"Smelly" cyclists kicked out of pub

[jimboalee]

It wasn't the smell. It was because there were THIRTEEN of them.


Seriously though. Thirteen mature cyclists and not one of them has the experience to know the correct stuff for that situation.

It's called Chanel Allure Sport.

When in the group on the Solihull CC Sunday ride, its like walking through Selfridges perfumery.

 

[Dan B]

Part of the problem is most likely due to the general prosperity of the country - almost everyone owns a car, and they are considered by many to be status symbols.

But again, that's just perception. My nice bike is worth more than my wife's car - in fact I paid more for my nice skates than some of my friends paid for cars.

 

[661-Pete]

it looks like they are noted as being rude and unfriendly

There appear to be plenty of pub review sites on the Web, besides the above, where you can leave comments. If you google the name and location of the pub these sites will come up. Why not - seriously now - leave 'comments'?

To be honest, it's not in most people's interest, including cyclists, to get an 'unfriendly' pub closed. Far better to persuade them to change their 'attitude'. I recall, there used to be a most unwelcoming establishment at Appletreewick in the Yorkshire Dales (they didn't like walkers). But this was 40 years ago, probably the regime has changed since then. Does anyone know the place (forgotten its name, it served Theakstons)?

 

[Dave Davenport]

It sounds to me like the pub wanted them out of the way because they weren't going to spend much money and were taking up 13 seats coming up to lunch time. That and the best excuse the plonker (who wouldn't seem to have much of a future in the hospitality industry) could come up with to tell them to leave was that they smelt bad.

I ride past there quite often but have never stopped, not looking like I will be any time soon either. Oh and by the way there are a couple of great tea & cake stops close by at the lavender farm and dandy's ford fishing lake.

 

[Hover Fly]

I think we should have a CC excursion to this pub, not on bikes but in smart clothes, say on the Sunday before a bank holiday, arrive early for dinner, just on 12, so we have eaten before the bulk of the customers have arrived.







Then, as the pub gets busy, have a farting competition.

 

[Headgardener]

it looks like they are noted as being rude and unfriendly

Last comment of the first find said they thought the beer smelt funny so perhaps it was that and not the cyclists as thirteen pints of smelly beer would be quite strong I would think.

 

[palinurus]

Bastards.

No doubt they were in the middle of the pub, all over the carpet, and drinking really slowly.

 

[downfader]

Crikey.. I switch the puter on and realised I have something like 60-70 emails... just waded through this.

One of the points I made on the site was that there are a load of really good pubs recommended by both the CTC and its members. This appear not to be one of them.

 

[downfader]

Update on the BBC site where the Publican gets his voice heard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11448473 (Thanks to Simon M who found the link)

And it should be noted that the temperature in that area had been quoted on the Echo website as being 16 degrees C. Thats hardly "warm outside" Perhaps if your heart has well and truly frozen over

 

[661-Pete]

What's more tolerable here - the smell of sweat, or the smell of vomit?

Of course there's a difference; the vomit usually 'happens' outside the pub, so it's not the publican's problem innit!

Anyone know where one can get vomit-flavour stink bombs?

 

[downfader]

What's more tolerable here - the smell of sweat, or the smell of vomit?

Of course there's a difference; the vomit usually 'happens' outside the pub, so it's not the publican's problem innit!

Anyone know where one can get vomit-flavour stink bombs?

You want to taste vomit?

 

[PpPete]

IIRC this is on some of John Ward's Audax routes from Lymington.
We need an "info" control right in front .... just so they can see how many customers they are losing.

 

[Chutzpah]

Pausing for a moment to try and put oneself in the pub owner's frame of mind....

Cyclists aren't good business for pubs. They only have a few drinks after all (not much fun cycling when you're p***ed) and come in mainly for the food. Maybe one or two pints at the most, and they're off. Food is less profit for the pub, where they really make money is on the booze. Whom they really want to attract are the juvenile binge-drinkers, the ones who pour drink after drink after drink into themselves, and moreover it's high-profit lager and bacardi and the like...

Cynical, moi?

Sorry, but it's the other way around, pubs make much more profit on food and very little on booze (apart from shorts), they also make a larger profit on 'soft drinks' than beer. So not a very good business plan, to chuck out sober paying customers.

+1 that it's the other way round. Food can easily have a 60% markup. Soft drinks will make your eyes water. When I was a manager of leisure facilities a couple of years ago the cost of the syrup for a coke was 10p a pint. The rest of the stuff you add to make it a drink is just fizzy water. Next time you are charged £2.50 for a pint of coke at a bar just consider that.....

The cost of alcohol to a pub can be very much at the mercy of the brewery. Hence why post-smoking ban so many pubs clamoured to get a microwave and start dishing out ready meals that they try to pass as "quality food".

 

[661-Pete]

+1 that it's the other way round. Food can easily have a 60% markup. Soft drinks will make your eyes water.

All right, I should have said, food at the 'better' sort of 'family' pubs, the sort where 'home cooked' really does mean 'home cooked', where prices are competitive, where portions are a decent size (a factor of much interest to hungry cyclists!) ... that's the sort of pub where the profit margin is going to be small. There are still that sort of pub around, though they're getting sparser!

But I agree, if all the pub does is buy up ready-made foil-wrapped stuff in bulk, and stick it in the microwave - why yes they can charge anything they like. And I also agree with you about the extortionate soft drinks - I'm hardly likely not to, being a near-teetotaller. Should be a law against that sort of rip-off....

 

[downfader]

+1 that it's the other way round. Food can easily have a 60% markup. Soft drinks will make your eyes water. When I was a manager of leisure facilities a couple of years ago the cost of the syrup for a coke was 10p a pint. The rest of the stuff you add to make it a drink is just fizzy water. Next time you are charged £2.50 for a pint of coke at a bar just consider that.....

The cost of alcohol to a pub can be very much at the mercy of the brewery. Hence why post-smoking ban so many pubs clamoured to get a microwave and start dishing out ready meals that they try to pass as "quality food".

From my years working in catering iirc last year the dept was charged £7 for a 3L case of coke syrup. Its a 10:1 dullution on the machine. We were charging £1 for a pint of coke from the dispenser. Its good profit even after staff and 'leccy bills.