When did cycling become so serious? When we were kids, bikes meant adventure, going as far as we could peddle with our mates for a laugh. These days it’s all about pelotons, triathlons, time trials, velodromes, and all the other ways that kill carefree cycling. Well, hopefully, the Birmingham Beer Bike can add a little fun back in.
Gather up to 12 of your closest friends and hop on this boozy bike tour of Birmingham. You’ll have an hour to peddle around the city streets with ‘as-much-as-you-can-drink beer’ – making this a cycle trip to remember, if you can remember it that is. It’s all the fun, laughter, and silliness of cycling that we’ve missed since we were little – just with more booze.
The Birmingham Beer Bike doesn’t come cheap at £420 for the 75-minute ride through the City Centre. Accommodating up to 6-12 per bike, the more the merrier will greatly reduce the split cost (it’s only £35 between 12 people). Time to call up those old uni pals you’ve not spoken to in a while hey?
The hour-long tour also comes with your very own designated sober driver, a Bluetooth speaker to play your music, and an optional “pretty waitress/handsome waiter” for £50. Other add-ons include two bottles of Champagne (£110), five bottles of Prosecco (£70), and crisps (£25). Picking you up on Sherlock Street, the route takes in such sights as Digbeth, Birmingham’s canals and beyond.
Ideal for stag or hen celebrations, Beer Bike has also catered for anything from “divorce parties to engagement parties, speed dating to 80th birthdays and everything in between over the years.” Starting in 2013, it also operates in London, Bristol, Liverpool, Newcastle and Edinburgh, as well as European cities like Prague, Bratislava and Vienna.
In recent years, these infamous party bikes have attracted attention for causing noise and traffic jams – which even led to a ban on beer bikes in Amsterdam in 2017. If you don’t mind attracting the ire of other road users, you can learn more about Birmingham Beer Bike by heading here.