D la Repubblica delle Donne on bike polo in Italy

Ugly article!

hi there,
actually this article gives just some basic information about bike polo, not really good information in our opinion, like the match are just during the night when the city sleeps or like that you need a fixie to play. Well we love to play with freewheels during the day

rob from roma bike polo

and there was also some errors about the rules. it says if u touch the playfround with your foot you are out of the game :-/

Hi Doug, thanks for sharing the article.
we need to improve our blog with an English section… we are thinking about it.
However, the article is published by a fashion weekly magazine and we have mentioned because we think it is partisan.
The article discusses the bikepolo as limited to fixed brakeless bike. Now, even if history may be true, one of the basic rule of HCBP is that you can use any bike. Nora, the Finnish girl interviewed in the article, says he brought the bikepolo in Milan, where there are now almost a hundred players, everyone on fixies. Almost all of us in Rome play with rear brake and freewheel, even those who started with the wheel fixed. We are not against fixies, some of us still have a fixed gear for traveling through city, simply we find free wheel, short gears and rear brake are better choices for BP.
Some of the reaction to the post are around the question whether the journalist is objective or not and the way information can change depending on who you are interviewing…
However everyone is happy bout the fact that italian media are slowly starting interesting in this wonderful sport.
I saw your profile’s story and read about the Tournaments you havee won. Best compliments, you are a tough team.
by the way, do you play on a fixed or freewheel bike?
Well let’s keep in touch and let us know if you take a trip to Italy.

M