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From: [email protected] (Dean Woodward)
Subject: Re: Drinking and Riding
Organization: Organization for Mass Confusion.
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[email protected] (Mike Muise) writes:
> In article , [email protected] (Norman Hamer) writes:
> > What is a general rule of thumb for sobriety and cycling? Couple hours
> > after you "feel" sober? What? Or should I just work with "If I drink
> > tonight, I don't ride until tomorrow"?
>
> 1 hr/drink for the first 4 drinks.
> 1.5 hours/drink for the next 6 drinks.
> 2 hours/drink for the rest.
I took an alcohol server's class a few years ago. (What the hey- my employer
paid for it...)
We were told that the 1 drink / hour rule was written with 80 proof booze
and a 195 pound person in mind. Drinking Cuervo Gold, weighing in @ 140,
I obviously will get drunk faster than the theoretical person mentioned
above. Worse, imagine Rum & coke made with Bacardi 151...
Mind you all, that's for getting too drunk to drive a car. I may only
have been riding for a month or so, but I plan my evenings with a very
rigid exclusive or statement: Either don't drink, or don't ride.
Pretty simple.
>
> These are fairly cautious guidelines, and will work even if you happen to
> have a low tolerance or body mass.
> I think the cops and "Don't You Dare Drink & Drive" (tm) commercials will
> usually say 1hr/drink in general, but after about 5 drinks and 5 hrs, you
> could very well be over the legal limit.
> Watch yourself.
> -Mike
Sorry, mike, I have to believe that that policy works best as fertilizer,
even if all you plan to do is drive home nice and "safe" in your cage...
> ________________________________________________
> / Mike Muise / [email protected] \ no quotes, no jokes,
> \ Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo / no disclaimer, no fear.
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