is it illegal to ride a bike whilst intoxicated?

[snorri]

Easy to me ,you ride on the road with many laws the same as motor vehicles so the dd laws should be the same,simples

And pedestrians crossing and walking along the road?

 

[ASC1951]

We all live our life on ifs and maybes and people views on safety are not silly,a accident saved is all good to me ...

No, I don't go along with this 'one person saved' routine. The restriction needs to be proportionate to the risk, otherwise you end up with daft nonsense like needing a CRB check before you can be in a room with someone else's child and a consequent army of bureaucrats employed to achieve nothing.

 

[jayonabike]

Isn't this what bottle cages are for?

 

[classic33]

Isn't this what bottle cages are for? View attachment 11087

You need a larger bottle cage. As can clearly be seen the bottle doesn't fit into the cage.
This could lead to the bottle coming out of the cage, smashing on the road & puncturing your rear tyre.
You'd also lose the contents of the bottle!

 

[snorri]

You'd also lose the contents of the bottle!

No great loss, it's only whiskey, now if it was whisky it would be in my pannier in a padded box.

 

[Hector]

Yes it is, however unless you are recorded by the Police weaving across the road, and then burping and farting in between giving a slurred statement saying that you've just come from the pub when you have necked 10 pints then it is very hard to prove.

As others have stated the Police cannot ask you to give a breath test, so the burden falls to the way you are rding and as long as it is considered 'normal' you don't have any problems.

For me though nothing beats a post pub ride and I have two lasting memories:

1) Riding home on the trike after an Easter bank holiday - I had faith in the old girl (the trike) knowing the way home as I certainly had forgotten - that and which side of the road to ride on. Needless to say other cars had to swerve out the way because I ain't moving.

2) Replying ''a few'' to an officer who had asked me how much I had to drink. He'd pulled me over as I was riding without lights on the road. Told me to get on the pavement but I said I did not want to because it is illegal. So we agreed that I should walk with the bike on the pavement. A win win situation for all I think you'll agree.

 

[slowmotion]

Isn't there the expression "pub bike"? I would imagine that quite a few people ride after partaking of intoxicating liquor..

 

[User482]

Pissed Cycling should be an olympic sport IMO.

I'd be quite good at it.

As I keep telling you, you really do need to come on an FNRttC. I find 4 or 5 rides are sufficient training for your bike to find the train station on the way back...

 

[Fnaar]

When i was at uni many many years ago, i cycled home very very drunk. I managed to scrape most of the skin off my left arm by going too close to a wall, and not being able to steer away from it. I fell into bed, and woke up the next morning covered in blood, sheets covered in blood etc. Don't do it kids, it isn't big and it isn't clever.

 

[Shaun]

A friend of mine has two missing front teeth from his one and only ever drunken ride home.

 

[classic33]

No great loss, it's only whiskey, now if it was whisky it would be in my pannier in a padded box.

Nah, the Irish stuff is better & that in the picture is only the cheap american stuff.

 

[jayonabike]

Nah, the Irish stuff is better & that in the picture is only the cheap american stuff.

Don't knock it until you've tried it, as an easy drinking mid week whiskey the 4 Roses Bourbon goes down a treat. Much better than J.D in my eyes. I've just ordered a bottle of their single barrel bourbon. Oh and scotch is much better than the Irish stuff, at the moment I'm drinking Glenfarclas 15 yr old, a superb sherry cask whisky and in the same order as the bourbon single barrel I've ordered the Glenfarclas 105 cask strength.

 

[MontyVeda]

When i was at uni many many years ago, i cycled home very very drunk. I managed to scrape most of the skin off my left arm by going too close to a wall, and not being able to steer away from it. I fell into bed, and woke up the next morning covered in blood, sheets covered in blood etc. Don't do it kids, it isn't big and it isn't clever.

I did a similar thing on my first piss up aged 15... tried to cycle 5 miles home... was a bit wobbly but quicker then walking, then tried to ride down a narrow alley flanked with a steel palisade fence... which i had some sort of magnetic attraction to, after multiple hits I'd lost a significant amount of skin off my RH knuckles... I didn't get drunk again until I was 19, and that's another story. Beer bad... but I like it!

 

[User169]

Isn't there the expression "pub bike"? I would imagine that quite a few people ride after partaking of intoxicating liquor..

When I saw the name, I knew it was the bike for me...

 

[slowmotion]

WOW! I sought out BSP Boozz bikes and found a picture. This is the perfect pub bike...it even has plenty of cargo space for take-way cans and bottles!