I’m staggered by some of the posts on this one!! Well binners and bob’s. Admittedly it’s one side of the argument but surely it’s conceivable you go on a ride with enough provisions for x miles and plan to stop to top up? All of my all day mountain bike or road bike rides rely on a mid ride stop. If the cyclists had brazenly walked in and demanded free water without buying anything and spouting some water provision law then fair enough but according to the article * they had bought a pint and crisps and were looking for water to be on their way. Totally reasonable IMO.

*road.cc does seem to report things in the daily mail shitstirring fashion to be fair.

So passing some one an empty bottle, they pass it you back and say NO,

You ring the Police is that on your scale,

It boils down to my question earlier, who’s fault was it he had no water, the land lord or the rider,
By virtue of all your self righteous “look after ME I’m number one” posts, if the rider would have gotten into difficulty, dehydrated, over heated, short of breath, shallow breathing bringing on a panic attack or heart attack the fault would lay with a 3rd party and not the person who left the house under equipped for a long ride.

Forget the support car and SKY team bus, or even the team hotel we are talking amateurs here not supported riders, you leave the house in the morning and you put your faith in a strangers faith,

You carry a defibrillator too?

I always wondered what went in some of those camelbacks.

And answer the question, what if the camelback runs out of water?

Bob,did you read the article? Someone actually filled the bottles (obviously not considering it an unreasonable request) but the manager emptied them and said no, then went on to verbally abuse them. Which is the reason for involving the cops.I’m still staggered you think asking for water is out of line.

I thought I heard a funny noise.

Do not feed the troll. The squogly is an obvious ****. Ignore him all please.

How about the linked article? It might help you to read it again, as it provides answers to all your questions.

I’m still trying to work out whether you are trolling, or just plain daft.

Take the 2nd one, you were moaning earlier about unpreparedness?

It’s when you get to 100+ it becomes a challenge. I can usually get to 80 even in summer without a top-up if I stop at a cafe half way for a coke.

These guys on the other hand were on a multi day tour……….

So again, how do you carry enough water for several day? I’ve never found anyone unwilling to serve a pint of tap water.

That could be dangerous, you sound stressed

This is for squogly, it’s a lifetime achievement award, well done

Thisisnotaspoon, so your refused beverage and you become a casualty, same question who’s fault is it? Yours for not carrying enough or the landlords for saying NO twice?

A racer, how many times have you pulled a bowser behind you,

Bizarre series of posts 😯

My read of it was that the police were called because of the verbally abusive (threatening) behaviour towards a female rider…

Regarding “asking” for bottles to be filled, I’d assume that would be plain good manners. I’d be pretty p!ssed off if someone just walked in and started filling up water bottles without the decency to ask first!

And as for rider preparedness, I’ve never done a mtb or road enduro / sportive without bottle filling points. It’s just not feasible to carry your own (and camelbaks are pretty uncomfortable to wear on a stretched road bike type riding position)

I’m putting money on GW, but that’s just an inspired guess.

Squoglybob is either a troll or we’re witnessing someone in the midst of some kind of breakdown.

I’ll turn the question around, legality aside, would anyone here refuse to give someone water if they asked?

squoglynobblybob, what’s funny is that I asked you in a polite manor what you would suggest.. your response speaks volumes 😆

The water table is never that far down in the UK. You should be towing a drilling rig

So you don’t think that asking the staff of a busy pub to fill your water bottles for you, because you can’t be arsed walking to the big and turning a tap on, displays a monsterous sense of entitlement? Seriously?

Maybe they could give your bike a quick clean, then deliver your freshly filled bottles back to you on a velvet cushion so you could be on your way?

I agree. I gave another alternative to troll.

binners – apparently the staff working in this busy pub had sufficient spare time to spend emptying already filled bottles, so maybe they weren’t as busy as you think.

So long as my butler remembers to bring me the right glasses it is. He gets a right ticking off if he forgets, let me tell you.