Polo Fever!
Hi everyone,
This week there are some bike events in Chaoyang Park going on around the topic of promoting low-carbon cycling and cycle touring.
Bicycle polo is getting more popular, so we are organizing some more bike polo sessions for everyone to try and get the bike polo fever. Ellen has a female friend who has never ridden a fixed gear bike before, but she played so well last week and even scored a goal! So what are you waiting for now?! Just come and play! Nothing is more sexy than sweating in summer! Oh, btw, please also don’t forget to drink enough water.
Wednesday morning event to promote cycling as a low carbon tranport
8:00 am: Meet at Chaoyang Park South Gate, then ride bike INSIDE the Chaoyang Park
9:30 am: Ceremony at the square near South gate with celebrities as well as Ines doing her trick bike show, to promote cycling.
Please tell your friends (that ride any kind of bike). If you are interested in participating or just watching the trick bike show, please contact us. Then we can make sure that there is a bicycle water bottle, hat, T-shirt and maybe other stuff for you
Wednesday Bike Polo
5.45 pm: Meet at Natooke to grab some mallots (we will also take some extra ones)
6.00-8.00 pm: Bike Polo at Ditan Park West gate (just off Andingmen Waidajie). You are welcome to join at any time as it is open and free
Thursday Road Race Practice
7.30 meet at Natooke and then at 8.00 pm we head out together to the Olympic forest to cycle some do some laps
Friday Bike Polo
5.45 pm: Meet at Natooke to grab some mallots(we will also take some extra ones)
6.00-8.00 pm: Bike Polo at Ditan Park West gate (just off Andingmen Waidajie). Just come and join us there if you’re late
Sunday morning event for low-carbon cycling in China
9:00 am: Beijing Chaoyang Park square near South gate (We have 20 tickets, let us know if you want to go)
Hope to see you at one of the events!
Ines & the Natooke Team
Polo
Last Wednesday the sudden thunder storm forced us to cancel the bike polo event. But the polo game on Friday was on! Jason came all the way from Tianjin just to play polo. Our friend Ellen came back from Macau to take a 4 days holiday and also joined the game, and even one German guy we met on the way joined us.
New Natooke Bikes
The past 7 days we had some nice bikes that we put together at Natooke:
First one: Beautiful bike in the NATOOKE colors green and pink.
Second one: A customer had requested us to have “Fixed Gear For Fun” written on it. The complete build up process was documented by photographer Peter Carney. looking forward to watching the time lapse movie of it.
Third one: If you have a rolling pin too much in the kitchen or never make noodles, then just use your rolling pin as handlebars.
Fresh Stuff
New cranks arrived at Natooke shop. They are great quality and look good. Drop by and have a look for yourself. In addition, we have now a special place where customers can put the bike frame and rims and other parts to make it easier to chose the perfect color combination.
Yanqing Bike Race
At Saturday’s bike race there was strong competition form professional cyclists. Natooke’s friends (that usually ride fixed gear) achieved good results. Zhang Nan: 11th; Shannon: 20th; Garth: 34th; Ricky: 40th; Ines: Women 5th. Shannon wrote a nice article about the men’s road bike race for Cycling News Asia. The pictures are taken from http://qqride.com