Catastrophe!

During this years' Millpocalypse the more sober of the attendees might remember the Freddy Merckx Hardman Trophy got broken. The news of this terrible occurrence was greeted by a global outpouring of grief.On the plus side it meant Lane didn't take the trophy to Oz which would have meant a long trip back to return it next year. The unwritten Millpocalypse rules state that each Champion must return the trophy in time for it to be awarded the next year, failure to do so will result in a crack squad of Westcoast Messenger drunkards being dispatched to give you a slapping and take it off you. Anyway it's time to re-group and re-build so a new trophy will have to be made by next year, one with less than 26 spaces for winners ( there's no way we can keep this up till we're in our fifties ) and one that isn't just a horse riding trophy with a bell bolted to it. If anyone has any ideas post them in the comments, the bell has to be incorporated but that's the only rule.
PREPARE FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS TO BE IGNORED UNLESS YOU'RE OFFERING TO ACTUALLY MAKE THE THING.

Time to give a little love back.

Despite trying to keep our event underground we seem to be getting a bit of a name for ourselves. Although we welcome any publicity, if word gets around too much it'll ruin the guerilla nature of Millportpoloco. The reason it's been such a success is we don't attract the sort of people who are going to complain if the events start late ( or on a different day ) or if their tent gets a little singed in the crossfire. This year Millpocalypse Now was free entry for fuck sake, that's how much we do it for the kids. Actually now would be a good time to thank our sponsors House of Pistard and Bike Booty without whom there probably wouldn't have been any prizes this year.
Fortunately all the coverage we're getting is on sites that are underground themselves...the moment the mainstream catches on it's time to pack our shit up and move to a new island.
Anyway the point is, Thank You to all the sites below for mentioning us:
MOVING TARGET
CYCLETRACK
46-18
BIKEBUS
FYXOMATOSIS
SMEEAR
ALLEYCAT.HU
ALLEYCATRACING
THE SLOG

And thanks to everyone who came this year, tell your friends...but not too many of them.

The Millportpoloco organising(?) committee.


This image had to be photoshopped because like most successful creative partnerships they can't stand being in the same room as each other.

LANE DELL - MILLPOCALYPSE CHAMPION 2007

Another year another champion. This year Lane Dell from Melburn AUS joined Chris (DUB) and Brian (GLA) in the hallowed position of Millportpoloco Champion, he not only won the Time Trial ( which is what Millpocalypse is all about* ) but he also won the Urban Keirin. Undisputed is the word. He also put in the second fastest time round the island 29m 05s, just behind Brian's 2006 record of 28m 50s. A slightly controversial record considering it was done after a year of sobriety which is just not in keeping with the true spirit of Millportpoloco.






On the subject of controversy a brand new event was introduced this year: SKIDTLES. Basically you approach ten cans set up like skittles lock up your rear wheel at a line about 20ft away then skid into the skittles taking out as many as possible. Sounds a lot easier than it is especially when none of the competitors had ever tried it before. Movie won this with a slightly suspect technique: as you can see above he chose a full body slide which kind of defeats the 'bike handling skills' part of the contest. But we'll let him off as the total lack of concern for personal safety fully embodied the Millpocalypse ethos and anyone that knows Movie knows it's not from lack of skills. So in honour of this, his technique will be called a 'movie' from now on. Get practicing for next year when we will set the skittles on FIRE!

* it's actually about getting really drunk and not getting burnt or drowned.

PHOTIES!

It really does look like Selim was the only person to bother documenting Millpocalypse Now. His Flickr site is HERE and it's worth looking through his other sets cos there's lots of good photos of ME!
Cheers Selim. This year was nearly a case of "If a courier falls over in a forest and no one is around to hear it, did it really happen?"...or something like that.