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Ed Glazar’s Promo Card
about 1 week ago - No comments
Ed has been shooting bike related events in NYC for years. Here is his new promo card, it’s got a shot of me playing bike polo in The Pit, kind of like that. And that reminds me, photos are worth money. If a mag or paper asks you for a picture they want to print, [...]
Laws of Motion by Sara Kinney
about 2 weeks ago - 3 comments
Sara is a friend in New York and what seems like years and years ago she brought her old style film camera and made this short of us playing in The Pit. We all got to see her work at one of the first Bike Shorts. Still one of my favorites.
Laws of Motion from Sara [...]
Piano man at The Pit
about 1 month ago - 2 comments
Bench Minor Tournament
about 1 month ago - 8 comments
Bench Minor
Bike polo tournament
March 20th – 21st, 2010
Chinatown, NYC
Finally, some real info about Adam’s Tournament. I talked with him tonight about this and the teams are strictly limited to five. But teams can have more than the 8-10 players as stated on the flier. It’s only a limit of how many players that can be [...]
December 20th, 2009 The Pit
about 1 month ago - 1 comment
By NYC standards we got dumped on Saturday night. About 10″ to a foot of snow in The Pit Sunday morning.
Thanks to the players who did the real work of getting that unwanted snow out of The Pit. The games were fun.
Ryan from FL was back in town for some icy games.
Thanks Birdseye for letting [...]
Adam's Tournament
about 1 month ago - 19 comments
So Zach asked me to post this.
They are working on a flier with official name, dates and tournament structure info. Check back for all that soon. Till then here is a link to the Google document that is the rules. Look it over and leave feed back. Zack and Adam will see it here as they are not on League of Bike [...]
Los Marcos Blend
about 2 months ago - No comments
In case you missed it…
LOS MARCOS COFFEE BLEND IS GROWTHN ON SLOPES OF MOUNT VOLKANOMARCOS IS BLACKER THAT SOULS OF MILLIONS DEAD MARCOSIANS WHO BLOOD SPILL THERE. OUR COFFE, IT IS “GROASTED” – IS PROSCESS WEAR THE BEAN IS ROAST AS IT IS GROW AROUNT THE CONSTANT LAVE FLOWS AND INTENTS HEAT THAT ONLY A [...]
December 3rd, 2009 night polo in NY
about 2 months ago - No comments
After work I played some Thursday night polo in The Pit. Really glad I did because there were plenty of good faces in town. Alexis from Ottawa was doing a brief stop in NYC on his way to Turducken 2 in RVA. Nick from Fort Lauderdale was in some games on a borrowed Nishiki. Matt [...]
Bike Polo. November 29th, 2009 NYC
about 2 months ago - 10 comments
Kev was in for some games at The Pit.
The weather was delightful, I was wearing a t shirt till after sundown. And the benches were full of spectators most of the day.
We tried out the use of cross bars on the goals. That also made the goals a bit wider. Both good things.
I saw some [...]






about 3 months ago
Hi can I get the pictures of the pole dancers on and off the trike for our blogs? thanks! Please check out PoleRiders.net and join the PoleRiders Facebook group for announcements. Thanks for having us at the Melee and introducing us to bike polo!
Andrew Katzander
Ariel Lasevoli
and Royal Buttercup (Royal Moana on Facebook)
about 3 months ago
No, thank you.