Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - How many pints should you drink and still ride home?

Obviously I have had a few, but I shall still ride home what is your personal limit? Mine is prob related as to how well I can walk. I can still run up stairs so I am ok.

no typos? somebody get that man (or woman) a pint!

An awful lot? Seriously, I'm more stable on a bike than my own feet. My friends regularly witness this and are still scratching their heads trying to figure it out.

all of them

i was just gonna say that


all of them

yeah, right!

i've had nights where all i can remember is the ride home. figure that one out.

reminds me of a funny story... A friend of mine was riding home from a party and a needed to empty all the beer out of her stomach, so she puked into a bush. A bike cop who saw here riding before she stopped rode up and said she was drunk and was giving to get a ticket for riding intoxicanted... He asked why she would ride so drunk? she replied "cus here not supposed to DRIVE when your WASTED!"

I died laughing when I heard that story, but keep in mind in a lot of place you can get a DUI on a bike, not to mention Public Intoxicantion tickets.

i've had nights where all i can remember is the ride home. figure that one out.
I have had nights where all I cant remember is the ride home. GOOD TIMES!!

Come to think of it, I remember waking up in my bed with my cycling shoes on, and my bike half laying across the bed. Weird, but its a lot better than waking up next to the girl you thought was hot 8 beers into the evening I suppose.

I lost count last night. I do know that I ride about 30% faster while under the influence.

Oh, and
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you got drunk, welded your seat post into the middle of the top tube, put your cranks kangaroo style, took off the chainring and the chain, turned the saddle backwards, and jumped off your bike with a bottle of wine in your hand while three lines chased you and your bike ran into a soccer goal and exploded?

damn, that must have been a good night.

SO been there

you got drunk, welded your seat post into the middle of the top tube, put your cranks kangaroo style, took off the chainring and the chain, turned the saddle backwards, and jumped off your bike with a bottle of wine in your hand while three lines chased you and your bike ran into a soccer goal and exploded?

damn, that must have been a good night.

awesome. just awesome.

you got drunk, welded your seat post into the middle of the top tube, put your cranks kangaroo style, took off the chainring and the chain, turned the saddle backwards, and jumped off your bike with a bottle of wine in your hand while three lines chased you and your bike ran into a soccer goal and exploded?

damn, that must have been a good night.

New sig!

You forgot the part where I filled the front (rear?) tire with gasoline.

This was a friend's artistic interpretation of my blasting through a chain-link fence at a high rate of speed on Nebraska Ave (ever watch cops? You've seen Nebraska Ave) in Tampa. Broke a clavicle and bled from my head a LOT.

to the point of not walking too well, then no more than three more pints...if you exceed this rule it proves to be a very long and tedious, if not impossible, task of actually mounting your steed.

oh yeah...if you're seeing doubel then your pretty screwed...i haven't any actual experience riding in that condition (well, my brother tells me otherwise but i don't remember or know what he's talking about) so i couldn't tell you if this is very possible...last bar ride we went one though, one girl was riding like she was seeing double, she fell once, he friends lughed very hard at her, she got back up and kept on going (these are roller derby girls) and she bounced off a telephone pole once (kinda bumped it with her side) then veered off the curb and the whole time her bars were in constant overcorrection of steering but she never fell down again...wtf...then she got off the bike and talked fine and walked perfectly straight...i was told she doesn't ride bikes often, i guess some people are just backwards, i ride better than i walk when liquored up.

You forgot the part where I filled the front (rear?) tire with gasoline.

This was a friend's artistic interpretation of my blasting through a chain-link fence at a high rate of speed on Nebraska Ave (ever watch cops? You've seen Nebraska Ave) in Tampa. Broke a clavicle and bled from my head a LOT.

I love how your frame is a rhombus...or something.

Oh, and
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so that's what happens when you ride radial in the rear.. bingo.

to the point of not walking too well, then no more than three more pints...if you exceed this rule it proves to be a very long and tedious, if not impossible, task of actually mounting your steed.

mounting the steed is the hardest part. after that it's smooth sailing.

wait a minute, are we talking about real 20oz pints or the silly american 16oz pints?

Hold on ... a pint is 16 oz. and there are 432.8 pints in a hogshead.

I've gone down from having too much. It hurt soooo bad the next morning.

drunk is actually my favorite way to ride. at least once every other week i go get on the bike late at night to go ride around the block for a bit before heading to bed, and it turns into a 20+ mile ride bombing the streets of manhattan. few things more peaceful than doing 25 mph thru the financial district at 5am. i find the drunker you are, the less you feel the burn, and the faster you ride. i now advocate drunk exercise to all my friends. ironically, the only time i've ever been hurt on the bike while drunk was when i was walking it. my friends made me promise not to ride because i was too drunk...i showed them!

drunkness makes murder hill less murderous.

"How many pints should you drink and still ride home?"

as many as it takes.

so that's what happens when you ride radial in the rear.. bingo.

And a dork disk to boot.

I'm happy you made it home last night Robb.

You were pretty drunk :D.

Albert Hoffman preferred something else on his rides.

It's fun

Hold on ... a pint is 16 oz. and there are 432.8 pints in a hogshead.

In that case, a hogshead.

When I was young and foolish I did strange things. As I biked home once I was so gone on booze everything I saw was doubled. No lights and so dark I could not see the sides of the road. I got home by riding what looked like two bikes down the two white lines down the middle of the road between Boulder and Golden. I still had enough wits to keep looking over my shoulder for cars. Fortunately there were none that late at night. Blood alcohol? I quess somewhere between 0.15 and 0.20. To get back to the original topic that would be some 8 to 12 pints for a 180 lb male.

If I can leave the place with the help of one friend or less and get my leg over the bike, I'm set. That's usually 8-15 pints, depending on the night, for a 140# male, and I usually stop remembering things after 8-ish. I'm better off riding than walking while I'm drunk. Once you get the bike rolling it wants to stay up, you just have to keep it rolling and hold on.

oddly enough, I'll pulled off some decent trackstands in a blithering stupor. perhaps it calms the nerves...

none you ****ing hipsters

so far the worst for me is waking up in the morning, my bike next to me on the kitchen chair, with a burrito in hand. oh, and not knowing how it all got there...

um...

so far the worst for me is waking up in the morning, my bike next to me on the kitchen chair, with a burrito in hand. oh, and not knowing how it all got there...

um...

See my prior post. Been there before. I'm not making this up, but when one of my friends was on a strict weight loss diet, he got drunk one night and woke up in bed with a box of McNuggets and a BigMac. I was in tears I was laughing so hard when he told me.

IF YOU CAN STAND YOU CAN RIDE!!!!

thats always been my motto, however i once dissproved this by stumbling out to my bike and in one fluid motion as i proceded to throw my leg over the bike i flopped over onto the ground tangled up in the bike and promptly passed out. my buddy never lets me forget that one...

i've had nights where all i can remember is the ride home. figure that one out.


ive had a few where i remeber everyhting BUT the ride home. hehe

I ride home down a long residential street from my pub, close my eyes and start counting until I freak out and have to open them again. The highest I've gotten is 12-mississippis, and have yet to hit any rear view mirrors. I think the number of mississippis is directly proportional to the number of pints.

none you ****ing hipsters


I think you mean drunkards

I'm always fine. Wifey crashes into me and makes me fall down. Usually at 2:15 in front of 30 drunk-monkeys. Shameful.

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Some good druken stories there, just what I wanted. I will agree that there seems to be point when drunk that I can ride faster. my usual journy takes about 55 - 60 min but when drunk I have done it in about 42 min I think my recourd is.

My best /worst drunken riding eposode was when I was at uni and only lived about 2 miles away. I was riding home on my BMX one night about 3.00 am cranking towards a curb, went to hop up it but only flicked up my rear wheel up and forgot about lifting my frount wheel, shortly after this I noticed the ground was getting very close to my face. Then my love became so stong for the ground I tried to kiss it, but it bit me back. I got home phoned a mate in hysterics went to bed and woke up with blood on my pillow, then I remembered what happened. Went down stairs looked at the phone and saw the mouth peice was covered in blood from my chin where I had been talking on the phone. The worst bit was shaving, for weeks I had a clean shaven face but a bit scab on my chin with stubble sticking through. Chicks did not did this scar!

I never get to drink and bike near my home, so my hazard is getting lost on the biking after drinking part. Usually, that lengthens the ride a good amount (2 to 3 times longer than it needs to be, usually), so I'm actually feeling alright by the time I get back.

Obviously I have had a few, but I shall still ride home what is your personal limit? Mine is prob related as to how well I can walk. I can still run up stairs so I am ok.

Well, that depends on your size, gender, and amount of time drinking. (Women become intoxicated more quickly than men, even when body weights are the same. This is due in part to the fact that men's bodies have a greater percentage of water by volume.)

Through years of painstaking research, I've developed the following handy equation:

Theorem 1:
Max # of Pints = (# Hours Drinking) * ((Bike Size in cm) * 1/2 - k) * 4 / 3
Where k is 20 for men and 22 for women.

The proof is left to the reader as an exercise.

Corollary 1:
If you can evaluate the above equation in your head, it's okay to drink some more.

drunkcycling is almost the best part of riding a bike in the first place

Theorem 1:
Max # of Pints = (# Hours Drinking) * ((Bike Size in cm) * 1/2 - k) * 4 / 3
Where k is 20 for men and 22 for women.

I think there might be something wrong with this equation... or my math. I'm a guy and according to my public school education I can drink 65 pints in 5 hours since I ride a 60cm bike??

I'm a guy and according to my public school education I can drink 65 pints in 5 hours since I ride a 60cm bike??

sounds like a wager to me.

I think there might be something wrong with this equation... or my math. I'm a guy and according to my public school education I can drink 65 pints in 5 hours since I ride a 60cm bike??

YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH MATHEMATICS.

"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
-Robert A. Heinlein

If you're seeing double, just carry an eye patch in your bag. Problem solved.