Keyword results: Bikes
What:
Bikes Rock! BFF Opening Party
Where:
Hi-Fi Bar and Ballroom, Basement, 125 Swanston St., Melbourne
When:
NEXT WEEK! Thurs Nov 20, 8pm
How much:
$15 +BF from here
Description:
This is the second time that the Bicycle Film Festival has mounted its dual wheels of devilry in Melbourne, and the opening night next week is setting the bar high. Speak n Spell are curating this show with favourites MY DISCO, Mountains in the Sky, and Super Wild Horses wreaking havoc upon your eardrums.
Event: Party
Stimulus: sound the horns!
What:
Very First Melbourne Bike Polo Tournament
Where:
Royal Exhibition Building, Cnr Rathdowne and Queensberry Sts, Carlton
When:
Sun Oct 5, from 12noon
How much:
Team of three $15, individual $5, spectators free!
Email melbourne.bicycle.polo.blue@gmail.com
Description
Bike Polo is pretty much famous in every other continent but ours. All - around - the - world - hipsters are mounting bicycles and swooping balls with ski-pole-like apparatus. And, boy, do they love it. This Sunday, the Melbourne Bike Tournament will be one bloody, sweaty, gritty showdown.
Event: Party
Stimulus: sound the horns!
Most bike services favour cyclists in lycra, zipping about the countryside on their days off. But the average kid cycling daily to their place of work and play has needs, too. The brain behind Commuter Cycles was once a frustrated cyclist, with one hand on the handlebars and the other fisting the air at the lack of workshops for everyday bikers.
The great thing about Melbourne is it's super flat. No hills. No mountains. No volcanos or steep inclines. If you have a bike and a functioning pair of legs it's crazy easy to get around the place - just point yourself in whichever direction you need to go and you're away.
Mind you, bikes aren't indestructible.
The urban plains of concrete don't need to be trimmed, prepped or fit for royalty. You do have to make your own mallet, but you save on stable fees. Bicycle Polo is the big thing in NY and Vancouver, especially Vancouver, and now it is here. Or, to be specific, it's in Rathdowne Street and behind the Northcote Social Club.
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