Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - drunken ridin'!

how many of you have put up with drunken stupid car drivers? night back from the pub and some arse ruins your ride with your buddies home? i just experienced someone trying to ride me off the road, and i'm quitepissed. what's the deal? maybe i've just not washed off my hate at the door, but i'm quite upset....

man I'm doing some mad drunken sitting right now!!!

understandably so, I'd be ****ing torqued if I ever had any sort of encounter with a drunk ****er in a car.

one great thing about riding at night is that there are fewer cars to share the road with

one horrible thing about riding at night is that the percentage of drunk drivers is higher

well poo, here I thought this would be a thread on the glories of drunken bicycle riding.

well poo, here I thought this would be a thread on the glories of drunken bicycle riding.
The glories or the gories?

A lot when I lived in Savannah, but I was probably as drunk as them, except on a bike.

I ride at 3 am and I know probably every 5th car has somone driving that has been drinking. I take side streets for sure.

I tried drunken riding and it's not all that fun or easy. Too many pi$$ stops for my liking and maintaining any kind of a line is ridiculous. I prefer early morning o-dark-thirty riding, though and only with lights and flashers. I have no desire to become a statistic. The thing about early morning riding is traffic is really light and most of the drunks are home by then!

Mark

damn im still drunkin and its 7 amplus another thing... i found out people dont like riding with me when i am and they are drunk i guess i always have to be in the front and on the left of everybody
question when i wake up:
did i type this right?

damn im still drunkin and its 7 amplus another thing... i found out people dont like riding with me when i am and they are drunk i guess i always have to be in the front and on the left of everybody
question when i wake up:
did i type this right?
No, you're slurring your fonts! ;)

Mark

This is why you shouldn't ride drunk:


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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.

I don't remember riding drunk very often but somehow I get home fine.

i ride drunk all the time and have never had something even close to an accident. maybe i've just been lucky but i've never felt unsafe getting on my bike.

Living in Phila (like most other metro cities, i'm sure), you tend to find that drunks take cabs or walk home (or ride themselves). I've never encountered any drunk drivers here, at least not obvious ones. I'd assume most of them stay in old city and hop right on I95 to the suburbs or 76 back to jersey...

I sideswiped a dumpster once. it slashed my front tire.

well poo, here I thought this would be a thread on the glories of drunken bicycle riding.

Thankfully, it has.

i know someone who busted out half her teeth riding drunk

dont do it!

While we're on the subject...

Does anybody know what the penalties for B.U.I. (biking under the influence) are? I've always heard rumors of people getting busted, but the penalties were always a mystery. I can't imaging they'd be the same as D.U.I.

they are the same as a dui

in fact it is a dui

Whatever you do, don't let TheRobbStory drink and ride.

<3s you robb.

they are the same as a dui

in fact it is a dui

I thought it would be an OWI...what that changes, I have no idea.

I don't advise drunk riding out in public (on streets, for example) for obvious reasons, but this used to be a hilariously entertaining "event" that developed out of boredom in the campground back in the days that I was racing a mountain bikes a lot. Though some of us ended up being pretty fast, me and the group of guys I rode/raced with never took anything very seriously, so the night before the race it became a pretty regular event to hold drunken riding contests. Beer chug/bunnyhop contest, or the drunken track stand. One particularly bad-idea-filled evening had us launching off of an impromptu ramp over a still very healthy bonfire.

We were at the cactus cup nationals down in Helen, GA one year and the "campground" was a school gymnasium with a stage for drama class or something I guess. We all got hammered and starting riding trials around the gym. I broke my coccyx that night (sp?). Trying to do a rear wheel pick/stall on the edge of the stage, I got stuck in my clipless pedals (I was on a cross country bike) and fell off the stage ass first onto the gym floor. Bike was still connected to me. Jesus H. Harrold, that sucked on many different levels.

While we're on the subject...

Does anybody know what the penalties for B.U.I. (biking under the influence) are? I've always heard rumors of people getting busted, but the penalties were always a mystery. I can't imaging they'd be the same as D.U.I.

varies from state to state.

it is NOT a DUI here. You can get busted for public intoxication, drunk and disorderly etc.

I don't think it counts here either. I have a can holder on my beach cruiser, and it's very frequently populated by a delicious can of bubbly cold goodness. It's the beach, for cripes sakes. I should probably find out though. That'd be an embarassing way to get get popped.

Far as I know, riding drunk in CA is the same as driving drunk. I don't know if it's true, or not, but I heard once that the court once ordered a drunk cyclist to get a drivers license so they could take it away from him. Sounds just stupid enough to be true.

Mark

I ride every alleycat I am in decently drunk and I still do pretty well.

only bad thing about drunk cycling is when you think you are a god of skids, uphill, when you can't balance, and your feet aren't even in the toecages.

Far as I know, riding drunk in CA is the same as driving drunk. I don't know if it's true, or not, but I heard once that the court once ordered a drunk cyclist to get a drivers license so they could take it away from him. Sounds just stupid enough to be true.

Mark
You are right about CA, Ive had a couple friends get popped and they suspended there licenses

last halloween I got so wasted (vodka + beer + champagne = the devil) that I don't remember the ride home at all...all I know is I woke up the next morning with blood all over my halloween costume, the entire right side of my face skin not really there/blood mixed with some really dirty long beach alley filth, my chin split open (thats were all the blood on my costume came from), and 2 sprained wrists..man I still had my costume on..shoes and all, bows in my hair etc...that was way funny...but totally hurt...

I found out later from the friends I rode home with that I didnt fall once, or twice but at least 3 times on the 1-2 mile ride home and that the last fall was the one that ripped my face off and split my chin and happened about 15 ft away from my back gate..and I missed a mattress by about 1 ft...instead landing next to the dumpster...

I got drunk and peed on my ibook once.

Whatever you do, don't let TheRobbStory drink and ride.

<3s you robb.


Seriously. That guy's a dick.

I don't remember riding drunk very often but somehow I get home fine.
that's called the beer taxi dude...as in well i dont remember getting here when you woke up, i guess i took the beer taxi

Seriously. That guy's a dick.

I'm calling you tomorrow because I haven't seen you in maybe 3 or 4 years.

I do bike delivery for a sandwich shop 5 days a week. Two of theses shifts are 10pm until close, about 6am. I have to deal with drunk people in the store, on the street, and on the road. I make myself pretty visible so I am given a pretty wide berth by vehicular traffic but drunken pedestrians are by far the worst people, and the most obnoxious. For some reason the idea of using a bicycle for regular transportation and employment is really funny to frat boys drunk driving their dad's BMW.

I'm fine when I ride drunk. The key is not letting your friends ride YOUR bike drunk.

I just finished converting my ss to a fixie two weeks ago so I am still getting used to riding it. I have taken to drinking a couple beers and going out to practice. It helps me loosen up so I'm not so tense practicing skid stops, trackstands, and the likes.

You are right about CA, Ive had a couple friends get popped and they suspended there licenses

That seems just backwards and ******** enough to be true. Take away my driver's license for riding my bike drunk...that's like taking away someone's bus pass because they littered.

Here in ontario, if you have a driving license, its a DUI. but if you don't its an 18$ fine, I drink and ride all the time, and have the scars to prove it, if i know im going to be drinking a lot a bring the skid lid

I'm calling you tomorrow because I haven't seen you in maybe 3 or 4 years.


Sorry I missed your call. I was at your mom's house eating hot dogs.

:lol: :lol: :roflmao:

Sorry I missed your call. I was at your mom's house eating hot dogs.

Hmmmmm... not your typical momma joke. I think you can do better.

Hmmmmm... not your typical momma joke. I think you can do better.

I thought the obvious absence of humor would indicate actual truth. I was at Luke's Mom's house eating hot dogs. We're in love.

so has anyone actually gotten stopped on a bike for being too sauced?

The last person who rode drunk over here broke his nose, fractured his jaw and took out a couple of teeth.

I was at Luke's Mom's house eating hot dogs. We're in love.

hahahah...ohh..:lol: so good...