length of hdpe...and you do...
ya and u like it u prevert
u sleepin in my bed? it is ok jason
u left one your i dont know what u callit a shaw that thing u wrap around u neck when u get cold well it is know fat cats new bed she says thanks jazzasshole
When you'd rather see Slayer then be a slayer.
You spend more time on your street bike than on your polo bike
you don't do what it takes for Austin.
WHEN ARE THING'IN ABOUT THE NEXT U SEE ARE YOUR POLO BUDDYS FROM THE STATES
AND THE SLANSON GIRLS
when you haven't contributed to the side-joint cheating thread.
In other news:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can-Am
search for "suck" and "vacuum"
"Although far too mechanically complex to survive in racing environments, the theory was sound, and would appear in Formula One a few years later, first in Colin Chapman's Lotus cars, and even more directly in the BT46B 'Fan Car' of 1978"
when you post about car racing on the polo forum.
when you post about car racing on the polo forum.
muffin it should say bike jocks are cocks
when you post about car racing on the polo forum.
muffin it should say bike jocks are cocks
When your lobp.com threads fail like the seat of your favorite polo jeans.
http://leagueofbikepolo.com/forum/gear/mallets/2010/11/19/a-new-malet-de...
You've ridden your polo bike every day for the last 7 days and none of has been polo related.
when you dont have a polo specific bike...
when you bend the shit out of your fork on the polo bike along with the dent in the back rim that makes it look like pacman and you pay your car registration instead of using that money to fix the polo bike
When both hips are bloody and bruised from Sunday in Oakland...
And instead of paying for hip-pads, buying a 12-pack for Monday nite
polo in SF... and landing on the same injuries... and maybe missing future polo...
:(
...you put your mallet into your own front wheel and take out 15 of 30 spokes in one fell swope. Then laugh your ass off and drink a co' bur.
When u talk C Murder into showing up at the Tempe qualoifier with the rest of his team even though they took 3rd @ the SF tournie against basically the same regional teams,and may knock you one spot back and unable to qualify, coz fellow poloistas are Effing awesome
.....And then you have to talk him into teaming up with you in Little rock to make sure you have 2 regional players and another chance to qualify.
when you'd rather go see common in concert then play polo...can you believe that!?! It really happened someone bailed on polo to see fucking Common...
You keep walking when you notice ski poles in the thrift store.