We're Alcoholics on Bikes, Apparently

[mimitabby]

I think generalizing that they are drunks because they wearing jeans and not lycra is pretty weak.
The drunks on bikes that i have seen generally look like they've lived a very hard life. the jeans are just a very small detail.
They're easy to pick out, a lot of times they are smoking a cigarette as they go down the road, or they are riding in the rain wearing a jeans jacket and getting drenched. You know they are not pleasure riders who would either stay home in that kind of weather or would have wet weather gear.


they also generally ride without helmets and lights and wear dark clothing. They are who i consider the invisible bicyclists because they are part of the bicycling population but they have no voice.