[Closed] New one to get outraged about.... Cafe told to stop welcoming cyclists..

Awe, thats not very friendly. Thats a stop we use when we do the "Windsor Loop".

White middle-class is a minority group now?

it's not the café, it's the station that own the premises. We ? cyclists

Apparently.

If the station owners want fewer cyclists on the station premises, surely it's their job to stop cyclists coming in, rather than get the cafe to turn away large slices (yes I did) of its clientele.

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Storm in a teacup?

The landlord has no taste for a fight and is fudging the issue, hoping the café will catch all of the brownie stuff...

So why doesn't the landlord want cyclists to use the cafe?

I love the ironing that the principal sponsor of the Tour of Britain is now trying to piss off cyclists! 😆

Whilst it is not one of my cycling cafes, I'm a local, I can't really see how they can stop cyclists from using the cafe. There is no forbidding of wheeling bicycles down the arcade. And of course the cafe very kindly provide small locks for the endemic bike theft in Windsor. The chocolate cafe by the bridge has now gone, sadly. The Royal Farm cafe is a little pricey too. Maybe I should set up my own!

It will blow over.

I don't deny it's possible, but how do we actually know it's being asked to shut because of cyclists visiting?

It will blow over

will it - up until yesterday the lease had till the end of the month to run and the owners were avoiding renewing, supposedly over the cycling usage.

The issue may blow over but if the proprietors have been turfed out before then, it won't necessarily blow over for them, their business or the staff they employ.

I love the ironing that the principal sponsor of the Tour of Britain is now trying to piss off cyclists!

A case of wanting their cake and eating it?

That's a brilliant cafe, I've used it several times when riding out from South London to Windsor. Up through Windsor Great Park, into the town, cafe stop then out via Eton.

this calls for a critical mass of MAMILs on a Saturday morning.

The landlord must have someone lined up prepared to pay a higher rent, and is just looking for a reason to make life awkward for the cafe? I can't see any LL willing to turf out a successful business purely because of a few bikes stacked outside.

There will be more to it than a group of lycra clad cyclists leaving their bikes outside and drinking coffee.

What an arrogant stance to take.

Cancel your insurance policies with aviva and boycott the café if the tennants change.

We (the ordinary people) need to start making big corporations realise where their income comes from

Windsor............is that in France?

no, you're thinking of ventou(ch)