Men are Better than Women at Cycling...when Really Pissed.

[threebikesmcginty]

I wasn't sure on the best forum for this; Health or maybe Special Interests, I dunno.

Anyway it's good to know in this frivolous day and age that important study is still taking place by back-room boffins interested more in real issues than loony lab stuff that no one cares about.

This research could explain why one forum member has cycled into the same bush twice when tired and emotional.

http://road.cc/content/news/150549-study-men-safer-saddle-women-when-extremely-drunk

 

[Hill Wimp]

I would like to answer this after the 18th and a weekend with @hopless500 and her beer monster other half and the ride back from the pub. Two females and one bloke, l
i will let you know who is the competant rider then.

 

[byegad]

I took part in that study, but I washn't as peep as thunkle drinked I wash!

 

[BigAl68]

I drunk cycle very well, even better when clipped in. It's not something I am proud of and try to not do it on roads but the call of the cider sometimes is too much to resist.

 

[Lilliburlero]

I already knew this. My wife smashed into the back of a parked car after 2 glasses of wine.... She hit it so hard that it bent the forks

 

[Hill Wimp]

Im quite looking forward to seeing Mr Hop fail dismally at this task. He is one of those whippet thin, mountain climbing,sprinters of a cyclist and a drinker of huge amounts of ale.

I may have to supervise what goes in his glass closely

 

[Hill Wimp]

You will be posting pictures, Hils.

Im not sure i will be in a fit state. If i do i may never be allowed to enter the republic of Norfolk again.

 

[Speicher]

I notice that the article does not clarify some parameters. It does not declare whether the participants were cyclists or just normal (?) people.

Perhaps there was a higher percentage of "whippet thin, mountain climbing sprinters" in the group of males. Also those males might have had more practice at cycling while drunk.

Whereas the females, being of a more sensible disposition, had no prior learning of cycling drunkly.

 

[theclaud]

I wasn't sure on the best forum for this; Health or maybe Special Interests, I dunno.

Anyway it's good to know in this frivolous day and age that important study is still taking place by back-room boffins interested more in real issues than loony lab stuff that no one cares about.

This research could explain why one forum member has cycled into the same bush twice when tired and emotional.

http://road.cc/content/news/150549-study-men-safer-saddle-women-when-extremely-drunk

Roughly how many pints of Jaipur IPA would result in a blood alcohol level of 1.43g/kg for an average-sized person?

 

[ayceejay]

I knew a bloke who put a drop of whisky in his water bottle "so it wouldn't taste like water" he said. I once saw him do a dive over the handlebars after hitting a rock on the trail, and landing in some nettles, he got up and got straight back on the bike. "Didn't feel a thing".

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Roughly how many pints of Jaipur IPA would result in a blood alcohol level of 1.43g/kg for an average-sized person?

Just try to remember how many you had last time and then have a couple less.

 

[theclaud]

Needless to say, I am highly suspicious of the findings of this so-called study...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It's cobblers isn't it, I'm just amazed that anyone would give over 'academic' time to such a load of nonsense.

 

[theclaud]

Just try to remember how many you had last time and then have a couple less.

Where's the fun in that?

 

[slowmotion]

Roughly how many pints of Jaipur IPA would result in a blood alcohol level of 1.43g/kg for an average-sized person?

I'm 76 kg and have about 5700ml of blood. The drink drive limit is 80mg ethanol per 100ml of blood. That means that when I have 4.56g of ethanol in my body, I'm probably going to fail a blood test. 4.56g of ethanol (total) equates to 0.06g/kg for me. If my blood alcohol was 1.43g/kg, I would be 24 times the drink drive limit.....

....about 35 pints of Jaipur IPA.