NYTimes.com - Urban Bicycle Polo

[Microglia1]

my bike 12 pounds...all carbon...so is my mallet. I usually get pushed around quite easily...

[Rubenavides218]

cool haircut bro

[thecastman97]

i wanna try this, but i think its bs when people can just knock you off your bike like its nothing

[7amsays]

I can see a future market for high end mallets with carbon shafts, some kinda nylon or ABS head. Has anyone tried using hockey shafts for them?

[icebearlover14]

@7amsays

Yes, there are bike polo mallets but homemade are better don't know why.

[7amsays]

dude, that looks pretty cool. I would def like to try that some day.

[thetwowheeler1]

I play water polo, and I ride a track bike on the streets. Hopefully gonna hit the track scene. This seems like a really good idea for down time!

[aaronbassist146]

That looks like so much fun!

[mtksbctk]

pssshhh hipster sport, looks pretty ridiculous really

[nilo2209]

@mtksbctk pssshhh hipster comment.

[BigLucille]

@mtksbctk haha fuck you!

[Joo823]

Cool.

[helloimD4NNY]

That looks ridiculously hard. Especially since you can put your feet on the ground. I wanna try it sometime though. :b

[edhideous]

Damn, everyone talks a big game on the Internet.

[geordsta12]

That does look like fun.

[zampdachamp]

They're just playing the sport and having fun. Relax.

[monoperative]

People will fight over anything. 

[eseventeenbikes]

What a stupid game bloody hipster go get a polo poney and "ride it"

[Lamaggra]

@eseventeenbikes Ha ha ha ha, it is not a hipster sport you elitist prick. Try it some time you might find you aren't nearly as good on a bike as you think you are.

[XxMW2kevinkitkatxX]

@Lamaggra so true i played for the first time last week, and its so fun

[randmham1]

@eseventeenbikes excuse me bike polo is definitely harder than it looks.

[Lukeschedel]

Looks like fun, By the way Fuck all those trolls who comment on this shit lookin for a argument they can go die

[dellthinker]

Retarded

[josephgrovers]

@dellthinker

You?

[dellthinker]

@josephgrovers No you actually. And this hippie ass lame R-Tardish waste of time you call a sport. Go fuck yourself tree huger.

[josephgrovers]

@dellthinker

xD People like you make my day. You go on the internet just looking at videos of people's hobbies just to criticize them. I'm sorry but it seems like you were mad when you wrote that comment, I'll mail you a tampon if you just give me your address, then just comment back when you're off your period. Sounds good? :)

[dellthinker]

@josephgrovers I have a better idea. How about when you stop menstruating we meet up in a public place just so I can punch you in the face :)

[andrewwinke]

@dellthinker and ps the term isnt hippie its hippster dumb ass. 2 completely differnt things

[andrewwinke]

@dellthinker go fuck your self ass hole. what do you do on you free time? jerk off? well i like to get in shape by doing a little bmx. then i might hop on my bike polo bike and get some more exercise in. so how the hell is it a waste of time? maybe you dont like to have fun but that doesnt mean you have to go on youtube and be a winny bitch

[dellthinker]

@andrewwinke Blah blah yada yada, yeah I'd punch your faggot ass too and dare you to do something about it. Next!

[andrewwinke]

@dellthinker that didnt even make sense... how dumb are you? fuckin ignorant asshole

[dellthinker]

@andrewwinke Basically I was mocking your reply about how you like to exorcise and whatnot. But seriously, if you think this 'sport' will tone you up enough to take me in a fight then you're poorly mistaken. Not to brag but I hit the gym lifting iron 3 times a week. I play basketball for cardio and I train with boxers. I'm a Black belt 2nd degree in Tae-Kwon Do and I participate in tournaments. The real fights, so yeah.. I've fought with guys 2x my size, I'm you wouldn't be a problem.

[andrewwinke]

@dellthinker i never said i would fight you dip shit. im hardly 16 years old so oooooo big woop. you can beet up a high schooler. you would look really cool in jail talking about how you got in because you beet up a high schooler. and any way maybe the goal of bike polo isnt getting buff as shit. its still a sport and its in the fucking olympics so suck my dick no one agrees with you

[dellthinker]

@andrewwinke You must be barely 16 if you spell 'beat' with 2 E's. Well then I suppose brute force wouldn't prove anything, that you're correct on son. Then I suppose I'll put you over my knee and beat your ass with my belt like your daddy should have done. Then make you mow my lawn, clean my gutters, do my laundry, take out my trash, wash my car, clean my house and take out the trash. Then if you talk back I'll fuck your mom doggy in front of you.

[andrewwinke]

@dellthinker you mother fucker..... you must be one hateful person. just read your last comment and tell me if you really had to say you were going to rape my mother in front of me. you must have one sad life. i mean your the one who came on this page trying to start a huge fight ragging on hippsters, your the one who 1st brought up the use of force saying you would beat my ass just because i i got in the argument. and on top of that your the mother fucking adult.

[andrewwinke]

@dellthinker so dont try to act all high and mother fucking mighty just because your older then me. because based on what you said to me you sound like you should have been spank much more when you were younger

[josephgrovers]

@andrewwinke

It isn't even my hobby, I've never played bike polo before and I don't have a fixie. At the moment, I only have a road bike and I barely have any time to ride it because I'm too busy running. So get my hobbies right douchebag! :P

[andrewwinke]

@josephgrovers who the hell are you? your not even in this argument.... i didnt say shit to you so why dont you shut up and stop trying to fight me. jesus fuckin christ

[josephgrovers]

@dellthinker

How about before you threaten us with something that will never happen because you're such a fatass, you go get in shape and suggest to us a better hobby than this instead of being a fatass and criticizing peoples' hobbies instead. You'll never be able to accomplish the athletic achievements that I've been able to accomplish in my life, I'm not even close to being done with it either. Fatass...

[dellthinker]

@josephgrovers Fatass? And you determined my weight and athletic capabilities by looking at my screen name? I don't have pics posted on my account and I'm not gonna send you any just to prove to you that I'm not because that's just simply gay. I will say this though, fuck your hobby, fuck you and anyone else here that thinks otherwise. Have a nice day hippie ;)

P.S. Go hang yourself, twice if it's possible.

[sp4zzj4zz]

@thef3ralchyld nah, sorry brah...she was just wondering if you were a fag, cause her flamer cousin is single

[b3n000]

Stop feeding the trolls.

Where is a canibal troll when you need one?

[BakuretsuKoinu]

I want to play sooo bad!

[TubeTripping]

Hipsters...

[Karmalita]

this looks soooooo hyppeee!

[s0ccerk1d07]

... so hard but yet so fun

[mdSphoto]

hipsters

[joelandwadesmom]

nice explanation of game play/rules with examples. Voices/footage well coordinated for the notice (me!) to understand game rules. thanks.

[cokechokehokeoke]

hipster scum

[AntiRascist]

Hipsters don't play polo..

[randmham1]

@cokechokehokeoke fuck you

[cokechokehokeoke]

@randmham1

you know its true, thats why it hurts your ironic soul in such a way

[12809inthetubes]

@cokechokehokeoke basement-dweller slime

[VIDEOARTER]

poloschlaeger . de

[anthonysiracusa]

Putting your mallet under somebody's else's wheel is super dirty....like bathing in swamp water.

[ncsquirll]

you do what you can to win... i have had someone flip the mallet and stick the other end into my spokes... i now have spoke covers.

[anthonysiracusa]

No you don't. Not sure if you've ever played in a tournament, but I can't think of any city in the world that allows "malleting." There aren't many rules in HCBP, but this is definitely one of them. Plus, winning is never more important than having fun, and it's not fun when you put somebody out of the game after they're injured because you put your mallet under their front wheel. And spoke covers have nothing to do with getting malleted. How would they stop someone malleting you?

[mattyai]

yeah stealing is cool

[Bluewo1f]

good idea! fun looking sport

[palucha66]

I played this today pretty fun

[dumbamerica]

bicycle sword fighting would be more fun.

[sail247]

they have bike jousting

[illdthedj]

a friend hosts a bike joust in oakland every so often. it can get brutal....fun though! plus with all the people that come to watch....beyond thunderdome comes to mind lol

[sharaldson]

Putting a mallet under another's wheel is not dirty. It's awesome!

[imgoingto187you]

putting the mallet under another's wheel is a dirty move.

[GRHebard]

great video.

NYT always does a good job

[Oxycodone48]

fuckin cool shit mighn