Cycling to the Etihad

[Blu3m00n91]

Just jib the tram it’s easy……Cycling? Grow up

 

[jimharri]

They coped without changes of clothes in the days of Maine Road.
Left your bike in a backyard off Horton Road for a few pence.

Cup of Bovril and a Wagon Wheel for sustenance. Kenneth Wolstenholme on commentary. Jumpers for goalposts. Marvellous, wasn’t it, hmm?

 

[Lastminutewinner]

I too wasnt allowed to get in with my rucksack after cycling to the match yesterday as I have been doing since we moved to the Etihad.I t was deemed ‘potentially aggresive’ by the steward whatever that means.I stomped back to my bike and just left it as well hidden with my bike as I could.I was a bit miffed as ive always taken it in in the past and its a smallish rucksack anyway.I wasnt that bothered about getting it nicked as it only had my waterproof pants and jacket in and then i remebered in the second half that i’d put my pretty expensive bike computer in the rucksack too.fortunately it was there after the game

 

[denislawsbackheel]

“Bikes minded. 20p”

20 p?
Four shillings - no chance!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Hi all,

I am sure I am not a lone eco nut in wanting to cycle to the stadium, something I've done now for a few years.

I always take a change of clothes, in a rucksack, and get changed inside the ground.

Yesterday, i was refused entry with my bag - now that the club have instigated a £5 bag drop - but there is nowhere to get changed.

The 'supervisor' was devoid of logic and adopted a 'not my problem' stance.

I guess the question is, do we have anywhere else where a cyclist can get changed and store a bag without being 'in the asda toilets' and without paying £100+ a year in forced charity fees?

The club want to be seen to be improving green credentials, yet want to charge £5 and make you queue for 40mins pregame and longer postgame to take a change of clothes if you cycle in the Manchester weather

I didn’t know the club aren’t allowing bags in. What the fuck’s that about? People carry bags for many number of essential reasons.

 

[Lavinda Past]

“Bikes minded. 20p”

It was 2d when I were a nipper. Back yards full of rusty old bikes being argued over by old blokes after the match.

 

[BlueSkyBlue]

Just get changed outside the ground, no one will see you as we've got no fans :)

True and if i leave after 85 mins everyome will be gone

I didn’t know the club aren’t allowing bags in. What the fuck’s that about? People carry bags for many number of essential reasons.

Anything over A4 is appatently a no, anything under A4 is searched and tagged.

It seems they were enforcing this throughly yesterday.

 

[BlueSkyBlue]

I too wasnt allowed to get in with my rucksack after cycling to the match yesterday as I have been doing since we moved to the Etihad.I t was deemed ‘potentially aggresive’ by the steward whatever that means.I stomped back to my bike and just left it as well hidden with my bike as I could.I was a bit miffed as ive always taken it in in the past and its a smallish rucksack anyway.I wasnt that bothered about getting it nicked as it only had my waterproof pants and jacket in and then i remebered in the second half that i’d put my pretty expensive bike computer in the rucksack too.fortunately it was there after the game

Your experience mirrors mine almost exactly. I locked mine to my lick but wasnt expecting it to be there - also was wprried about the police being concerned.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Anything over A4 is appatently a no, anything under A4 is searched and tagged.

It seems they were enforcing this throughly yesterday.

Thanks for letting me know. I wouldn’t have known and if my Mother goes to a game with all the bloody tablets she carries with her she wouldn’t have got in haha

 

[Lavinda Past]

Cup of Bovril and a Wagon Wheel for sustenance. Kenneth Wolstenholme on commentary. Jumpers for goalposts. Marvellous, wasn’t it, hmm?

It was actually... I used to enjoy going to the match a lot more than now. Turn up, get in, buy bovril and wagon wheel, up the Kippax steps, perch onto the nearest barrier, watch the match, leave at full time, walk rather than bus to be able to afford chips and scrape on the way home.
It's too much farting about with fancy food and Hugh Ferris types nowadays.

;-)