Milwaukee Bike Polo Club

Mbpc is headed to New York yet again, For this years Espi. Boston hosted the tourney last year and Milwaukee’s own Beaver Boys took 2nd place. We are looking to take home the trophy this year.

This court is SICK! surface is smooth and just the right size. Great play off the boards. Shade trees just outside the fence. Room to expand and add 2nd, 3rd , or 4th court. future possible tournament location…..

Located at Washington Park on Milwaukee’s westside, at 41st/W Washignton Blvd and Vliet St, 3 miles west of downtown Milwaukee. This park was designed by Frederick law Olmsted, the same guy who did Central Park in NYC and is really a huge great park with a pool, lagoon, and the world class Urban Ecology Center all within the park.

Find us here Sundays at 2pm till sunset.  Weekday schedule, rookie nights coming soon.

We welcome new players as well as spectators.  Come and enjoy a  day in the park and spectate some world class bike polo!!!

Beaver boys on podium taking first place at MWBPC8 in MPLS

CONGRATULATIONS
Beaver Boys place 1st out of 44 teams at the 8th Midwest Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships. Joe Burge, Brian Dillman, and Eric Kremin (in photo) slayed the game going undefeated the whole weekend.

Much love and thanks to MPLS Bike Polo Inc. for throwing a great tournament. Your local weatherman should be fired though. Huge love to the Dillman family for hosting a bunch of drunk idiots from Milwaukee. I’m still craving a sloppy joe from Brian’s mom, and Pat, I’ll get your PBR workshirt in the mail.

Thanks again to Armahn for helping me with all the court lumber and loading up a uhaul to the brim in 90 degree and humid monday. Armahn continue to kill the support game and loves to have fun

Also big props to Matt Hewwit, Boom, and Atwell for tying in 5th place and Space Dokken(Jake, Guthrie, Lief) placing 9th.

As usual check out some sick photos by Dane Haman  from the weekend http://www.flickr.com/photos/danehaman/sets/72157624174275650/

Thanks as usual to PBR, Milwaukee Bike Co, and Beans and Barley for their support of our club!

Our dearest friend Chombo was involved in an accident a few days ago. “I woke up on the pavement, spitting out teeth and blood after clearly being unconscious for an undetermined period of time….I think I may have been sideswiped by a delivery car. I woke up alone and injured….poured peroxide on my face….I found my teeth on the ground just by simply following the blood trail….p.s. I had a helmet on!” – Chombo

Chombo has no insurance and no one to sue that pants off to pay for his new grill. Please please donate some money to our injured friend, so that he may eat corn off the cob and slay goals around the world!

follow the link and click donate tax deductible donation here

bizzy beaverz

Congrats to the Bizzy Beaverz on their re-peat victory!
2nd place- Sharks (matt h and ben s)
3rd place- Already taken (jon A, ben h)
4th place- Madarroll (jonny h , matt l)
5th place- Wacka flacka (jake, lodi)
6th place – Space Dokken (guthrie, sean)

see Dane’s pics here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danehaman/sets/72157623900125446/

4 swiss rounds to seed a double elim tourney. I was afraid we wouldn’t have time but with 19 teams registered we made it with the final match happening minutes before sunset.

Big thanks to Marco from NYC for coming out for the weekend- he won furthest traveled and now has a set of PBR suspenders and some other swag

our graphic designer Armahn won a polo-guard from Milwaukee Bike Co. basically for doing all our graphics and suppling the fun! all the time without much gratitude from the rest of us. check him out at
www.facebook.com/armahn

Big thanks to our sponsors !!!
Pabst Blue Ribbon and our main man Christian!!!
Beans and Barley for the coffee and bagels www.beansandbarley.com
Milwaukee Bike Co. for continuous support www.benscycle.net
Fyxation Tire Co. for some decent tires for some jerks who ride 26″ haha www.fyxation.com
www.eighthinch.com for some franklin balls
shag bags for the sweet wallets shagbags@gmail.com

Special thanks goes to Brain Dillman who threw this thing together last minute with some help from his friends.

Big ups to Madison and Chicago …MKE loves you all!

Big thanks to Jonny Hunter for helping us run the swiss rounds properly

First run of club stickers are in and ready to snag up.  We’re really pleased how they turned out.

Thanks Zach, for taking the time and energy to get these going.  Stickers measure 2″x2″ and are available now.  Contact through e-mail and tell us how much you love MKE Bike Polo and we’ll be sure to send a few out to you.

Stickers

The Milwaukee Messenger Invitational, in it’s 9th year, is the city’s largest alleycat. Come Friday night and expect a great time, ride the race Saturday, play a tournament Sunday. The 2v2 format was adapted last year and at least for now, is here to stay.

Since most of us live in this part of town housing near the court will be abundant

$20 per team

Alright people we have a flyer now no reason not to sign up. MKE will be hookin it up with prizes there will be pizza and beer. MPLS get here, CHI get here, MAD get here STL get here, LEX get here, and everyone else in the midwest get here. Friday night there are multiple parties going on. Including a reopening of the old Pabst brewery as a gallery space for 1 night. The after party will be at the same bar we got were at last year on friday. Come drink dollar beers.  The bar is like 2 blocks from everyone and the courts. Word is that kremin will be rolling around the race on saturday with beers ferdays. Join him on a booze cruise or race the most competitive race in the city put on by Cog Mag. Bottom line is SIGN UP!

Email me for housing request

P.S WIN SOME PRIZES FROM FYXATION TIRE CO.!!!!

brian@mkebikepolo.com

photo by Dane Haman www.flickr.com/danehaman

Hopefully Dillman has recovered from this nut shot enough to compete in this weekend’s Bench Minor Tournament in the Big Apple!
5 teams of 12 players each, comprised of all stars from across North America, will converge to play a more hockey style game with line changes, penalty box, and scoop shots counting as goals at The Pit.

Our hometown A list will be attending but are split up between the teams so all allegiances will be forgotten, past teammate comradery broken down, and a struggle to the top will ensue.

Will report back with results next week!

Spring is peaking around corner.  This season will be epic.

Judgment as been amended and we will be charged with trespassing on land rather than trespassing a dwelling.  Our next court appearance is on May 19th and we will be  pleading Not Guilty to the new charges.   After this we will be meeting with the Sheriff’s department, Milwaukee County parks, and the DA to agree on a location that is suitable for both parties.  The stipulation for getting the charges dismissed is we are to clean-up & repair the court that is decided “ours”.  Overall we are very happy the DA has realized the importance of keeping a positive relationship between the Sheriff’s, County Parks, and MKE Bike Polo.