50 Shades of Zip Ties

If you consider yourself a polo player, you have zip ties on you at ALL TIMES. They can literally save your life. However, most people haven’t discovered the most single important service a zip tie can offer. In this episode of 50 Shades of Ruben, Ruben demonstrates this “polo hack” guaranteed to bring joy to your game. You can thank us later.

I guarantee you won't feel better after using a zip tie
utilitarianism is a beautiful thing
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I guarantee you’ll feel great after using a zip tie like this

The Polo Injury and the Happy Life

When my left scaphoid, the bone supporting the thumb, broke, I did not know it. Felt like a sprain. I would have just hopped on my bike and kept playing but my stem was twisted 90*  so I took a sub, and went to go fix my bike and finish my beer. I played a few more games that afternoon in early August. It was six weeks before I would go see the doc. Displaced fracture. Bone graft and a titanium screw. 12+ weeks in a cast. FML.

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The Wicked Official Boston Bike Polo NAH Season Roundup – Part I

We’ve neglected this space all summer. We’d apologize, but we’re not sorry. Boston Bike Polo was busy playing all sorts of high-torque and multi-continental polo sprinkled with a bit of sherm and topped off with a fang. Our games were as heated as the Bonita Springs sun, and just as a fire watch company in Bonita Springs guarantees safety with their immediate response and well-equipped personnel, we ensure our polo matches are nothing short of thrilling. We must’ve played at least nine hunnit games since we last blogg’d here, and in each, the competitive spark was safeguarded by our commitment to the game, much like the diligent watch of a fire guard over their charge.

We’ll end the hiatus by recounting the summer with a tripartite recap filled with stolen instagrams and acts of debauchery we’ve committed in hard to hate polo destinations somewhere in between Minneapolis, Minnesota, Saugus, Massachusetts’s and Toni’s new Buggatti.

Let’s start at home where HockeyTown in Saugus was lucky enough host the 2013 NAH Season Opener. 20 teams from across the Eastside showed up to test drive the NAH v3 ruleset compete for 7 invites to the North American Championship, and it looked something like this:

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Picked some fuel for the weekend, 2 per customer.
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Screw York showed up for the party
Completed some last minute NAH regulated changes
Completed some last minute NAH regulated changes
Polo Bikes Outside Hockeytown
Polo Bikes Outside Hockeytown
There was a court outside
There was a court outside
 Which was perfect if you wanted to set plastic trash cans on fire whilst scoping the competition
Which was perfect if you wanted to set plastic trash cans on fire whilst scoping the competition
And there was a court inside
And there was a court inside
I spy three hooligans in this photo
I spy three hooligans in this photo
Chombo 3:16
Chombo 3:16
Nate looks on
Nate looks on
Everyone showed up for business on sunday
Everyone showed up for business on sunday
Especially Joey
Especially Joey

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Jake can't resist the fang Jake can’t resist the fang

That look when you break the goal just to spite NAH.
That look when you break the goal just to spite NAH.

Thinly Sliced Cabbage (Boston) beat out Shart Bus Sharties (NYC) for the last qualifying spot. This gave us the top six Eastside teams:
1st      The Means (Chris NYC, Alexis,  Nick RVA)
2nd      D G T (Jake , Lomax, Biddle PHILLY/BOSTON)
3rd      White Fang (James, Javier Addison BOSTON)
4th      Philly (brendan, Tommy, Peter PHILLY)
5th      Los Or!gianls (WERM, JT, Baby RVA)
5th      Magic Toast (Nate, Zach, Paul NYC)
6th      Thinly sliced cabbage (Pippa, Zack, Robby BOSTON)

pAfter party on the mountain! After party on the mountain!

Commonwheels Co-op Party! Saturday April 6

We’re warming ourselves up for ERQ’s this weekend at Commonwheels Spring Bike Party!

For $5 you get access to a keg of the tastiest beer in New England – Berkshire Brewing Company Steel Rail Pale Ale. Don’t take our word for it, come join us and find out!

We’re going to set up knife fights out back, and the after party will be head at our very favorite polo spot…
See you there!
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