raleighnut
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A Doughnoholic.................................... do they have meetings......................... other than in coffee shops.
Drinking and cycling. Is there a problem?
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Brandane
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Are they called "doughnoholics", or just plain old "nutters"?A Doughnoholic.................................... do they have meetings......................... other than in coffee shops.
Turbo Rider
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Oh, I don't. Look hard enough and I'm sure there'll be an example of a drunken cyclist killing someone else. Probably a drunken skateboarder and a drunken scooterer too, for that matter. I can't stand any drunks though, if I'm honest.
raleighnut
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Dunno but I've been known to buy a bag from the 'fresh Do-nut' kiosk near Leicester market (you can watch em come out of the oil on a conveyor chain thingy 2 by 2) rush home and brew a nice strong black coffee, uncork and pour a glass of malt, then devour.
(see earlier post)
This might be what's clouding your judgement on the issue...
Low Roller
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And flaccid membership is the resultant outcome?? ( I just love that word "flaccid". Do I have to do anything special to join the ranks of flaccid members, apart from drink too much?)
Yes. That's why we like you.
Pale Rider
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Having a couple of pints and wobbling home along a country lane on an unlit bicycle is a fine rural tradition.
And it's one that is occasionally my pleasure to uphold when I visit my brother's holiday lodge in Shropshire.
And it's one that is occasionally my pleasure to uphold when I visit my brother's holiday lodge in Shropshire.
Getting out of ones face and then jumping on a bike is one of the few remaining pleasures in life which hasn't been outlawed (unless completely bladdered, which I am aware IS illegal).
Long may it continue. It's not like we are in charge of a potentially very fast moving ton of metal; we are only going to hurt ourselves.
Pedestrian hit by drunk cyclist dies
On July 4, just before the start of a fireworks show in Truckee, CA, Petra Bakker-Borhani, while riding her bicycle, struck Leonard Whitlow, who was in town from Sparks, Nevada, to see the show.
Bakkar-Borhani was arrested by Truckee police and booked into the Nevada County jail on charges of riding under the influence of alcohol.
According to a July 9 article in the Sacramento Bee, Whitlow died of the injuries he received as a result of being hit. He was in Reno's Renown Hospital with major head trauma.
http://www.examiner.com/article/pedestrian-hit-by-drunk-cyclist-dies
Turbo Rider
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Ha, ha, no, it's really not and there's no clouded judgement. I just think drinking should be done responsibly, if there is such a thing, and that people should be considerate enough not to make themselves more dangerous than they already are.
slowmotion
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
...and don't call me "old"... Bastard!
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Perhaps we should have variable legal levels of alcohol limits for different sized vehicles then.
Maybe a vehicle mass related sliding scale that starts at 1mg for whopping great big multi-axled truck drivers going all the way up to however many mg you like for sanctimonious cyclists.
Piemaster
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This gives me an idea - a drinking/cycling sport. Theres already cyclocross as a crossover so...
A cyclocross race in which you have to have a beer on every lap, could even be considered as a handicap race. Bigger guys with a liking for ale and probably a higher tolerance for alcohol against the weight weenies, faster at first but affected by the beer more as race wears on.
Dunno if it's really a goer, but I fully intend to start training for it.
A cyclocross race in which you have to have a beer on every lap, could even be considered as a handicap race. Bigger guys with a liking for ale and probably a higher tolerance for alcohol against the weight weenies, faster at first but affected by the beer more as race wears on.
Dunno if it's really a goer, but I fully intend to start training for it.
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