Monday, September 17, 2007

Cycle Ball: Another Reason to Get Chased By Rent-A-Cops

You  tried bike polo after hours in some corporation's parking lot. You got chased. Why? You were swinging home-made mallets concocted from bits of 2x4s with garage sale golf club shafts jammed into them. Oh no, that doesn't have liability written all over it.



Next time, when you are feeling like a team player, get all of your friends together; put on your soccer clothes from five years ago, jump on your track bikes, and play cycle ball.  Read about the rules , and let's not have all the teams, re: UCI tradition, being made up of guys. Boring. Mix it up. Read about the history of cycle ball so someone has a clue. Remember the Pospíšil brothers, and kick it for your country.



The guys in these photos have special bikes, as you can see. But you can start with a fixie. First, get some supreme balance and grace. Then take everything pointy and dangling off the frame, so you don't lacerate yourself or others on a broken, jagged piece of alloy. Also, remember to put some bar plugs in the bars, so you don't core sample yourself. If anyone has some horsehair, put it inside the ball.



I'd like to watch some cycle ball matches. I am getting kind of bored watching YouTube shorts of people skidding down big hills. It is starting to feel like watching endless downhill videos taken with helmet-mounted cameras. That Was Then, This is Now. (S.E. Hinton was 23 when she wrote that book in 1971. Her first book, The Outsiders, was published when she was 19 in 1967.)



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