[Closed] Perplexing bike facts..

this statement is usually immediately followed by a trip to a&e, tbh.

Being so drunk that I cant walk yet still thinking i'm able to ride my bike perfectly

That is the equivalent of "I drank myself sober". What you mean is "Being so drunk that I cant walk yet am so drunk that I THINK that I'm able to ride my bike perfectly".

Edit - So, basically what the captain said 🙂

I've noticed this effect too. Numerous times I've had to use the bike to prop myself up, then do the old leg-over-and-fall-over-the-other-side. But with a small run up to get momentum I'm off and riding, next thing collapsing on the doorstep at home and waking everyone up. Very strange, must be the gyroscopic effect of the wheels keeping me up.

I did once manage to ride 4* miles home, despite being unable to recall anything for about a 12 hour period around that.

*it could have been much further for all i know

It's known as the Ballmer Peak in programming circles:

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yet do the same in a car and you'll be eternally damned...

about 15 years ago I was given a pass to a festival fringe venue in edinburgh in return for some work I did for them. Was riding by one day and thought I'd pop in and see what was going on. Fell down the stairs at 5am thinking I can't ride home in this condition so left the bike locked up and staggered home.

Went to collect the bike the next afternoon, but thought I'd pop into the venue to see what was happening. Fell down the stairs at 5am thinking I can't ride home in this condition so left the bike locked up and staggered home.

Went to collect the bike the next afternoon, but thought I'd pop into the venue to see what was happening. Fell down the stairs at 5am thinking I can't ride home in this condition so left the bike locked up and staggered home.

Went to collect the bike the next afternoon, but thought I'd pop into the venue to see what was happening. Fell down the stairs at 5am thinking I can't ride home in this condition so left the bike locked up and staggered home.

Went to collect the bike the next afternoon, but thought I'd pop into the venue to see what was happening. Fell down the stairs at 5am after a night of tequila slush puppies thinking I can't [i] [b]walk[/b][/i] home in this condition so unlocked the bike which by now had endured several nights of abandoned city centre abuse and rode it back over the old town cobbles with flat tyres, buckled wheels and no saddle, but plenty of seat post. Then rode it back to work 4 hours later, and while being banksman for a reversing truck managed to arrange both myself and the bike the under the tail of the truck.

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Boris bikes are built at the optimum weight and centre of gravity to enable stable riding for the inebriated. That is a cold hard FACT.

Muscle memory. Seen the same thing with musicians who drink themselves incoherent and yet play flawlessly.

Can't speak for musicians but motor skills don't improve when you're shitfaced. Doesn't matter how convinced you are that you were riding like Wiggins or Peat, you were actually wobbling over the road. Obviously I'm sure that everyone on STW is a complete exception to the laws of physiology but pissed people riding bikes in my experience are basically the same as pissed people walking.

Not true... I couldnt manage to get on my bike without the assistance of a bin, yet managed the six mile rough rocky offroad track with two big climbs decents and various sharp bends without incident. Then at the other end struggled to open the garden gate and walk four metres across my patio.

(By the way.. No road was involved).

You sound surprisingly like a mate of mine who told me with a straight face how easy his ride home had been. Having watched him take 10 mins to ride 500m from the pub when we first left, I tried to disabuse him of his recollection. Nothing doing sadly. If you were so drunk you couldn't walk, I doubt your ability to remember the ride particularly well. Got a strava of it? 😉