Minneapolis Bike Polo

The Two Wheeled Way

Sveden — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:17:45 +0000

The 2 & 21 blog created this wonderful info-graphic on Minneapolis cycling culture and its amenities. When you come to Minneapolis for the 8th Midwest Bike Polo Championships come early and stay late. You won’t be sorry.

Jump over to 2and21 and view it full sized with annotations and explanations.

Chicago Pickup Weekend

Sveden — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:55:05 +0000

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Minneapolis is sending 9 poloists to Chicago this weekend to celebrate Chris W’s birthday. Chris is coming up from Columbia, MO to celebrate.

Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Columbia and a few maybe cities will be in attendance.

Two courts x two days of pickup should make for an amazing weekend. Chicago said they might even have brand new boards up at Garfield for us. Look forward to tons of pictures of Slayers doing what slayers do.

*UPDATE*

The new courts are done!

Surly Bikes

Sveden — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:31:34 +0000

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Big thanks to Surly Bikes for stepping up and becoming a major sponsor of the Midwest Bike Polo Championships 8 in Minneapolis.

Surly calls Minnesota its home and we are proud to have this local company behind us. Surly is also home to the Steamroller, 1×1 and Karate Monkey. Bikes built with toughness and versatility in mind. Bikes a lot of us use for polo.

We couldn’t be more proud to fly their banner.

A big thanks to the all the other companies that have been so generous towards MWBPC8. Look for a sponsor page soon!

Ramp Polo

Sveden — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:50:35 +0000

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Not too much to report from Minneapolis. Planning is coming along nicely for MWBPC8, the snow is beginning to melt and old friends lost to the winter are starting to come back to play.

See you in Chicago for Chris’ Birthday Party extravaganza!

Milwaukee Bike Polo Club hosting Poker Pub Crawl February 20

bjorn — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:10:53 +0000

If you happen to be in Milwaukee on Saturday looking for a good time, you should go check out the MBPC Poker Pub Crawl

Stupor Bowl 13 Garage Polo

bjorn — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:26:17 +0000

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Last Friday night after the Stupor Bowl 13 pre-registration party at the Nomad, the polo crew, including a number of our friends from Milwaukee, cruised over to the garage and got in some late-night polo on a dark and slippery court. Everyone went down at some point on the slush that was just above the freezing point in the out-of-bounds zone. That said, it was a lot of fun until the ultra-passive transit employee sort of told us to leave, kind of. Well enough, I thought, as it was 2 a.m. and I had to get ready to race. If you’re interested, visit my blargh for a race recap and photos.

Ebbin Attacks! by Bjorn1101 on flickr.

Greif Masters Tournament

Sveden — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:06:29 +0000

GreifMasters 2010 Bikepolo from Uolmo on Vimeo.

This past weekend while Minneapolis was racing Stupor Bowl 13, Germany was putting on an epic tournament. Just look at those shirts!

Uolmo has made some nice videos in the past and this is no exception. Check out his video detailing his trip from Geneva to Karlsruhe, Germany with his polo team L’equipe The Iron Ponies. As well as being a great editor and cameraman Uolmo, from what I hear, is also one hell of a polo player.

Midwest 7 Highlights

Sveden — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:55:55 +0000

Highlights from the 7th Midwest Bike Polo Champeenships, held in Columbia MO, November 7-8, 2009. Chicago’s ‘Machine Politics’ took home the Jenny Cup. Runners Up were Milwaukee’s ‘Beaver Boys’ & ‘Hot Sauce Enema’ followed by 4th place Madison.

Stupor Bowl 13

Sveden — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:09:43 +0000

This weekend is the annual Stupor Bowl alleycat. What does that mean to the poloverse? Out of town polo players, that’s what.

Join us at the Nomad on Friday night for pre-reg and then come play Polo with us downtown. We will be playing at the garage. When and for how long depends on getting 6 people rounded up to play. So far we have a few from Milwaukee comitted to playing.

Stay tuned to @pickuppolo on Twitter. We will be TXTing up to the minute updates on when we start and end.

Friday February 5th:

Pre-registration 7:00pm-10:00pm @ The Nomad(501 Cedar Ave S)
Bands to follow

Saturday February 6th:

Registration 10:00am-1:00pm @ One on One Bike Studio(117 Washington Ave N)
Race starts at 2:00pm

Chicago vs Milwaukee, 7th Midwest Championship

Sveden — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:26:39 +0000

Dustin replaced the gerbils in his computer or something because he finally got around to editing the footage from one of the games of the 7th Midwest Bike Polo Championships in Columbia, MO.

In this game Machine Politics from Chicago comprised of Joe the Lefty, Matt Lane and Ben Schultz played against defending champs The Beaver Boys. The Beaver Boys from Milwaukee are comprised of Joe Burge, Brian Dellman and Kremin. This isn’t the championship game but the first time they met.

This probably the best video of a hardcourt game I have ever seen. With just one camera, Dustin aka Mr. Do is able to edit down the footage and get a really great sense of the flow and skills on display. I don’t remember how long the game was but this video clocks in at 4:30.

The quality is great so set that player to full screen and kick back check out some of the best players in the Midwest.