Tip on how to cycle faster...
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Simba
Specialized Allez 24 Rider
- Location
- Tottington - Lancashire
No thanks, I would rather be alcohol free when on the roads.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Now I'm older and taking medication due to a kidney disorder my alcohol tolerance has really gone down so 99.99% of the time I cycle sober. However, on the very rare occasion I have had a couple of pints before cycling home, I've really enjoyed the ride. My legs seem to feel about 2 decades younger - maybe because 2 decades ago, I did it regularly. (Incident free, I might add - all my offs and unscheduled bonnet polishings have been while sober and in daylight.)
So I guess while I don't condone doing it, it reminds me of one of the youthful pleasures of riding.
So I guess while I don't condone doing it, it reminds me of one of the youthful pleasures of riding.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
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1. Drink two pints of Ruby Red at The Jerusalem Tavern...
You'll be home in no time. 60 mins it took me to cycle 15 miles across London. Flying across potholes, waving cheerily to friendly drivers, taking RDBs with filtering ease.
It's the drink of whores and priests, Jesus and Beelzebub, hairy real alers and cosmo lipsticked barristers.
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You must have been more drunk then you think to have thought post bragging about it would be a good thing.
If any other road user had posted in that way I don't think it would such a 'cheery' thing.
I wonder how many other road users had to take evasive action to ensure you arrived home alive while you waved and filtered your way around RDBs?
But you wouldn't know as you were just thinking how easy the ride home was.
In the same way other road users under the influence think they are fantastic drivers more then capable of outrunning the police and flying over speed bumps.
1. Drink two pints of Ruby Red at The Jerusalem Tavern...
You'll be home in no time. 60 mins it took me to cycle 15 miles across London. Flying across potholes, waving cheerily to friendly drivers, taking RDBs with filtering ease.
It's the drink of whores and priests, Jesus and Beelzebub, hairy real alers and cosmo lipsticked barristers.
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You must have been more drunk then you think to have thought post bragging about it would be a good thing.
If any other road user had posted in that way I don't think it would such a 'cheery' thing.
I wonder how many other road users had to take evasive action to ensure you arrived home alive while you waved and filtered your way around RDBs?
But you wouldn't know as you were just thinking how easy the ride home was.
In the same way other road users under the influence think they are fantastic drivers more then capable of outrunning the police and flying over speed bumps.
I had two pints of beer the other week and then walked home. I think the majority of people would find that perfectly 'cheery'
markg0vbr
Über Member
- Location
- rawmarsh rotherham
pole butt remove, repeat.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I went for a summer evening ride with two friends once. We'd intended to do a tour of the local hills but my mates got seduced by the Packhorse Inn on the road to Widdop Reservoir. They persuaded me to join them. I had just 1 pint and it went straight to my head. I felt unsafe riding home and nearly broke my neck descending this ...
2 pints of strong ale in London? Yes to the ale, no to the cycling home afterwards!
2 pints of strong ale in London? Yes to the ale, no to the cycling home afterwards!
gb155
Fan Boy No More.
- Location
- Manchester-Ish
Is that Mankinholes ?
Its been about 13 years since I lived in Tod, I remember climbing past "The Sports man" pub as a super fit kid one summer when I was about 14
Its been about 13 years since I lived in Tod, I remember climbing past "The Sports man" pub as a super fit kid one summer when I was about 14
I went for a summer evening ride with two friends once. We'd intended to do a tour of the local hills but my mates got seduced by the Packhorse Inn on the road to Widdop Reservoir. They persuaded me to join them. I had just 1 pint and it went straight to my head. I felt unsafe riding home and nearly broke my neck descending this ...
2 pints of strong ale in London? Yes to the ale, no to the cycling home afterwards!
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
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I'm not "boasting".
I'm describing the sheer delight arising from the perfect combination of supping two fine pints, a lovely pub, London and cycling.
And considering the nmber of p******e ridden rides I've had this year in the dark, cold, wet, oily-muddy, pot-holed roads it was karma to have a good 'un.
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Indeed! You can't beat the feeling of immortality you get from alcohol. It is the biggest sense of false security money can buy. Other than lysergic acid diethylamide.
I'm not "boasting".
I'm describing the sheer delight arising from the perfect combination of supping two fine pints, a lovely pub, London and cycling.
And considering the nmber of p******e ridden rides I've had this year in the dark, cold, wet, oily-muddy, pot-holed roads it was karma to have a good 'un.
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Indeed! You can't beat the feeling of immortality you get from alcohol. It is the biggest sense of false security money can buy. Other than lysergic acid diethylamide.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Nope, it's Blake Dean on Widdop Road - see Google Steetview.
Move the viewpoint down to the bridge below, then turn round and do a virtual climb past the scout hostel. It's a steep little bugger is that!
The climb up to Mankinholes is one I do quite often on the way to Littleborough. It avoids the busy valley roads through Tod to Walsden and gets a nice steep extra climb in.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
i always try and use a blast of wind power from behind
which was, lest we forget, test-ridden on a bicycle!
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I'm not "boasting".
I'm describing the sheer delight arising from the perfect combination of supping two fine pints, a lovely pub, London and cycling.
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Quite. Sounds pretty damn cheery to me. St Peter's Ales come in particularly lovely bottles as well. What's not to like?
I'm not "boasting".
I'm describing the sheer delight arising from the perfect combination of supping two fine pints, a lovely pub, London and cycling.
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Quite. Sounds pretty damn cheery to me. St Peter's Ales come in particularly lovely bottles as well. What's not to like?
guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
Breathalysed on a bike produces the same result as in a motor vehicle. Big fine and loss of license (even if you don't have one you lose it) together with increased insurance when you get it back.
I read once of an old boy who went to pub on horse and cart. He got blathered and let horse take him home. He still got done for being drunk in charge of a road vehicle.
I read once of an old boy who went to pub on horse and cart. He got blathered and let horse take him home. He still got done for being drunk in charge of a road vehicle.
