UPDATE !

It would appear this year that once again everyone except Selim was too drunk to remember to take any photos so we may never know how the weekend got from this:

To this...

Via this:

If anyone does have any good pics send them, or a link to : westcoastmess@yahoo.co.uk

PHOTOS:NIKKI+XANDER

C.C.C.C.C ?

Millport to host the 12th BI-ANNUAL CELTIC CYCLE COURIER CHALLENGE CUP next year?
It's just a rumour at the moment, but why else would Paul be wearing the Tee shirt? Could courierings' best kept secret be jumping into the mainsteam?

NO NEW POSTS TIL SEPT.

I'm on holiday. Photos and info on this year will go up when i get back.
UP YOURS!

THE RESULTS

10.5 MILE TIME TRIAL ( Record 28.50 set in 2006 )

1 LANE ( MEL ) 29.05
2 TOM ( GLA ) 29.31
3 MIKE MAKATRON ( MEL ) 29.55
4= BRIAN ( GLA ) 30.24
4= CAMERON ( GLA ) 30.24
6 NIALL ( GLA ) 31.04
7 DEREK ( EDN ) 33.37
8 NIKKI ( LON ) F 33.51
9 ALI ( LON/GLA )F 34.29
10 LAURA ( GLA ) F 37.10
11 LINDSAY ( GLA )F 37.43
12 ROY ( GLA ) 37.49 PUNCTURE
13 PED ( GLA ) 39.55 TOWED MOVIE FOR A WHILE
14 MOVIE ( GLA/SYD ) 42.43 ON A 16" WHEEL BMX WITH NO BRAKES AND A SLOW PUNCTURE
15=COOKIE ( MNT ) 1:20.18
=CHUCK ( MNT ) 1:20.18
=RITA ( BUD ) F 1:20.18
=JEN ( GLA ) F 1:20.18
=ANDREAS ( COP/SYD ) 1:20.18
DFL JAMES TAIT ( GLA ) 2:19.05 A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT CONSIDERING THE WEATHER

URBAN KEIRIN

BOYS
1 LANE ( MEL )
2 BRIAN S.A. ( SYD )
3 MAKA ( MEL )

GIRLS
1 JEN ( GLA )
2 NIKKI ( LON )
3 ALI ( LON/GLA )

SKID SKITTLES

1 MOVIE ( GLA/SYD ) 9
2=JAMES TAIT ( GLA ) 7
=ANDREAS ( COP/SYD )7

PIER JUMP

1 PAUL ( GLA ) JUST WAIT FOR THE PHOTOS

KARAOKE

1 TOM ( GLA ) VOICE OF AN ANGEL

TRACKSTAND DARTS

ABANDONED DUE TO EXCESSIVE DRUNKENESS

The Pre-event for Millpocalypse

Ross organised an impromptu Pre-Event during CMWCXV to help promote Millportpoloco 3.
Pikey from London won.

MILLPOCALYPSE THEN!

It's over, everybody survived, Niall didn't get hypothermia and everybody made it off the island on Sunday...sounds a bit tame by Millportpoloco standards, but we managed to have the Police called on us a grand total of 5 times making it the most illegal Millportpoloco yet. Fortunately there no arrests or tickets, not even for riding along a motorway, at night, with no lights, steaming drunk...but that's only because as they were writing out our tickets a murder in progress came over their radio and they had to boost ( lucky us, unlucky victim ).
This year we had couriers representing from Melburn, Sydney, Montreal, Copenhagen, Budapest, London and of course Glasgow ( Edinburgh what happened? you were missed ). We added new events including Skid Skittles, Pier jumping and KARAOKE! There was another good crash in Friday's Urban Keirin and despite a very wet Saturday everyone went home happy, in fact some people still haven't gone home because GLASGOW ROCKS!

Results will be posted tomorrow and photos will go up as soon as possible but I warn you, there's a lot of male nudity. All in all another successful year. Not bad for an event that was organised entirely on the train back from CMWC in Dublin.

Skatepark Photos

Has anyone got photos from the Friday nite skatepark session?
send them to westcoastmess@yahoo.co.uk

Registration

54below
1106 Argyle St
Glasgow, G3 8TD

Friday from 5pm. Brief break for Urban Keirin @ Park Circus then back to 54below till 3am.
Registration is free but you need to come to find out wtf is going on all weekend.
If you can't make it on Friday then meet @ Central Station at 9am Sat. morning.
If you can't make it there then meet on the pier at Millport at 12midday.
Time trial starts at 13:47 SHARP!

Dublin HO!

SOME NEWS

Millportpoloco news: This year will be FREE ENTRY and I think the prizes reflect that:

As everyone knows the real goal is to get to ring the bell on the Freddy Merckx Hardman trophy:

There is also a trophy for the Urban Keirin on Friday and don't forget the ONE POUND WHISKYS in the Tavern.

Right. The tandem is on the road and everyone is off to Dublin..see ya!
(If your coming the best thing to do is grab a Scotsman in Dublin and see if he can remember we're putting on this event.)

"THIS IS GLASGOW, WE'LL SET ABOUT YE"

As you'll all have heard Scotland is now on al-Qaeda's list, but don't let it bother you, cos we're not bothered. Here's what John Smeaton, one of the locals who took it upon himself to batter a suicide bomber, has to say about the threat:

WHAT THE FUCK HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH BIKES!?

For those of you who thought they were getting a bit old to still be on the circuit.

HANDSOME BUT SCARY

These photos have been nicked from HERE. Looks like they're about a year old and judging from the clothes, taken in June or July. It's a testament to the guy's photography skills that he's managed to make everyone look so normal. Note Quimby keeping it real with the cast.







Not much Millporpoloco news at the moment, the event that organises itself seems to be doing the same again this year. On the tandem front some sort of boat anchor seems like the best way to stop people flying off the end of the pier.

GLASGOW'S FATTEST COURIER TOO TIGHT TO PAY FOR OWN PETROL

This has nothing to do with Millportpoloco but it's worth mentioning that Hutch from Alliance Bicycle Couriers has started up a new business to help pay for all of Sheona's perms. You can find out all about BIKE BUS here.
Come to think of it, can we hire you for the Millpocalypse weekend ?

ACCOMMODATION

I suppose it's about time we started posting some useful information for this year.
If you're coming from far afield ( and by that I mean further than Dumbarton ) you'll need somewhere to stay.Last year we had Swiss, Irish and a melting pot of Londoners come to visit us along with several non-messengers, everyone will be made welcome... unless you come from Carluke .Friday night takes place in Glasgow so drop us a line here: westcoastmess@yahoo.co.uk and we'll sort you out with a couch or floor. Saturday is camping so a tent/hammock would be good or at least a sleeping bag so you can spoon in someone elses tent... alternatively you can stay up all night throwing stones at the moon with the locals ( I swear I hit it last year ), or book into the hotel. If you're one of the lucky one's who doesn't miss the last ferry on Sunday another couch in Glasgow awaits, then it's up to you and the couch owner how much longer you get to stay.
In unrelated tandem news apparently it's going to be red...if Bike Booty can grab a spare minute to paint it between fixing Art School student's Raleigh Shoppers.

CYBER DORKS

We've decided to hop on the Myspace bandwagon, I think if this guy is on there then it must be cool. The problem is we're lookin' pretty unpopular at the moment, so come and be our super cyber friends so you can receive bulletins filled with useless information. MYMILLPORTSPACE

MY, THAT'S A DANDY HORSE

After devoting minutes of brainpower trying to come up with a really cool name for the TANDEM we have finally decided on "Dandy Horse"... "what!?" I hear you cry, you don't think that's a cool sounding name? Well let me fill you in on the history:
In 1839 Kirkpatrick MacMillan a Scottish blacksmith added a treadle pedal system to the current ' Boneshaker ' velocipedes that were propelled by pushing along the ground with your feet, thus he created the daddy of the modern pedal bicycle. These were called Dandy Horses.
Kirkpatrick never filed a patent so other so-called 'inventors of the bicycle' dispute his title. What is on record in newspaper archives is that in 1842 he was fined for hitting a pedestrian while travelling at 8mph. So although there may be many claims to inventing the bicycle, there can be no dispute that the first person to get a ticket was a Scotsman... put that in your Dandy Horse and smoke it!

SUNDAY EQUALS FUNDAY

This being the third Millportpoloco we have by now realised just how difficult it is to get people moving on the Sunday morning. This is due to the ' Lord of the Flies ' mentality that takes over city-boy couriers the moment they get out into the wilderness, in 2005 this resulted in arson and probably the highest percentage of injuries at any courier event...ever. In 2006 the fragility of James Tait's mental state by Sunday threw up one of the weirdest alleycats this reporter has witnessed ( see photos ).
So this year we are going to keep it fun and not too physically taxing, that means sea jumping on a child's BMX off the pier and track stand pillow fights. Two great events and limited risk of drowning. BRING YOUR TRUNKS.

BROWN THUNDER

The track tandem is starting to take shape. You can follow it's progress in it's very own blog HERE it's a good way to keep the BIKE BOOTY guys on their toes.