Bike Polo: Dorky, Awesome, Or Both Dorky And Awesome?

By Corey Pein

The few picnicking families who wandered by Herb Martinez Park this

sunburntastic

Easter weekend looked bewildered and amused by the dozens of colorfully plumed, fancy-bike'd hipsters who gathered at the street hockey court for a multi-state

bike polo tournament

.

Never heard of bike polo? One participant summarized it as the "

dorkiest bicycle sport ever

." See for yourself:

SFR has no idea who won or anything like that. Teams came from

Albuquerque

, Colorado, Arizona, Texas and California—but Santa Fe was

woefully unrepresented

.

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