1970’s Polo Bike

We found this polo bike over at First Flight Bikes:

Mid 1970’s Polo bike. Made in Chicago(?) for bicycle polo. The bike uses a single speed freewheel with a Shimano rear disk brake. The handlebars are shortened to be able to swing the mallet.

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Published
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Urban Jeff
on November 14, 2008
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3 Responses to “1970’s Polo Bike”

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  1. 1 Shiny Flu
    November 14, 2008 at 11:21 am

    Did 1970’s polo also include having the forks the wrong way?

    I guess it would give you 0 rake handling…

  2. 2 focofixedgear
    November 16, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    yeah, that whole backwards fork thing…a little strange. i think even ‘WAY BACK in the 70’s’ they knew which way it was supposed to go. possibly a rebuild by someone?

  3. 3 brad
    November 16, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    I’d bet that fork is mounted correct for the desired handling characteristics. As an example, bikes built for motor pacing sometimes have the fork mounted “backwards” like this.

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