I don’t know how I’ve never seen this video before. I loves me some electro-music to zone out and do design/artwork. Rumor has it Kraftwerk has been the dudes since back in the day for that genre of music, not to mention their sweet use of international style typography and the whole cycling thing.
I don’t actually know much about them but I plan to listen to them while I work today.
So while Marcus was researching the new Canon DSLR that’s about to be or maybe is on the market… he came across this video that he shared with me. The sport is like, as he put it, “upgraded bike polo”. (For those not familiar with bike polo think horse polo and then substitute bicycles for the horses.)
So then I obviously had to know.. is this a real sport or some sort of hipster/photography exercise in doing ridiculous things to show off both bicycle and camera prowess.
I found, to my glee…
Radball is a legit sport.. and it looks wild. This second video is titled “Cycle-ball / Radball UCI world championships Romania vs Malaysia part 1” it looks pretty official to me… I recommend watching numerous other videos as well, the handling skills are unreal.
I only became aware of bicycle polo recently – – and it’s pretty cool. As spring approaches you will most likely be able to find the Syracuse Bike Polo folks out wheelin’ around Barry Park near the University / Westcott area.
I’m curious if anyone will build up some of these wild looking bikes and start nurturing a local Radball culture.
I got an email yesterday from USAT saying I’m in consideration for Team USA for 2012 ITU Short Course Duathlon World Championships in Nancy, France. The World Championship is set to take place September 22-23… I replied saying I would love to be considered… now all I can do is wait… and train
This renews my awareness to the fact I still have to do a substantial amount of sponsorship work.. Wool Sports, Mello Velo and M&J Coaching stands by BTB here as the 2012 season approaches, helping a great deal to keep the dream with in reach. However I still need to come up with a large amount of finances to get to these destination races. The cool thing is that if I am selected for France, I could potentially be ‘over there’ in Switzerland already and have perfect timing for trans continental logistics and level of fitness as the Powerman World Championship is September 2nd in Zofingen.
So, feasibly I may only need to come up with cash for 1 round trip airfare.. still don’t actually have a functioning aero bike – but we can only work with we got, some day the gear will come but for now I’m content to kick the shit out of pros with whatever I’ve got laying around.
I’m totally open to any leads for sponsorship assistance. If I could choose, I prefer to help promote local Syracuse / New York companies that know what hard work is. I’m not very good about talking myself up to places so I may enlist my dad as my manager for these kind of discussions. After all he knows what it’s about as he is getting all dialed in for his Ironman 70.3 Age Group World Championship in 2012 as well.
That’s it for the update, 2012 is gonna be huge! See you out there.
Yep. It’s on the calendar.
Participating: Bob Hadzor, Randy Hadzor… See you there?.. or is it “too early in the season”
Today is awesome! Starting last night with some wild winds whipping around in the dark and to wake up this morning with a little white stuff on the ground that just kept accumulating! Above is a better picture of the mythical Frankenbike I made reference to in my last post.
Frequent BTB accomplice Jamie Trevvett had organized a group of folks to meet up to run the 4mile course of the Tipp Hill Shamrock Run that is happening March 10th. The Frankenbike was the first to arrive, and on its way it would rest in the snow next to the road as I helped one van and one truck get up over the crest of slippery hills and on with their journey.
What a great day to go for a 4 mile trudge! After many found warm coffee and couches much more appealing than slippery roads Jamie showed up we had a great run.
Not to mention the snow makes for excellent bicycle handling practice. ie; How fast can you take the downhill turn in the park by leaning and applying force down on the outside handle bar. Also good practice I found was attempting 10-15 foot area figure eights using copious pressure down on outside bar, quite a bit of leaning out of the turn, and a little pulling up on the inside bar, while doing little half pedal strokes to turn at the tightest radius possible. Yet another – one handed turns, again pushing on the outside bar and trying not touch the inside bar or letting the panicked foot come down.
That is all. I hope everyone else was able to get outside and play in the snow and that if you must traverse treacherous roads your survived your adventure unscathed.
enjoy.
Hey all. Brief update here, despite the glorious giant flakes of snow seen today in Central New York, spring is just around the corner. The CNY Triathlon Winter Training Facility has just announced they’ll only be open for another month and a half.
old unfinished portrait of the frankenbike… now it has fenders and all.. it’s awesome
This winter has been a good one thus far. The miles have been adding up on the ol’ Frankenbike single speed commuter traversing all over Syracuse this winter and I don’t know about yous guys, but I’m itching to race a little. A couple local-ish running and road cycling races are starting to pop up on the calendar for the near future. Not sure but I might just have to jump in and race Battenkill.. looking forward to a nice 4miler in the neighborhood over at the Tip Hill Run always good to see some familiar faces, it a fun race too where the whole community comes out to yell. Not sure what else quite yet.. the taste of indoor track air isn’t the greatest.. I may prefer the stinging sleet of running and riding out side it’s been a while since I’d felt that deep burn followed by days of coughing.
Speaking of fun indoor sporting…
BTB has expanded its realm into the world of soccer! Where Sarah and a great group of girls play under the title sponsor, Lamont Tavern out at the Jones Road sports complex. Following next weeks winter break they will be competing in the Finals on Thursday, March 1st.
As the winter temperatures and spotty precipitation continues, keep doing what ever it is you do! There are lots of great things going on. We’ve been having a blast at Mello Velo, spinning in the café for what they call ‘Hump-Day Rump-Day’ riding bicycles indoors on Wednesdays; we spin, do a little work out, then frequently end up eating delicious foods near by.
Run, bike, lift, swim, snowshoe, ski, crossfit, soccer, lacrosse, hockey, what is your favorite winter time activity? Let us know in the comments below!
enjoy!
After a two week change of pace of running with the Sunday morning Angottis crew, I was in need of the training magic only available in the Tully valley. I waited till the temp broke 20 degrees and started out south into a cold wind out of the south. Warm and toasty in my tech clothes and cycling mittens I got into a sweet groove with funk coming from my headphones.
Today was a feel good run and I was not out to push the pace. The second half of the 9 mile run was fueled by a 30 minute rendition of “Picking up the pieces” by AWB. Just what the doctor ordered! By the way, those guys just can’t be from Scotland!! -B