Nashville Rules

Here are the bike polo rules that we play by:

-Two teams of three players.
-You can use any type of bike, as long as the handlebars are plugged.

-Mallets should be made of aluminum pipe with a end resembling a croquet mallet. The handle end should be plugged, and there should no exposed metal protruding. Except for bolt.
-Red or Orange street hockey balls will be used.

-Goals are two cones, set apart the same width as street hockey.

-If you mess up the goal, it is your responsibility to fix it.
-Scoring a goal must be made from what started as a hit. A hit is made from the end of a players mallet.

-A shuffle does not count as a goal.
-After a goal is scored, the team who scored returns to their half of the court. The team who was scored on takes possession of the ball.
-Passing through the goal (from behind the goal line to in front of it, through the goal): When the ball is passed through the goal in this way, a goal CANNOT be scored by the first player to play the ball. It must be passed first, before any shot on goal. This inclued when the ball misses the goal, but bounces back through the goal.
-Players must not touch the ground with their foot. If a player puts his/her foot on the ground (foot-down) the player cannot continue play until he has gone half court and tapped his/her mallet at half court.

-Contact rules: similar contact is allowed. Bike to Bike, Mallet to Mallet, Body to Body.

-Pushing and shoving with your hand is not allowed.

-T-boning (hitting your bike against the side of another bike) is not allowed.

-Everything else is NOT allowed: Mallet to player, player to bike, mallet to bike, etc.
-Throwing mallets is never allowed
-Trash talking is allowed.

Borrowed from Boston Bike Polo (http://bostonbikepolo.org/rules.html)