Twas reading the paper at the weekend and hadn’t realised that Hadleigh Farm is Sally Army property (and apols for being 7 years late with this).

I’m not going but I presume some might get grumpy about the whole temperance thing and no beer being available?

I can survive a couple of hours without beer! 😉

This is something that is really starting to grate about mountain biking, drinking. more and more it seems riding is an excuse to go to the pub rather than go for a ride.

Know one large Welsh gent that will be ignoring this 😯 (not me am neither Welsh or have tickets 👿 )

Given that the army made my daughter pour away her fruit fanta before entering the Box Hill ticketed area for the road race, I think beer might be pushing it 🙂

Pleased I didn’t get a ticket now. Not so much no beer, but being treated like a child and who the hell are the Sally army to say what I can or can’t drink. Like to see them try that down at the beach volleyball !

Just do what Scottish footie fans did when they banned booze in grounds and inject oranges with vodka .Get drunk and your 5 a day in one go

Jesus does everyone here drink a lot! Mtb is a sport FFS!

I paid £4 for a 250ml plastic bottle of Heineken on the Mall for the men’s road race.

Wish I hadn’t.

Olympic rip-off.

Loads of roaming vendors selling beer inside the Olympic park!

You paid for Heineken?

mrmo…… And what is wrong with going to pub after a ride to chat with your mates, discuss the ride and have a laugh?

Best you not ride with the Tunnel Hill Trolls then!!

If I drank as often as I ride bikes I’d be even more over weight than I am now.

mrmo…… And what is wrong with going to pub after a ride to chat with your mates, discuss the ride and have a laugh?

Nothing, but is the point the ride, or the drink. I get the impression from a lot of people i meet the point is the drinking not the riding. In the same way you find plenty of riders at trail centres for whom the purpose is to be seen not to actually ride.

Which neatly fits into the idea that ones days skills course can make you a riding god, that you can buy skill, that more travel or a change of bike will really make a difference, that speed downhill is good, that driving cars fast on the public road is acceptable. etc etc.

I get the impression that there are a lot of people with limited understanding that most things are acceptable in the right place, someone has decided that you can’t drink at the MTB olympics site, oh well such is life. a few hours of not drinking isn’t going to kill you. I would hope that if i told a smoker i don’t want them smoking near me they would accept that on my ground that is my right, but i am not going to go to a smokers house and tell them not to smoke.

That seems to be the norm for a lot of hobbies and ‘sports’. Just like a pizza parlour is a front for the marffia, a sports club can be a front for The Campaign For Real Ale or something.
Plus there’s a lot of bravado attached to alcohol, some people need to be seen to be able to drink, and its a lowest common denominator activity that many people are happy to do.

you can get off your head without drinking :wink:, always best to be discrete though and way from others coz of the smell.

mrmo….

🙂

Drinking beer is one of my hobbies. As is riding bikes, playing guitar and eating nice food. I also like chatting to friends about all of the above.
A beer (other beverages are available) at an event is a fine way to combine one of my hobbies with another. If there’s an over-emphasis on alcohol in the magazine, that’s probably my fault too. 🙂

mrmo i think you are getting a bit paranoid there if people want to drink after a ride let them

i like going for a weekend away with my biking mates curry and a few beers in dolgellau or a night out in weatherspoons when staying in the hobo backpackers in tredeagar, absolutely wankered trying to get into the casino in chamonix all brilliant trips with mates but the booze was just a bonus we go for the biking!!!
(and these days 2 pints and im done!)

Nothing, but is the point the ride, or the drink.

Frightfully sorry old chap. I wasn’t aware there had to be a ‘point’. We do a lot of riding, when we’ve ridden for a few hours we like to go for a pint or 2. Its a balance, innit?

But as we’re not doing the 2 simultaneously, then technically it doesn’t even qualify as multi-tasking. Which is probably just as well. 😀

Pleased I didn’t get a ticket now. Not so much no beer, but being treated like a child and who the hell are the Sally army to say what I can or can’t drink.

Seriously? How pathetic.

I find it pretty shocking that folk are up in arms about this, no wonder we have such a problem with binge drinking!

Yes, but what about the fanta (above)? Won’t someone think of the children?

but is the point the ride, or the drink.

If you’re riding in the Olympics, I’d be disappointed if you’re drunk.
But I’m only watching, and watching sport goes well with beer so I’ll have a pint if its available. If not, no worries.

Having been to a good few cyclocross races in Belgium, I can heartily recommend having a beer or three and watching fit, sober, fast guys and girls racing flat out for your entertainment (and their own sporting glory).

You need a beer belly

or maybe a wine rack

druidh – Member

If I drank as often as I ride bikes I’d be even more over weight than I am now.

if i rode my bike as often as i drink beer i’d be a lot fitter than i am now.

Heineken you say . . ?

NOT WORK SAFE or CHILD SAFE or PEOPLE WHO DON’T LIKE THE F’BOMB

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‘To drink or not to drink’…..I’m not bothered as I hardly ever drink.

I guess its their land, their rules. 🙂

No beer at Olympic mountain bike races

The Salvation Army only agreed to host the Olympic mountain bike racing at Hadleigh Farm on the condition that no alcohol would be served.

They are afterall a Christian church, so it makes sense not to serve alcohol on the land.

They are afterall a Christian church, so it makes sense not to serve alcohol on the land.

Since when did Christians not drink?

Turning water into wine must have been a fairly pointless excercise….

Edit – and what about communion wine?

Edric64 – I find that very hard to believe. I have lived in Scotland for 17 years and I have never once seen a Scot eat a piece of fruit. They give it away at my work as a health exercise, me and the Spanish lady take it all home.

You would need some kind of class on how to peel an orange, for starters, and where to find them in the supermarket.

If I was spectating I’d probably partake of a biere though I usually get all shocked of Tunbridge Wells at the price venues charge.

On the vague subject of athletes having a drink, Mrs A and I have commented on the way the swimmers have nonchalantly sauntered out to the pool side before a race. I said it would be funny if one of them was having a fag and flicked the butt in to the pool as they ambled to their block.

Seriously? How pathetic.

Njee20
I take it you like being treated like a 5 year old and being told what to do by religous organisations ? Now that is pathetic. What has enjoying an outdoor event in the sunshine, with a beer or two ( if you choose ) got anything to do with binge drinking ( whatever that is ) ?

My post didnt complete edit, broadband issues…

My nan worked with the SA for many many years and nearly all of them, some of which I met seemed against alcohol….. so may be its in their policies not to serve or promote alcohol….

Anti social behaviour, abuse etc.

I for one support the no alcohol at the mtb event after being at a sporting event early in the year and having utter idiots almost ruin it for us.

I’m not tarnishing everyone with the same brush and yes I do have the odd ale! 😉

They are afterall a Christian church, so it makes sense not to serve alcohol on the land.

serve booze every sunday, do anything to drag in the crowds eh? the breads generally pish tho

Since when did Christians not drink?

Turning water into wine must have been a fairly pointless excercise….I think that event may have been at a jewish venue rather than salvation army

Allegedly

I take it you like being treated like a 5 year old and being told what to do by religous organisations ?

I’m happy to conform to the rules set out by the event organiser, if that extends to the non-sale of alcohol that’s fine (I wouldn’t be buying any anyway). I just think it’s a bit sad that you’d rather not go to an event than go, but be told you can’t have alcohol. That suggests to me that you have a problem.

Or you’re just bitter because you don’t have tickets!

Their main objection is that alcohol may lead to having sex outside a “marriage” with people of the same gender, and god gets quite irate about that, apparently.

I’m not surprised at the no liquids rule at all, Beer is a bit strange but would go for a drink later, instead I have no Tickets so will watch it from home drinking what I want