Milwaukee Bike Polo Club

For V brakes, about $30 anyone ever use one? click photo for ebay link

OK the time is nearing… more info will shortley be becoming available.

What you will want to do now if you have qualified is book your flights. Fly into MKE or else fly into Chicago and take a bus/train up to Milwaukee. The Amtrak is cheap or the megabus or greyhound but they charge for bikes. You might actually save money by just flying straight to MKE if possible. From the airport take the Green line bus or the 80 bus into the city.  Either way is cool depending on what neighborhood you are going to.

Working on hotel deals but the tournament weekend is the last weekend of  The World’s Largest Musical Festival and may cause some issues at least with getting a deal.  If you need a hotel to stay in they are cheap so book it now. If you want to stay at a house let Birdie know she will be coordinating that.

Umm so we will be creating a page on this website and primarily using this blog to get any new info out to you all.

Team Wisconsin 2012

The Bench style format is picking up steam across the country and the world. The Midwest region held its version this past weekend in Bloomington, Indiana.  Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Kentucky, Missouri, Michigan, and Ohio competed for the glory. No prizes except for a trophy(more on that later in the post). It was set up world cup style with two groups of 4 playing a round robin then seeding them for cross group play on Sunday.  Wisconsin routed Ohio 24-11 the first game then won a  come from behind squeaker against KY 9-7. With daylight fading our 3rd game against Missouri was pushed to the next morning. In an effort to gain a  slight edge and extra hour of sleep WI and MO traded Ohio and KY a liter of Kinnickinic Whiskey and 30 rack of PBR for the 10am game time slot instead of the 9am slot.

Saturday night WI took advantage of having Jonny Hunter on our team and stayed in to cook food on the grill and had some killer steak and grilled veggies. In typical “doing it all the time” fashion we still went out to hit the town. Went to some house party we had supposedly been invited too but as we got there and grabbed a drink and started dancing, less than 3 minutes, which might be a record, we were kicked out with someone coming by saying “bike polo has got to go”. So we left into the streets looking for some more trouble.  Eventually we all headed back to Zach’s to crash for the night.

With little time in the morning we stopped at the Kroger’s for some breakfast snacks and some poor old lady with handicapped tags was either stealing a car or her alarm was stuck on. She couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so she just drove away with it blaring the car alarm. As we rode to the courts we could still hear her off in the distance somewhere. She probably had the most embarrassing Easter Sunday ever, I’m just picturing her rolling up to church with that alarm going off…. we hurried to the courts and warmed up a bit and caught the end of the KY v OH game.

The game round robin against MO was largely a shit show, no need to go into it too much, you can watch the video of the complete game if you wish.  In the end though we pulled it out by one point to secure 1st place in a tough Group B. That meant we would then take on the 2nd place team from Group A, Minnesota. We won in a  15-10 game that featured lots of missed opportunities for our team but we were able to pull out the win to face MO in the finals.  The final match was much cleaner by both teams and WI jumped out to a good lead and held on to win 15-7.

Now on one hand I would like to give props to MN for playing a tough game and giving it there all and showing great teamwork even in a loss but on the other I take it all back due to them stealing our trophy while I was dropping off Pierre at the bus stop and others were playing pick up basketball.  Brian and Kremin may have had lots of chances to celebrate victories but myself and the rest of our team rarely get to feel that feeling of heading to the bar or out to dinner after a tournament and show off the trophy we won for all our hard polo playing.  Its one thing to steal a flag or a jersey or even some shitty wood, its another to steal something on this level. The trophy is being returned though and we’ll hold a parade down Wisconsin Ave this weekend.

Pick up Basket ball is the new bike polo

In an effort to quell the bad blood we offered a bottle of Rehorst Gin to team MO

members of team MO receive their gift

Thanks to Bloomington Bike Polo for hosting the event and to all of our friends in the Midwest for making this super fun. Thanks to the rest of Team Wisconsin for playing your hearts out and  great tournament fellas!  Can not wait for 2013! who is hosting??????

-Captain Jake

If you weren’t at Washington Park Polo Courts today here’s what you missed…..

Sunshine savings occurred last night so that meant another hour of polo playing time. That in itself may have been enough to call it a great early March day in MKE.  But in typical MBPC fashion we made so much more out of it. After some e-conversations with Papa Johns in Milwaukee they hooked us up with 3 large pizzas to give us fuel for all day of super bike polo. Thanks Papa Johns! Everyone enjoyed it and it helped us get through those extra daylight hours without having to go home early for dinner.

Then after enjoying a few pbrshotgun‘s wait… wait… did you see that move!??! We found a new friend the TUMBLE WEAVE, The Dream Weaver.

We also got in some good games for practice for the Riverside Bike Polo Tournament coming up in two weeks, as well as line practice for The Battle for Middle West Bench format in Bloomington, IN..Indiana – I hope you don’t get sick of us and tell the bars to stock up on PBR and Great Lakes Distillery products

These blog posts are hard to do for my technically illiterate self so if someone will teach me how to use this thing it will make for better blog posts. So until that day what you see is what you get. They also take a long time…I’m gonna go chill on the damn couch after my tiring day of polo and fun. Thanks everyone!

This is real polo.

World Class Polo from Mr.Do on Vimeo.

Nice little video out of Strasbourg France. Cool court I might have to make this a destination spot this summer.

Bike Polo of autumn, 2011 from Strasbourg Bike Polo on Vimeo.

LADIES ARMY II – ESPI V / SUMMER 2010 NYC from Marine Lafite on Vimeo.

Blast from the past. Few things I won’t forget number one how hot it was, RVA slaying NYC, Brians trick shot on matt lane, Alexis dekeing the shit out of Burge, Burge putting Leon over the boards then beating Smile in over time, scoop shots and other stupid menace rules.

Winter Party/fundraiser from MKE Bike Polo on Vimeo.

Thanks so much to all those who donated prizes: PBR, Great Lakes Distillery, The Noble, Sabbatic, Transfer Pizza, Times Square pizza, Bomb Shelter, Mary’s Hamburgers, Harbor Room, Bayview Brew Haus, Salon Thor, Stag Barber Shop, Fuel, Hotel Foster, Hinterland, Ray’s Mtn bike park,

Thanks to those who showed up you are awesome and know how to not be a straight bum when it comes to having fun!

Well wishes to Kari who was injured during her first minibike race:(

We raised $35 for kids in the Washington Park neighborhood so we will probably just hold on to that until we raise enough money to do some good with it .

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