Polo is a bunch of people on horses with mallets, hitting a wooden ball from one side of a field to another, and the players are usually associated with a high-tax bracket. Well, take out the horses and put 'em on bikes. That's what is going on in Ann Arbor. The article has video, by the way.
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Bike polo is like regular rich people pony polo except that players
ride bicycles instead of steeds and participants are less likely to be
named Davenport, Reginald or Captain
Chester Demetrius Applebottom. Most bike polo players use
fixed-gear bicycles to free up their hands and allow tracking - standing
or balancing in one place. Bike polo mallets are constructed from ski
poles attached to high-density polyurethane heads made from plastic
pipes used in gas stations.
Some polo players wear helmets. Some
bandannas. A few rely only on their lustrous hair to protect their
melons, though there aren't a lot of falls.
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