Is riding fixed the best for pissed cycling?

Works for me :)

Apart from a fight with a chain linking two posts :)
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread708-18.html#post65064

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Fixed, Freewheel or geared. When I am drunk I ride like a twatt. I got hit from behind on the way home from West drinks last week, Don't really remember anything about it apart from the woman who hit me was hot as sin. I was pissed and fixed, It didn't hurt and now my back wheel looks like a Taco :-)

I thought the hardest part would be the uphills - but you definitely seem to just float up them after a few bevvies. My problem is I have a huge frame and was using spds - and after rolling to a stop coordinating unclipping / getting foot to ground / arse off saddle was a multitask too far. have learnt since to pre empt any de mounting...

Drunken skateboarding FTW

Gyroscopic force innit?

riding drunks fine as long as your rolling. great if you don't have to stop between start and finish. bad when you find yourself stopped and forget to slide your feet out of the pedals...

Could someone please post the obligatory comment about drunk cycling being antisocial, dangerous and to be discouraged?

Drunk cycling is neither big nor clever. It is ant-social and dangerous

But it's also fun.

As to whether it's best done fixed, define best.

Drunk bmxing = lots of crashes (but no pain until the next morning)
Drunk snowboarding = major concussion and knee injury, plus almost broken nose...this usually hurts right away
Drunk fixie tricks = occasional crashes, of which some can be painful
Drunk fixed riding = pain free so far :)

All from personal experience :p

Thanks Mike ;o)

Could someone please post the obligatory comment about drunk cycling being antisocial, dangerous and to be discouraged?

Of COURSE cycling can be a bit tricky after 13 pints ... what isn't?

It's these twats who manage to crash whilst stone cold sober we should be having a pop at.

Of COURSE cycling can be a bit tricky after 13 pints ... what isn't?

It's these twats who manage to crash whilst stone cold sober we should be having a pop at.

Touche. I am feeling very sore this morning after leaving half my right buttock's skin on the boards of Manchester velodrome. I was, as I always am, stone cold sober.

Hmmm. My flatmate rode home drunk on Friday, but the pilchard had his lock around his neck, hit a car and now he has a small, ugly vagina on his chin and bruises all over his shoulder.

I'd say a few beers is okay, or even improves your skills. Anything past 6 pints and you're likely to faceplant into a car bumper.

Have not attempted drunk cycling, but skateboarding seems to sober you up ok enough to get home - for me kitesurfing stoned - ftw

and managed to skid/drift halfway round the Rotherhithe roundabout and then tow my skateboarding friend most of the way home to New Cross)

I love the fact that fester thinks that drift skidding around Rotherhithe roundabout is an essential cycling skill that is impressively maintained under drunkenness.

WIN

fixed drunk ftw. Whoever said skateboarding, that's a no no, i smashed up and broke my elbow in style doing that on a longboard, rolled off laughed, got home, couldn't open a beer, next day and more sober visit to a&e.

Drunk cycling... wise man say: 'it's all fun and games until someone loses a bollock'.

Although I've managed to avoid this particular injury, my ankle is still hurting 2 months after falling into road works riding home drunk.

I find cycling fixed after (quite) a few drinks no problem.
Last time I did it on a freewheel I stacked it in front of a large group of laughing, chavvy teens and broke my wrist : (
Peddling more slowly and the bike not slowing down was too much for me so instead I fell off.
Went for my first ride yesterday since then. It's a beautiful thing.

After this experience I have to agree drunk on a fixed is much easier, if you are used to fixed.

Drunk cycling... wise man say: 'it's all fun and games until someone loses a bollock'.

Although I've managed to avoid this particular injury, my ankle is still hurting 2 months after falling into road works riding home drunk.

One thing I know is that cycling while intoxicated (within a reason) is far less dangerous than swimming.
I used to sail a lot when I was younger and have seen a lot of the latter one - including one case in which my mates and me were too late to help the person who decided to have a swim after drinking a bottle of vodka:-/

I can't be fucked to read the whole of this thread but I think cycling pissed and joking about cycling pissed is really pathetic. I am no saint and have had a few indiscretions, but it's undeniably dangerous. If someone on this forum was knocked off their bike by a drunk motorist there would be an uproar yet it's fine for us to be on the road all merry and reckless? The argument that cyclists are less of a threat than cars, whilst certainly the case, does not make it ok. Sorry to be so grumpy, but that's just my view.

Sorry to be so grumpy, but that's just my view.

You're not grumpy at all, mate. You are absolutely right.

I think it's a primal survival instinct that makes you sober up when necessary.

How the fuck were people getting drunk in the primeval era?

It's a primal instinct to survive no matter what - if you're drunk, medicated, ill, tired etc. Adrenaline...

I prefer riding fixed when I'm pissed than free wheel, have fallen asleep free a few times but never fixed as its hard to fall asleep when your legs are going round