Riding drunk

I made it..

i also made it home tonight, though probably shouldnt have.

@ Greasy Slag & Melon

Was having a similiar conversation with a few people at Souths this week, discussing how can you stagger towards your stead, try and jam the wrong key in your bike lock, yet as soon as you get in the saddle the bike gods hand guides you home!

I know what you mean. A couple of weeks ago we had an department 'Away-Day' that consisted of a treasure hunt round the streets of Liverpool and ended for me at about 3am having cycled 13 miles home after far too many bottles of booze.

I picked up my rucksack the next morning to find it contained two bottles of wine, two bike locks, one complete change of clothing including shoes, as well as the usual pump repair kit and spanners. There is no way I'd dream of carrying that weight sober - the bike gods must have carried that for me all the way home, and the homing instinct kicked in. I just remember stopping once to put a warm hat on because my hangover had seriously kicked in and head was banging after about 8 miles.

Strangely though next day I felt fine, if a little lacking in energy.

I won't be doing it again in a hurry.

Low speed crash into bollard last time I attended West End drinks (long time ago), but seemingly felt like I was Eddy Merckx on the way home - the adult equivalent of getting Dunlop Green Flash at the age of 10 or coming out of a Superman film... (either that or I'm a sad fuck).

So has anyone ever thrown up while riding a bicycle?

I went to a squat party with my mate, we got absolutely battered drinking cider, smoking rastafarian old holborn, pills, ket... etc... anyway we rode there (bad mistake!) locked up bikes at petrol garage (so someone could guard them for us) on the way back to the bikes my mate was in a bad way. we unlocked the bikes, got on, both of us fell straight off, got back on (helping each other to stand up), started riding... I felt ok once I started to feel the breeze (woke me up a bit), my mate though, he threw up all over his handle bars & on his legs & shoes. we had to ride for about 2 hours to get home, stopping for numerous piss/puke breaks. Bloody lightweight, cant take him anywhere.

Couple of weeks ago, riding home, 17 shots of vodkat, 3 cans, 5 mile cycle though west end, was fun, till i caught my foot in the front wheel trying to show off, fun night, yummy bruise.

Overuse of commas.

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I went to a squat party with my mate, we got absolutely battered drinking cider, smoking rastafarian old holborn, pills, ket... etc... anyway we rode there (bad mistake!) locked up bikes at petrol garage (so someone could guard them for us) on the way back to the bikes my mate was in a bad way. we unlocked the bikes, got on, both of us fell straight off, got back on (helping each other to stand up), started riding... I felt ok once I started to feel the breeze (woke me up a bit), my mate though, he threw up all over his handle bars & on his legs & shoes. we had to ride for about 2 hours to get home, stopping for numerous piss/puke breaks. Bloody lightweight, cant take him anywhere.

Pills and ket in one night, no thanks

We were on a proper bender that day/night/day... wont do that again in a hurry (was fun though) spent the next week or so recovering. was about 10 years ago (more like 6 years ago thinking about it)

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I'm a good boy now, I'm in bed by 8:30pm after cocoa & eastenders... NOT!?

Would imagine 'Stallionlegs' and the ket wouldn't be the best of mixes? just an idea.

made me lofr... (lay on floor relaxing) ...until I realized I was on a filthy floor covered in empty beer cans, fag butts & a load of bods jumping about like loons!?!?!? I then got up, dusted myself down & looked for my salt lick

Last weekend I was going home from a concert here in Copenhagen, very drunk since there was FREE BEER(!!!) the first couple of hours, when for some reason I wanted to take a shortcut down a side road. Bad idea, since i then had about 2 meters to stop before hitting a big chain that was blocking the road... Got some pretty deep scratches in my head tube, but for some reason I didn't fall over.
I think it must have looked really funny though, a guy on a trackbike with a bling-bling white disc wheel stopping really fast with the help of a really big chain ;)

[SIZE=2]There was a pre-arranged lunchtime drinks leaving ‘party’ for someone at work so my mate sensibly opted to leave the bike at home that day knowing he’d more than likely get pissed up . He did.
About 3pm he announced that he had to go and pick up his daughter from school and thats the last we saw of him until the next morning when he turned up patched up , bruised and bloodied. Some folks asked if he’d got into a fight but it turned out that when he got home he thought it would be a ‘nice idea’ to cycle to the school and take his daughters bike with him as it was a lovely sunny day and it would be a nice surprise for her.
That’s what he tried to do but got 50 yards and crashed with himself and the 2 bikes. He walked the rest of the way (with the bikes) to the school gates and waited with all the other parents/guardians to greet his daughter .
This was a school that was actively promoting cycling for kids …..
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"bike punks, bike punks
riding to the pub we're already drunk
bike punks, we've got no brakes
so get out the way for fucking fuck's sake!"

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Some useful stuff here.
http://ukcyclerules.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/can-you-ride-when-youve-been-drinking/

Seems you can only be drunk in charge of a bike when pushing a bike not when riding one !

So if I turn up at court with footage of me riding equally shit whilst sober then I'm cool? Good to know ;O)

I rode home drunk tonight - I've been doing it for years (I started this thread in 2008 and you can read this beauty as well) but tonight i fucked someone else up. I cut in front of a girl I work with and put her over her handlebars. As it happens she was fine, as was her bike, but I just wanted to kind of officially say that however sweet it is to get drunk and ride a bicycle that was the last time ever that I'll do it.

also I need a cheap front wheel if anyone has one?

my greatest personal argument reaped from personal experience against riding drunk, is the loss of my bikes. Somehow i always manage to make it home, but the bike winds up somewhere between where i started, and where i ended up. and i have yet to ever locate it afterwords. Lost a great little schwinn super le tour Ss that way, and also a absolutely wonderful kabuki submariner fixed gear that i built up.

my greatest personal argument reaped from personal experience against riding drunk, is the loss of my bikes. Somehow i always manage to make it home, but the bike winds up somewhere between where i started, and where i ended up. and i have yet to ever locate it afterwords. Lost a great little schwinn super le tour Ss that way, and also a absolutely wonderful kabuki submariner fixed gear that i built up.

Maybe riding SPuD pedals, and really cranking up the release pressure, will stop you loosing the bike? Make you a track standing God as a side advantage.

Maybe riding SPuD pedals, and really cranking up the release pressure, will stop you loosing the bike? Make you a track standing God as a side advantage.

Id certainly be an expert at the horizontal track stand within a single ride home.

Id certainly be an expert at the horizontal track stand within a single ride home.

Hey, come on the next Guinness Ride, you sound perfectly qualified.

Hey, come on the next Guinness Ride, you sound perfectly qualified.

that my good sir (assuming from the handle), would make me an expert at the submerged track stand on my way home. As a yank (i think yall call us that) from across the pond im afraid i wont be physically partaking in many rides or get togethers with other members.