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@jefefelipe
at my age, I couldn't even do that walking
worst drunken/bicycle episode:
When I was working in an office above ealing broadway shopping centre. I used to cycle down the long steep car park ramp to exit. Some after work drinks had left me somewhat the worse for wear. I was accelerating down the ramp, just as a lorry was exiting the underground delivery area (which merged at the bottom of the car park ramp into 1 lane with the car park exit).
Fortunately I had enough brain power left to deduce that the lorry might not see me; unfortunately this didn't transmit into a coordinated braking manouevre that wouldn't leave me lying in a heap on the floor. I picked myself up, dusted myself down, cycled off down the hill to Brentford, in what can only be described as clown like fashion with loose handlebars, & what might as well have been square wheels; I don't know how I managed to traverse the A4 roundabout.
My wife didn't know whether to laugh, cry, get angry; I was covered in blood, clothes ripped, reeked of alcohol...etc. People at work tried in vain (thankfully) to see if they could get cctv. footage.