Motorcycle Soccer Needs To Be A Thing Again
Motorcycles and soccer. What can go wrong?
Two days ago, the New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons in a remarkable come-from-behind, overtime victory in Super Bowl 51. In honor of America’s biggest sporting event, we bring you a different kind of football: Motorcycle Football. In this surprisingly high-quality footage from 1959, we get the basics of “Motorball” explained to us while witnessing some dramatic competition at the same time. Considering all the extreme sports that are around these days involving a motorcycle, quite frankly, we’re surprised this hasn’t been resurrected. Who wants to be the one to change that?
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Troy's been riding motorcycles and writing about them since 2006, getting his start at Rider Magazine. From there, he moved to Sport Rider Magazine before finally landing at Motorcycle.com in 2011. A lifelong gearhead who didn't fully immerse himself in motorcycles until his teenage years, Troy's interests have always been in technology, performance, and going fast. Naturally, racing was the perfect avenue to combine all three. Troy has been racing nearly as long as he's been riding and has competed at the AMA national level. He's also won multiple club races throughout the country, culminating in a Utah Sport Bike Association championship in 2011. He has been invited as a guest instructor for the Yamaha Champions Riding School, and when he's not out riding, he's either wrenching on bikes or watching MotoGP.
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We used to play a game we called 'Mountain Bike Polo' where you would use a croquet mallet to advance a soccer or volleyball while riding a mountain bike, and braking using only the front brake (if you were right handed the mallet would be in right hand -- front brake is on opposite side to a motorcycle, that is it's on the left on bicycle). A lot of people would go over the handlebars from braking too hard. Worst injury I ever got was a blast to the eye socket from a mallet backswing. Still have some bone chips around my eye socket to prove it. The game became noticeably more violent when some Canadians, most of them ex-hockey players, started playing with us. Great guys though. Ah, to be young and dumb again!
No, motorcycle soccer does not need to be a thing again . . . at least not until universal health care comes to the USA.