Posts Tagged ‘polo’

UK Bike Polo Championships

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

UK Bike Polo Championships

A warm-up for the Euros… the first ever UK Bike Polo Championships will take place in Manchester on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th April 2010. Registration has now closed with 36 teams, one team from Oxford assuming we find enough uninjured people who haven’t left the country.

Updated with flyer from Adam Russ

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World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships 2010 in Berlin

Friday, February 12th, 2010

World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships 2009

It’s official! The 2nd World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships will be held from Friday 13th to Sunday 15th August 2010 in Berlin.

There’s only space for 64 teams and with more than double that number wanting to play they’ll be some sort of pre-tournament qualification, details still to be decided. The hosts are promising plenty of hospitality for everyone though… so book you tickets now.

EHBPC Pre-Registration Ambassadors Required

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Ferrero Rocher by evelynishere
Geneva are organising next year’s European Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships sometime in July (probably), and being Swiss they’re ultra organised and are asking all cities planning to enter to pre-register and supply the name of an ambassador.

Car Polo

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Since 2008 the US Library of Congress has been loading some of its historical photo collections onto Flickr. Nothing on bike polo yet though they’re continuing to upload photos and there’s bound to be something in their archives. In the meantime we’ll have to make do with an even crazier sport….

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If you’d rather stick with the bike version, come along on to our weekly practice on Wednesday, 20.30-ish, Currys car park, Botley Road, Oxford.

Cycle Oxford Festival 2009 Video

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Fresh from the editing suite, The Cycle Oxford Festival 2009, including Oxford’s first bike polo tournament.

1958 Cycle Polo

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Wednesday polo at the usual time of 20.15 ish, Currys car park, Botley Road. You’ll be following in the footsteps of these 1958 kids… watch and learn.

EHBPC 2010 Vote

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Register to vote!

There’s going to be an online vote from the 25-27th November to decide the host city for EHBPC 2010. It’s open to all European players, but you’ll need to register at bikepolo.ca and join the Europe group before the 21st November to be eligible.

Last Night’s Polo

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Oxford urban bike polo

We played. It rained. We got wet. Heres a few photos taken by a German superstar.

More Bike Blenheim Pictures

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Town Meets Country Bike Polo

A nice set of photos from John Spooner on Flickr. And a few more from road.cc’s pretty extensive coverage of Bike Blenheim Palace.

Don’t forget we’re now playing at 20.15 Wednesday evenings in Curry’s car park, Botley Road.

Polo Wednesdays

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Wednesday polo

It’s winter and we need more people! We’ll mostly be playing Wednesdays only, 20.15 in the Curry’s car park off Botley Road: http://tinyurl.com/botleypolo. If you’re definitely coming contact us and we’ll let you know if we decide not to play due to rain or for some other reason.