Comments on: Tour de Bar Palm Beach: June 27, 2009 @ Noon

By: Jan Norris

Jan Norris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:11:29 +0000

Please, Keefer– don’t give him any ideas!! It’s embarassing enough to ride with him now looking like an alien bumblebee with a beard. Heaven forbid he should glow, too. The aforementioned drunk (shouldn’t it be drunken??) drivers, plowing into him, would beg to be hauled off to jail fearing vaporization or being stung with alien bee juice.

By: Charles Keefer

Charles Keefer — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:10:10 +0000

Mr. Steinhoff, Sir.

I know that because I am conversant with the laws of the state as it concerns vehicular travel.

I was once stopped for having flashing white lights on my motorcycle. Did you know they are reserved for tow trucks.

There are three colors you can manifest on Florida’s roads. Red for stoplights. White for headlights, and orange for turn signals.

The West Palm Beach cops will let you get away with green for accent lights, but the Florida Highway Patrol will not.

Your incredibly equipped bicycle conforms. And I have no worries that you’ll be caught riding it drunk.

But, golly, if you had a better generator and visited the shop I take my motorcycle to, I would worry.

By: George P

George P — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:09:56 +0000

I once borrowed a beach cruiser that had a beer holder on the handlebars for a half-mile ride to a fest at Bryant Park. Someone there warned me I could get hassled for having an open container of beer and/or be checked for DUI. I did NOT get a visit from the cops before returning the bike.

Years ago someone noted there’d been a lot of late-night bike accidents. Turns out the cyclists were folks who’d lost their driving licenses and were on the way home from the bars.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:48:14 +0000

I’m not so much concerned with the laws of man as the laws of physics.

I’d much rather have a drunk cyclist plow into the side of my car than a drunk behind the wheel of an SUV.

—Matt

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:38:13 +0000

Mr. Keefer, Sir,

Dare I ask how you know that?

By: Charles Keefer

Charles Keefer — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:32:29 +0000

Just FYI. They can arrest you for DUI on a bicycle.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:43:14 +0000

The Brass Ring Pub is exactly where Google says it is located. The reason they specified the Northlake location is so as not to confuse it with the Brass Ring Pub way out west on Okeechobee.

As for safety, I’d much rather someone be drunk on a bicycle than drunk driving a car.

—Matt