Cycling to the pub...

[thedatastream]

...is great, takes less than 5 minutes to my local

Cycling back however... not aided by the fact it is uphill on the way home and my doggy bag of lamb dhansak and half a naan bounced off the handlebars at some point. I was looking forward to that for lunch tomorrow.

Any good tales of riding to or from the pub?

 

[david k]

considered it myself, but how liely are you to be pulled up after 8 pints?

 

[sabian92]

I've cycled hungover before... never again. It's the worst feeling ever. I'd never bike to or from the pub (and drink that is) without another way of getting home.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Doggy bag? You're a cyclist and it's a lamb dhansak - just eat it! You've earned it. And if you've eaten too much, just cycle faster.

 

[CopperCyclist]

You'll only be pulled up if your riding reflects the amount you've drunk badly. There's no legal limit of alcohol for cycling, so it's all down to whether it's affected your riding or not really. The points to prove for police is that you were unfit through drink and impairment tests would be used.

So one of my mates who can drink two pints and be staggering around would fail at two, whilst I have another (rather larger) friend who could drink about ten and seem unaffected.

As always the safest is to avoid it, however I will happily accept that I use the bike to go to shift drinks at the pub and cycle home afterwards, however never to excess! (Don't drink that much anyway tbh)

Use clipless pedals and drive in a tight and slow circle before you leave the car park. If you fall over, you are too drunk. /end Tongue in cheek

 

[Keith Oates]

I have ridden a bike to the pub many times but I keep the number of drinks low, if I'm going out for a 'good night' then the bike stays home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rodgy-dodge]

husband used to ride to the pub to meet his brother once a week. The last time he did this someone knicked his wheels or I should say MY wheels as he used MY bike at the time because mine wasn't as expensive as his! Needless to say he didn't Bike there again.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

About 20 years ago I cycled home from the Fairport Convention Cropredy Festival after an all-day spree. That was when I realised that that being sh1t-faced in charge of a bicycle wasn't a brilliant idea.

Rarely touch the stuff these days!

 

[Paulus]

husband used to ride to the pub to meet his brother once a week. The last time he did this someone knicked his wheels or I should say MY wheels as he used MY bike at the time because mine wasn't as expensive as his! Needless to say he didn't Bike there again.

Did he buy you some new shiny upgraded wheels as an apology?

 

[Paulus]

I have rode home from the pub many times after a couple of pints, but it is downhill all the way to where I live. I get the workout on the way to the pub to ease my conscience of the calories I put on at the Inn.

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

I rode to the pub and got drunk once, never again. It was a few years ago before I got back into cycling. I was living out in the sticks at the time, and the pub was a fair walk. So I decided to take my mtb. After a couple of beers noticed the whiskey selection on offer, had a couple, a couple more and a few for the road. I left and decided I was ok and cycling wouldn't be a problem. I got off the car park and managed about ten metres and fell off. Stupidly got back on and thought I'd have another go, about 30 metres down the road off again. So I decided to push it back. Got home checked my wounds, grazed palms and cut elbows were the order of the day! Never done it again, nor plan to!

 

[Fnaar]

I once (at uni) cycled about 5 miles home after a skinful... went down a hill on the pavement (yes I know, I was young and irresponsible) and managed to scrape against a wall, taking huge amounts of skin (from skinful to skinless) off my left forearm... haven't cycled under the influence since (except maybe with a hangover)

 

[Gixxerman]

As a youth, my regular was the Red Lion in Market Rasen.
I remember one of the locals called Bob, a local window cleaner and one of the towns notorious residents.
He was mid-40's, a bit of a drinker and always cycled to the pub (actually having no car he cycled everywhere).
One memorable night, he left to go home it a right state. We could hear him outside talking to someone and then shouting.
Looking out the window we could see him trying to mount his steed, and the talking and shouting was aimed at the bike.
It was just simply hilarious watching him walking round in circles trying deparately to get mounted whilst shouting at the bike to 'keep still'.
After countless failed attempts whereby he kept falling over the bike, he eventually got mounted, only to fall off after a matter of yards of meandering cycling.
We went outside to see if he was ok, after several minutes of checking him and the bike over and seeing neither was damaged, we suggested that it might be safer to walk. He told us he was ok and asked one of us to hold the bike still whilst he got on. One of the lads did so, and he mounted and wobbled off home.
Looking back, it was silly to let him ride in that state. But back then, the traffic was a lot lighter, and he lived in the town and didn't have that far to travel, so the danger was not great.

 

[ohnovino]

I've cycled hungover before... never again. It's the worst feeling ever.

Me too. It was only 5 miles, but I ended up walking the last mile because I'd scared myself with how poor my reactions were. I remember stopping at a red light, and really struggling to work out what I was supposed to do when the lights turned green.

 

[sabian92]

Me too. It was only 5 miles, but I ended up walking the last mile because I'd scared myself with how poor my reactions were. I remember stopping at a red light, and really struggling to work out what I was supposed to do when the lights turned green.

I take my helmet off to you then, I did a mile and thought it was the worst idea ever!

I was only 14, maybe 15 though at the time and I made plenty of daft decisions then (and, still do...

). No drunk cycling though. I'd never drunk drive either - I find dangerous things quite find funny when I'm drunk so that wouldn't ever go well.

I didn't know there was no law against drunk cycling. I thought you could still be done for it.