Don't drink and ride

CYCLING home from the pub might be just as dangerous as taking the car,
according to Guohua Li and his colleagues from Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore. “Riding a bike requires a higher level of psychomotor skills and
physical coordination than driving a car, so alcohol has an even stronger
effect,” says Li. In a study of 466 riders, they found that having four or five
drinks made a cyclist 20 times more likely to be seriously hurt or killed
(The Journal of the American Medical Association, vol 285, p 893).
Even one drink made the journey six times…