It's Called Bike Polo; the Players Face Off Sunday Afternoons On Orange Street

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In a downtown parking lot on Sunday afternoons, the sport of kings meets the city's spokes folks.

It's polo, but in this case, the riders have handlebars, not reins, and they place their feet on pedals instead of in stirrups. Also, there's no clip-clopping of horses' hooves.

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It's Called Bike Polo; the Players Face Off Sunday Afternoons On Orange Street

And the polo mallets? They're homemade.

"I made this one a month ago," says New Havener Dan Nugent, 24, in between games at the weekly bike polo match on Orange Street. "I found an old walking stick for a shaft."

If ever there was an anti-sport, urban bike pol...

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