We're Alcoholics on Bikes, Apparently

[smilingcat]

In california its simple.

if you are on your bike and

you run a red light or stop sign, you get a ticket.
you ride over the sped limit, you get a ticket.
you ride drunk, you get a DUI.

just like driving a car. And it goes on your driver license record so watch out on your insurance. not sure about impounding of your bicycle though...

I've seen people getting a ticket for blowing through stop signs. and I know of a guy who was partying on St. Patty day (he is of Irish descent) so when he was pulled over on his bicycle, the police were ready to give him a DUI but my acquintance managed to talk his way out of it. Said something like, "okay officer, I'll just drop my bike off at home and get in a car!" The officers got very alarmed and told him to just go home and unwind there.

Anyway, I thought this thread was more about being addicted to our cycling like long distance runners do with the "runner's high" . sigh...

And my partner said "whaattt??? people think you are alcoholic just because you ride a bike as an adult? Where did they get that stupid idea?" Never crossed our minds.

Smilingcat

[Geonz]

back to the original yahoo - there are always yahoos who make asinine assumptions. Whether or not he persists in them after seeing evidence to the contrary indicates how big a yahoo he is. If I don't wear street clothes 'cause of yahoos, not ony am I limiting my freedom but I'm reinforcing his assumptions.
Sitting out here on my porch, two kinds of vehicles have been going by. Comcast vans, reminding me that I should get my own internet connection so I don't have to sit on the porch (I will ) ... and bicycles, and so far nobody's been in silk skivvies.
This spring I'm seeing easily triple the peope riding bicycles as last spring. I am happy to say I see most of 'em on the street - our sidewalks are lumpy and small - and *usually* going the right way.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Sitting out here on my porch, two kinds of vehicles have been going by. Comcast vans... and bicycles, and so far nobody's been in silk skivvies.

How would you know?

This spring I'm seeing easily triple the peope riding bicycles as last spring.

I am seeing many more people on bikes in our town this Spring too, but maybe only about 25-30% more. Still, that's a big jump from last Spring.