I would sometimes drink 6 beers before leaving work. 6 beers was a warm up for many things. When I started riding dirt bikes in the desert it was just another excuse to drink and get butt-faced. Total alcoholic. I was even (a small) part of a study of alcoholic children of alcoholic parents.

I got very sick and quit in the late 80s. Actually had 2 beers in 1990 when visiting an alcoholic friend in another state, but not a drop since.
Bicycling helped with quitting but I was still drinking when I started riding. Seemed to me more of my dirt bike friends were alcoholics than bicycling friends.

This reminds me of when someone asked an NFL player about drug problems in the NFL. He responded that the biggest drug problem in the NFL was the same as in any other endeavor, and society at large, alcohol.