[Closed] This morning my bike and I were denied access to...

That's outrageous, next they will be stopping you from taking it into virtually empty restaurants, museums, swimming pools and pubs 🙄

wot did they want you to do leave it outside the building for it to get stolen 🙄 they've just no idea how much we love our bikes. 😉

I've been known to receive objections from me bringing mine into peoples kitchens. The selfish inconsiderate gits

Then someone pointed out this

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and I sort of understood.

Anyway... are you sure they weren't just refusing you entry because you're a scouser? 😉

I understand objections if I were riding it round inside, but it was being pushed.

but it was being pushed.

Next time just claim it's your novelty Zimmer-frame, this will cause the jobs worth's head to explode as they've been told not to let bikes in, but they've also been told to be nice to the disabled 🙄

maybe if you'd promised to float about 2cm off the ground like all those people in Binners' second picture they'd have been ok about it.

I hope you told them you were a Tory MP and called them scum.

What possible harm could come of a man pushing his bike through a sparsely populated shopping centre...

It might be the catalyst to people waking up and realising TV, retail therapy and cars are all bum, leading to the collapse of the consumer led oil economy and unleashing an army of fit and healthy free thinkers.

Next time think of the consequences... 🙄

I understand objections if I were [s]riding[/s][u]pushing[/u] it round inside, but it was being [s]pushed[/s][u]carried[/u].

There. That's where you went wrong. Still, you'll know for next time.

Pleasure!

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Pook - Member
maybe if you'd promised to float about 2cm off the ground like all those people in Binners' second picture

the architect had everyone on skateboards

Take the front wheel off.

"Oh no - you must be mistaken; this isn't a bike - it's *parts* of a bike!"

You should have said you'd just bought it from the Halfords in the shopping centre.

Imagine how I felt when my wife and I discovered that you're not allowed to take bikes onto Brighton pier (no - not even just pushing them, which we were already doing)

Needless to say, Fish & Chips were purchased elsewhere.

you can't order from a macdonalds drive thru whilst sitting astride a bike either, even if there is no one behind you in the queue, they refused to sell me a milkshake but i was welcome to walk into the restaurant, i informed the manager (who just happened to be there behind the poor guy serving) where he could stick his shake, that was 11 years ago and i've never darkened their door step since

Were you really refused access because you had a bicycle with you...
Or did you forget to mention that you were in the buff in your OP, and the presence of a bike was really just incidental?

rocketdog - You're cutting your nose off to spite your face. You won't have tried the Mozzerella dippers then? You don't know what you're missing

Binners, the op appears to have been a success. If that's what a diet of Greggs does I'll stay away.

I was refused entry to the bedroom with the bike this morning..... apparently waking the wife at 6am to show her your new cranks just isn't cricket. 😀

I was once told I couldn't lock my bike to the table outside the pub 'for security reasons'

binners - Member

rocketdog - You're cutting your nose off to spite your face. You won't have tried the Mozzerella dippers then? You don't know what you're missing

I'd rather eat my own arm

Rocketdog, I used to take the kiddyback tandem with a babyseat through the drive through on Sundays evening rides. Made the kids day.

I take my bike into shops, but only very quiet restaurants. Had one issue recently,and I just refused to take it out on the grounds that it took up far less room than the Phil and ted pushchair behind me, and it was far too expensive to lock anywhere. The owner huffed a little, but I finished my ice cream before leaving.

I was once denied access to Bury shopping mall (near that Binners)

This is when I was already right inside the hall

Cue repetition of

them - you can't come in here
me - I'm already here

Wasn't allowed to prop my bike up at the back of a conference room - "...s'elf and saftey risk, sir..." 🙄 I'd had it checked for rabies and psychotic tendancies too.

Why would you think it ok to take a vehicle into shops ?

Why would you think it ok to take a vehicle into shops ?

A bikes not a vehicle, it's a piece of sporting equipment, just like a tennis racket, trainers or a crossbow, next you'll b saying we can't walk around shopping centres carrying those either.... 🙄

It's [I]"elves 'n' safe tea[/I] gone maaad I tells you!!!

Same reason as taking a vehicle commonly used for the perambulation of small infants?

A bikes not a vehicle,

A vehicle (from Latin: vehiculum[1]) is a mobile machine that transports passengers or cargo. Most often, vehicles are manufactured, such as bicycles, cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, trains, ships, boats and aircraft.

From, that there Encyclopaedia Wikitannica

Used to take great sport in getting the security guard in the local shopping centre to chase me & my mates around on our bmx's (back in stupid teenage times) - he'd be yelling off the balcony, ghetting a right puff up chasing us out.

Then I started dating this girl, turned up to a family do, turns out it was her grandad. I don't think he recognised me, neither of us ever mentioned it, and I stopped doing it. Been married to her 18 years now.

Hmm, the moral of this story? Bikes in shopping centres could end in embarrassment, joint mortgages and two children. Think before you do it.

rOcKeTdOg - Member

you can't order from a macdonalds drive thru whilst sitting astride a bike either

They will, however, serve you if you're being pushed through in a shopping trolley, or for that matter if there's 4 of you pretending to be a car (complete with sound effects)

We've just come back from a weeks cycle tour of Belgium where the bike is completely catered for as is the cyclist.

Britain needs to buck it's ideas up and realise there are more cyclists than ever.

Amazingly a coach load of British people where walking through a park in Ghent, as usual they spilled across the path, a Belgium lady was coming through on her bike ringing her bell, in the end the Brits forced her to dismount, to which a few Brits commented, how she shouldn't have tried to cycle through/past them. The guide should have pointed out that in Belgium you make way for a cyclist and pay them respect. attitudes need to change.

I think the OP has every right to take his bike into a shopping centre.

My bike and I were thrown out of the local sauna today.

I missed the sign..

NO SPDs ,at least I think that's what it said.

Taking the thing semi-seriously for a second, perhaps people are confusing the requirement to not ride a bicycle in indoor / shared public spaces, with a total exclusion of their prescence in those areas...

I mean why can one not be safely pushed in a shopping cntre or post office?

A bicycles tyres will be no more dirty than the soles of your shoes or the wheels of a pushchair and we're not asked to leave those items at the door are we? Pushing it along you will not be likely to exceed walking pace and hence pose no greater risk to other shoppers than someone with a pushchair or trolley, arguably less as your wheeled item has brakes fitted.

I don't really see the sensible objection TBH...

Security guard wouldn't let me bring push my bike into Decathlon to buy a bike lock despite the fact they will let kids take bikes for test rides around the store.

A horse would be a bad mode of transport to take though a shopping centre and definitely needs tethering outside.

Security guard wouldn't let me bring push my bike into Decathlon

Bit different when they sell them I suppose. "Oh, this? I brought it in with me, honest."

You obvioulsy missed the sign......

Only [u]bikes[/u][s]food[/s] purchased here [u]allowed[/u][s]can be eaten[/s] in store

Durrr!

you can't order from a macdonalds drive thru whilst sitting astride a bike either,

Security guard wouldn't let me bring push my bike into Decathlon

Tell them you're taking it to the workshop, then don't

Fight the power 🙂

[i]you can't order from a macdonalds drive thru whilst sitting astride a bike either[/i]

I had the same, they spouted health and safety at me. The walk in was shut, it was 10pm at night and we had to resort to a dirty kebab 🙁

And to top it off, a few months later a couple of friends posted to Facebook that they had just being served at the same drive thru, riding their horses 😆

I nipped into Waitrose with my Brompton earlier to get some full fat milk for the Udderlets' breakfast tomorrow. If I'd been able to buy fresh artisinal tapenade at the same time, I would have been tempted to shout 'House!' in my best middle class Surrey accent. 😳

I nipped into Waitrose with my Brompton

supermarkets might be a missing whole categories of potential customers - throw in a bit of energy saving and ASDA could have a lights out / no lights fitted early morning stock clearance event

Transport & planning authorities are gering better in consulting with cyclists and other so-called vulnerable user groups in provision for routes, access, and things like supermarkets being planning. Find out who they are and get involved!

I found myself surrounded by security and asked not to stand near the edge of a banister in a Southampton shopping centre.

No bike.
Just standing
Leaning against a railing
Looking down at the new shopping centre

I have no idea what they thought I would do, but they were so pig stupid that they could not tell me why I would not stand in a pedestrian area.

So I stepped back a metre and waited for them to leave. They stayed and watched me stand.

Odd bunch of paranoid retards.

Did you look suicidal? I normally do when I'm taken out to the Trafford Centre for the day.

Just take a CTC bag with you, slip it over the top and it becomes hand luggage. Got me into many hotels and even the Piccadilly Line.
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Ha... Not suicidal. Just confused. It's not like we were teenagers up to no good. Two grown men standing in a shopping centre.

Ctc bag... Did you have to negotiate?

I one got a big dummy, the long surly cargo bike on a train, not even in the bike storage area. I hid it behind bins on the platform and suddenly ran on with it before anyone had a chance to stop me.

you can't order from a macdonalds drive thru whilst sitting astride a bike either, even if there is no one behind you in the queue, they refused to sell me a milkshake but i was welcome to walk into the restaurant, i informed the manager (who just happened to be there behind the poor guy serving) where he could stick his shake, that was 11 years ago and i've never darkened their door step since

We have Mark Thomas to thank for that one. He dedicated a whole episode of his Comedy Product programme to taking the p!ss out of McDonalds. Used the drive thru with a clown Car, tank etc. Someone will be along in a minute with the youtube link...