Chains are sprayed down with a new coat of oil, air pressure is double checked to insure the maximum agility, and the poles and pipes are tightened to ensure solid strikes. Scabs and old wounds stay open for the onlooker’s eyes who will never fully understand the glory of them. These warriors live for the community, the pavement, the rush of wind on a fast break, but most of all they live for the grandeur and competition found in Urban Bike Polo.

Bike polo is a game of urgency, ruggedness, and pure sweet magnificent, finesse. The sport can be played on manicured lawns, to maximize ball movement, or on the pavement. Concrete players gain much more credibility and seeing that concrete is already a developed court it makes no sense to go tear up a nice lawn.

The majority of the Polo sticks are made from old ski poles and plastic tubing that serves as the club head. A street hockey ball is used and the goal of the game (pun intended) is to put the ball through two cones that are set a bicycle length apart on either ends of the court. Any kind of bike can be used, however the fixed geared bikes allow a person more mobility in that you can go backwards and forwards.

Each team has three people on the court at one time and after a “3,2,1, Go!” count they are off to the races; whirling, twirling, bumping, and smacking, all in the hopes that they can be considered Court Kings.

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