Our very own Mr. Do will be touring the major NAH tournaments this year, providing us, through the intimacy only the glow of our computer monitors can provide, a livestream of hot polo action at bikepolo.tv.
Check it out the project, here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/livestreamed-bike-polo-championships
Everything adds up, so donate what you can! ‘Do’ swag upon various giving levels include can coozies and t-shirts designed by Mr. Do’s daughter!
We’ve been working hard with a few saws, a grip of drills and whole lotta screws.
Just check out those beefy 2×6 braces in the background. We pumped out over a 115 in the past two days.
The 8th Midwest Bike Polo Championships will have great courts.
We are hard at work putting the finishing touches on our courts for the 8th Midwest Bike Polo Championships in May. We’ve reclaimed enough scrap wood to make brace supports for all three courts. Creating as little waste as possible is important to us and we’re tickled that a tornado damaged barn will supply enough material to create our court’s brace structure.
Jerry our resident engineer and handy man, mocked up these prototype board sections. The prototypes look solid and with thicker plywood will make for three top notch, identical and strong courts. Each court will be 120′ x 62′ with not square but squared off corners. The boards behind the goal will be at least 40″ tall. Check out the photos below.
When MPLS Bike Polo put out a call to our network that we were looking for lumber to build boards for MWBPC8, Bob was the first to respond. He had a friend out in the burbs whose barn had fought a tornado and lost. The tornado ripped roofs off the barn and pump house and deposited them in different directions a couple hundred feet away. Marty was lucky that day as Bob put it, “The tornado gently pulled one single line of shingles off his house, like the finger of god tasting the icing on a cupcake.”
One benefit of the tornado was that two goats and a horse that were once mortal enemies became fast friends that windy night in August.
Marty saved this lumber since last August hoping that it would be able to be reused by someone, anyone, rather than burning it. He had burned enough over the past year. Over 25 storm damaged trees piled high in a huge bonfire. All in all we probably scavenged several hundred dollars worth of 2x4s and 2x6s.
We’ll have to do some work before they are ready to convert into bike polo boards, but we’re up to the challenge.