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.