Drinking and Driving ?

robin bird

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We live in a tourist area and here in Oliver B.C. each year swarms of young French Canadian adventure/farm workers arrive. Last week one of the young guys lent his happy times bike to a drunk girl. Apparently she insisted to drive it-she wore no helmet and crashed it. The gas shutoff goughed a big cut by her crotch and was wisked away by ambulance.she needed stitches.
This really emphasises the dangers of drunk driving especially on a bike.
A guy i sold one of my bikes also crashed it while drunk.
Please do not drink and drive it gives our sport such a bad name and could kill you !
 
I hate it when I drink and ride...It is hard to swig on a can and the darn Pepsi fizzes up and all over my hands...Bottles are the way to go. Bike or otherwise....Drinking and riding/driving don't mix. How stupid.....Although I believe in personal responsibility, the guy should be held partly liable. Drunks can't think, let alone ride/drive.
 
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YES!!!!!!!! Drinking and driving PERIOD is just asinine! Anyone caught should loose more than their licence! My personal expierance has been that these people don't learn and continue to endanger everyone around them. F****n drunks can eat it! I look on craigs for bikes now and then and I see people sellin' their bike as a "beer bike"? WTFH is THAT? If your clearly faced, it does'nt matter what your in or on. You can get thrown in jail for beein' drunk on your own two feet. MORONS
 
I agree with the previous posts. WHy in the wold would you want to drink and drive?? THAT'S INSANE !!! BTW Ron, last time I tried to drink a Pepsi on a bike, I hit a big bump and took a Pepsi bath (LOL) Just another reason why I don't even drink nothin' but H2O on a bike !!!
 
I agree with the previous posts. WHy in the wold would you want to drink and drive?? THAT'S INSANE !!! BTW Ron, last time I tried to drink a Pepsi on a bike, I hit a big bump and took a Pepsi bath (LOL) Just another reason why I don't even drink nothin' but H2O on a bike !!!

Seems like we learned the hard way.... now it has to be in a plastic capped bottle. But H2O is best.
 
I share a different opinion. Once again, a different opinion. People have different tollerances and I feel that the BAC levels are set way too low. Just because one guy sniffs a bottle cap and can't walk, doesn't mean that's the same with me.

While it's true that alcohol impairs your ability to react, if your able to hold your balance on a bike, how plastered could you be?

I've had many nights above .2 and gotten home safe. People need to use common sense and take it easy.

Women shouldn't be allowed to use anything gas opperated, they should stick with batteries, (only joking)!
 
I do agree with you in that respect. But the key words are as mentioned in your post,common sense. I enjoy the libations as much as the next fish but when I'm into my second pitcher of my own, I know better than to get in a car or on anything with wheels. What I'm sayin' is that, and again this is based on personal experience, that the people that need to drink that much don't have that sense of responsibility, or common sense. I have four alchoholics in my family. All of them have been arrested multiple times for D.U.I. and still get behind the freakin' wheel. IDIOTS! I'm a fair person but who I'm talkin' about are the ones who buy these things because they can't stop at their limit. Whatever it may be. I knew a guy named Stoney when i was a kid. Guy could drink a half gallon of Even Williams and get in a car and drive like the sober guy in the car next to him. Bet he still has his liscence. Just, when you've lost the privillage to drive, that means anything with a motor on it guys. Three of those family members will never be able to legally drive again and the other is on their way to that. Just cuz' they couldn't stop drinkin' and drivin'.
 
My opinion? Don't drink and drive. Period.

If you just gotta go to the bar and lift a few (dozen), call a cab. Or ride a horse that knows the way home, unlike your car or MB.

Much as I agree with your argument regarding idiosyncratic differences in the affect of a given measure of alcohol, Mort, the law MUST be defined. Since it must be defined, I am of the opinion that it is currently entirely too liberal in how much alcohol it allows to be in the average Joe's bloodstream before he is legally drunk. Frankly, I'd cut the allowable limit by a factor of four or five, if I could.

For every idiot whose atypical reaction to alcohol allows him too function in an apparently completely sober fashion while at 4 times the legal limit, there is another idiot who is incompetently drunk from sniffing beer bottle caps. The law is a compromise, always, between the extremes, and when it comes to being at the controls of a 1,500 pound or greater missile, I'd prefer error on the side of restraint.
 
My opinion? Don't drink and drive. Period.

If you just gotta go to the bar and lift a few (dozen), call a cab. Or ride a horse that knows the way home, unlike your car or MB.

I'd prefer error on the side of restraint.

I could not say it better myself!!! :helmet:
 
Drinking and Driving

Having lost a daughter at age 19 to a drunk driver (his fifth arrest) I say we have a choice, drive or drink, not both. ZERO tolerance is my preference. Some countries do have zero tolerance. That eliminates the question of how well a guy holds his liquor, it doesn't matter.....any alcohol at all would be illegal.
Woody
 
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