John Altdorfer

Hammer Time

BY MELISSA MEINZER

Lindsay Welsh, poised atop her mount, deftly reaches around her back and swings her mallet hard behind her, rocketing the fist-sized red polo ball away from her team’s goal and toward the other.

Welsh, in a T-shirt that says “I [bike] PGH,” a tiny-brimmed cap and jeans, isn’t at a country club, and she’s not riding a pony, either. She’s swinging her mallet from astride a bike in an old street-hockey rink below the Bloomfield Bridge, in a loosely organized, twice-weekly session of bike polo.

“We’ve been playing since last summer,” says Brad Quartuccio, who is the editor of Urban Velo, a city-cycling magazine, and a regular at polo nights. “It’s kind of been picking up everywhere nationwide as part of the greater urban bike culture.”

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