‘ “Someone who’s inebriated while riding a bicycle represents a hazard for themselves and for others. This is why we’re concerned,” said Insp. André Durocher of the SPVM in an interview’ . Duh?? Someone who’s inebriated while doing anything represents some level of hazard – unless they are sitting on the couch at home about to fall asleep. Why not write an article about drinking while walking? I tell you why not – because the risk is small. A hazard exists, but the risk of anything devastating occurring is not worth focusing on it. The risks of damaging occurrence from drinking and biking don’t compare to drinking and car driving. When was the last time that anyone was killed anywhere from a drinking and biking event? Yet drinking and driving property damage, major injuries, and fatalities happen everyday. Let’s keep the focus on where it needs to be – drinking and driving… and not start ringing bells and raising red-flags to focus the authorities on a supposed biking problem that does not exist.

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Here here; I was completely sober when I chipped my front tooth riding a bike (with soft things hanging off the front handlebars which caught in the front fork,oopsie). And never injured when riding home after drinking. Sometimes sobriety makes one overconfident… 😉

Exactly. Cyclists, drunk or sober, very rarely injure anyone else, much less kill them…unlike motorists who kill lots of people every day. In the U.S. last year, there were fewer cyclist-on-pedestrian fatalities than there were people dying from falling off of stuff taking selfies or by sharks. It’s not exactly an epidemic. Now, in places like NYC or San Fran, inconsiderate roadies might injure pedestrians at a higher rate, but that’s not necessarily correlated to drinking.