Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Legal Lad, Legal Lad's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. I've heard that I can be cited for DUI and lose my driver's license if I'm stopped by a police officer while riding a bicycle on a public street. Is this true? Allen legal Lad: Walking home isn't necessarily the right option either, as you can get nailed for being drunk in public (quite common in and around university towns.. gotta keep those kids in line!). Personally, I believe that if it's legal to go to a bar, and legal to drink, but illegal to transport yourself in any fashion after leaving a bar, then municipalities should be responsible for providing transportation -- refund the cost of the cab. If the goal is really saving lives, then it would be money well spent. Of course, saving lives is really just a pretense for collecting fines. Random: America is not the land of the free, it's the land of safety first. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is starting to follow our lead, and cracking down on the sort of "miscreant" behavior you describe. http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=18919#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=18919#Comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:46:58 GMT George legal I haven't driven or biked without being drunk as hell for 23 years. Still free of any dui's. http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=17732#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=17732#Comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:21:46 GMT Jeremy legal This might be of interest, but it may be an Urban Myth. I heard that a guy in a small country town in Australia (where you definitely lose your driver's license for DUI on a bicycle) that a guy stumbled out of a pub, hopped onto his horse and got done for DUI. He managed to get off by arguing that he wasn't in control of the horse in that when he gets on it that it knows the way home and he is just sitting on it, which he was able to demonstrate. http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=16162#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=16162#Comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:50:14 GMT Casie Higgins legal can you be arrested for riding a bike intoxicated? http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=13641#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=13641#Comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:22:11 GMT Jack S. legal Also in New Jersey the Department of Transportation says 39:4-14.1 Rights and Duties of Persons on Bicycles. Every person riding a bicycle on a roadway is granted all the rights and subject to all of the duties of the motor vehicle driver. so I believe that means DUI's are applicable to cyclist. http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=13068#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=13068#Comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:21:26 GMT Random legal I always thought America was the land of the free, until I backpacked around Europe. Over there, you can drink a beer while you walk the beach at night. You can smoke some weed in a cafe without getting harassed. You can basically do whatever you want, unless it hurts someone else, and they don't care... So I say, this is our country, and we should take it back. Have a beer and go for a bike ride. Enjoy life. http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=11444#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=11444#Comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:17:48 GMT azbikelaw legal Dear Lad, Intersting column, and timely for me since I am trying to puzzle through this specifically with respect to AZ. In AZ bicycles are NOT vehicles. However, something you didn't address in your column: bicyclists here have "all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this chapter and chapters 4 and 5 of this title..."(ARS 28-812). Chapter 4 is DUI. So despite bikes definitely not being vehicles, it would seem to me that since the dui chapter is specifically mentioned, that bicyclists would be bound by it. thoughts? http://www.azbikelaw.org/blog http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=9949#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=9949#Comments Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:12:08 GMT Jason legal "Walk home, hail a cab, or get a friend to pick you up." It should be noted that if you walk home it is possible to be arrested for being intoxicated in public! Call a cab or a friend! http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=7656#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx?commentid=7656#Comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:52:55 GMT Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:46:58 GMT http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/legal-bicycle-DUI.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us