Re: [CR]Polo bikes

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From: "devotion finesse" <devotion_finesse@hotmail.com>
To: raf.gio@gmail.com, beandk@rcn.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Polo bikes
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:02:52 -0400


There was also a New York Times article a couple of months back about the growing interest here among the messenger/fixed crowd:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/sports/othersports/27polo.html?ex=1335326400&en=c45782b46eba7670&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt

Matthew Bowne Brooklyn, New York


>From: "Raffaele Giordano" <raf.gio@gmail.com>
>To: beandk@rcn.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR]Polo bikes
>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:49:38 +0200
>
>Hello David,
>unfortunately I do not have any info on the whole scene, I know is
>being revived on the streets of London and elsewhere, by fixed kids.
>Here are some pics at the York Rally last June. All examples are steel
>lugged English bike polo frames:
>
>http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=624402330&size=l
>http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=624278400&size=l
>http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1132/623337851_e1196cc554_b.jpg
>
>Here is the whole set at York
>
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertomedeiros/sets/72157600484367765/
>
>Taken by my mate Roberto.
>
>Cheers
>Raffaele
>Stockholm, Sweden.
>
>On 03/08/07, David Bean <beandk@rcn.com> wrote:
> > I was looking at on-line Claud Butler catalogs and was struck by the
>polo
> > bikes he made. Does anyone have one or know where pictures and more
>info
> > could be found?
> >
> > David Bean
> > Arlington, MA
> > beandk at are-see-enn dot com