LSD on a bike are you mad?!

The man who discovered LSD while riding home has died. Quite a funny little story if you didn't know it already (I didn't).

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/cycling-lsd-discoverer-dies-aged-102-16085

That's sad news. One of my heroes :(

Ripe old age though :)

A hundred and fucking two! Anyone know where I can get some trips?

RIP Abbie

To be fair to him he would have needed the bike to escape the monstrous pink elephants and technicolour giant flesh-eating spiders...

Told you kids, DRUGS KILL!

Told you kids, DRUGS KILL!

verrrryy slooooowly

Imortalised in the great and probaly mostly unheard song by late eighties indie band , The Family Cat , on "Albert Hoffmann's Bike".

i remember cycling around hyde park with a couple of hundred other colourful bikers for the 50th anniversary of lsd. Rinkydink soundsystem did the business with a couple of 303 twiddlers on the back. A couple of lads on a bmx with a big yin-yan on the handlebars had a big bag of penguins... Anyone else remember this?!

I don't remember it because I was there ;)

Looks like I will have to swap tonight's beers for some acid for the ride home in honour of the Hoff.

a big bag of penguins... Anyone else remember this?!

I would remember the big bag of cute flightless birds, definitely. I think I was in Hull in those days, where Strawberrys went for about £2 a pop ...

Ah Spiders never looked the same again after a couple of purple ohms and a daffy duck ;-)

The voice of Mr Hoffmann recounting his first experience is on Radio 4 right now. His neighbour who tried to help him apparently looked like "some kind of demon". I think i have the same neighbour.

Fuck - I could barely walk. I would need that michelin man suit to ride a bike on acid.

I would remember the big bag of cute flightless birds, definitely. I think I was in Hull in those days, where Strawberrys went for about £2 a pop ...

...double dip strawberrys = hours of fun :D

Kubla Khan in the toilet, Jesus on toast, infinity cats.....never again.

no never! :)

I found it hard to walk on acid!Bike riding, now thats 'core!

its like cycling into a Kaleidoscope

would not advise it

Tales of an SF Bike Messenger/Acid Addict.

some people live and others eat shit and die.

and

towelhead taxi drivers

I'd wish him luck, if i we're a better liar. Wanker.

After getting turfed in the very early hours of the morning I somehow made it from archway to Tuffy P, only to suddenly snap back, loudly scream FUCK THAT, and end up spending the next 3 days in a mates house.

Good shit.

Not read the article but Albert Hoffman discovered acid while pedalling home one evening. I do recall "penny farthing" blotters on the anniversary of his birth

I've just been on Turbobricks, read the title and thought "who'd fit a limited slip diff to a bike?"

Not read the article but Albert Hoffman discovered acid while pedalling home one evening. I do recall "penny farthing" blotters on the anniversary of his birth

even if thats urban myth its a good one...

No I took them

So surprised I remember.

remember what?