Does anyone take their bike with them into Tesco?

[marshmella]

If you do then don't dawdle because one of the staff might try to mount your forks backwards.

That's disgusting, they should be arrested for that

 

[Buzzinonbikes]

This bloke doesn't http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereve...0-kuota-bike-while-owner-was-in-chorlton-shop

 

[clarion]

All very well having a light bike but no lock.

 

[JoeyB]

They shouldn't object in the new Tesco at Fareham.... the Council has kindly designated the entrance as a shared use cycle facility!!!!!

I live within half mile of that store!

 

[Moodyman]

No problem in my local Tesco megastore. Always leave bike by customer service/security desk. Ask nicely and smile - it works.

Aldi and Lidl are the best for taking your bike in.

 

[Maz]

No problem in my local Tesco megastore. Always leave bike by customer service/security desk. Ask nicely and smile - it works.

I did. It worked.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

I haven't taken my bike into a supermarket yet.There's a 24 hour Asda in Taunton; I'm seriously tempted to cycle over to Taunton and cycle round Asda in the early hours of the morning.

 

[Matthew_T]

The only shops I have actually taken my bike into would be LBS and Halfords. Cycle shops come with a certain expectation though. LBS are good because I can slot my bike in with the others and noone would be able to tell the difference (apart from the muck and paint scratches).

If I get up early enough tomorrow, I will head to the local 24hr store and give it a go. Doubt I will get any trouble if noone is in.

 

[RWright]

The only shops I have actually taken my bike into would be LBS and Halfords. Cycle shops come with a certain expectation though. LBS are good because I can slot my bike in with the others and noone would be able to tell the difference (apart from the muck and paint scratches).

If I get up early enough tomorrow, I will head to the local 24hr store and give it a go. Doubt I will get any trouble if noone is in.

You going to ride your bike around in the store? With your cam on?

I have never tried to take my bike inside a store around here. I just leave it in front of the windows and don't spend much time in the store. I don't know if a grocery store would let me take it in or not. I feel bad enough just walking in with SPD-SL cleets on.

 

[Matthew_T]

You going to ride your bike around in the store? With your cam on?

I wont have the cam on. They would probably think I am from the BBC or one of these 'pranksters'. A guy at the Olympic torch thing thought I worked from the BBC and had a live feed going into my backpack. It did make me laugh.

 

[RWright]

I wont have the cam on. They would probably think I am from the BBC or one of these 'pranksters'. A guy at the Olympic torch thing thought I worked from the BBC and had a live feed going into my backpack. It did make me laugh.

 

[ufkacbln]

I wont have the cam on. They would probably think I am from the BBC or one of these 'pranksters'. A guy at the Olympic torch thing thought I worked from the BBC and had a live feed going into my backpack. It did make me laugh.

We have a woman who regularly drives along the shared use cycle track in Fareham to avoid queuing in traffic.

Came face to face with her one day, and she asked WTF I was doing filming her. So I told her I was commissioned by Channel 4 and recording fr a future programme on bad drivers. That shut her up!

 

[Sara_H]

I tried to take my bike into my local tesco once as it was about to close (barely any customers in). I only wanted a bottle of milk and couldnt be bothered to lock it up. As others have said its no chunkier than a trollet so what can be the problem? Anyhow - the security guard was having none of it! I left empty handed.
Interestingly a few years before my Grandmother-in-law and her friends had been banned by the same shop from taking their wheeled shopping bags in - caused a bit of an outrage loally!!

On a similar note, I was stopped taking my bike into Decathlon (I'd forgotton my lock). I spoke to the manager who quoted the famous elf and safety laws. I aked him how it could be unsafe for me to push my bike round a vitually empty store when if I returned on saturday/sunday I would be taking my life in my hands avoiding the hundreds of kids zooming round on the display models. He didn't really have an answer for that.

 

[Maz]

I don't tend to take the bike in - our local supermarkets tend to have lots of cycle parking (well, it is Cambridge) but I do take the trolley in,

I've been to the Sainsbury's on the roundabout nr Coldham's Lane many a time (don't know if you know it). You can't complain there aren't enough Sheffield stands there!

 

[Mike Appleton]

Personally no, I have seen people wheeling their bike around though.