I often find myself riding with a group more interested in drinking (not just a few) while riding. I choose not to be drunk for professional, safety, and personal reasons. However, I am not entirely closed to the idea, but I would rather not ride alone, and sometimes its my only choice. Ride with the drunkards or not ride at all. I know the law, but it seems its rarely enforced and most just look the other way. Are there any LEO's who would like to comment, or anyone with personal experiences with alcohol and snowmobiles?
Drinking and riding? Your opinions please, while we wait for snow.
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alcohol+snowmobiles+dark=bad deal. just think of it this way. how safe is it to go get drunk and drive your car. now, think of riding a snowmobile and add alcohol. not a good plan. if you do stupid crap when you drive your car drunk, just think of the stupid stuff you will do on your sled.
Life is full of happy mediums. The last post is correct, alcohol does not improve your ability to reason. However it can be pleasent to share a beer with good friends at the top of a mountain were no one else is. It is less pleasent to retrive some drunk from all the places he shouldn't have gone. And then there's the drive home. My happy medium is never more than 4 beers per person, ( all day ride), none with the kids, take food, and every time I can, I stay overnight with my camper so no drive home. I also pick my riding partners, stay open to new people, but have one or two of the reliables along. Then drop that person for the next ride if they are that way. The bars are open for drunks.
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SledsWest
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Do you really expect that somebody on here is going to justify you knocking back the brews while riding? I think you know the answer....hell, even my 4 year old knows the answer to that question. Come on man, for yourself and for the rest of us.....DON'T DRINK AND RIDE, PERIOD! I'm so tired of hearing about an alcohol related crash that killed the innocent person while the drunk walks away from it and comes up with some **** and bull story about how its not his fault, its the bar tender's fault, blah blah blah. If you have to drink, stay home. I don't want drunks on the mountain riding around me and my buddies and I sure as hell don't want them out on the road at the end of the day!!
Some of the people I used to work with would set up shift rides, we would get 10-12 people from the shift and do a 4 hour ride. We would all stop half way threw the ride to talk and enjoy the outdoors, 8-10 would have brought alcohol and start tipping them back when we stop. They wouldn't get full on drunk, but they had more then they should for drinking and sledding, after I seen it the first time I refused to take part in anymore shift rides, I prefer to ride by myself then be with the group that killed somebody because of some retards that can't hold off drinking for a few hours.
If you want a few drinks, do it after the ride when your home or in a hotel or where ever you are staying for the night. Are some people that retarded that it is okay to drink and ride but not okay to drink and drive? If you go out for a ride and you want to bring something to drink, there are so many other non alcoholic alternatives that there is no excuse for drinking and riding.
If you want a few drinks, do it after the ride when your home or in a hotel or where ever you are staying for the night. Are some people that retarded that it is okay to drink and ride but not okay to drink and drive? If you go out for a ride and you want to bring something to drink, there are so many other non alcoholic alternatives that there is no excuse for drinking and riding.
Do you really expect that somebody on here is going to justify you knocking back the brews while riding? I think you know the answer....hell, even my 4 year old knows the answer to that question. Come on man, for yourself and for the rest of us.....DON'T DRINK AND RIDE, PERIOD! I'm so tired of hearing about an alcohol related crash that killed the innocent person while the drunk walks away from it and comes up with some **** and bull story about how its not his fault, its the bar tender's fault, blah blah blah. If you have to drink, stay home. I don't want drunks on the mountain riding around me and my buddies and I sure as hell don't want them out on the road at the end of the day!!
I don't think he is looking for justification, just some honest common sense opinions. The simple answer is the politically correct one, however what happened to personal responcibility along with personal freedom? No one will try and make the case that legal limits should be exceeded.
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jafraune
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To be honest...I really dont know how people do it. When Im riding I like to be on top of my game, quick, swift, and COORDINATED. Drinking while you sled makes me sluggish, dumb, and just stupid. The beer drinking for me starts when I get back for the day and sleds parked. I guess for me the thrill of riding is enough of a "good feeling"...no alcohol for me...IMO
Where is the pop corn??
Things happen way too quick sober,even faster boozed.That's why the only thing you'll see me drinking while riding will be Gatorade,soda or water.
I do enjoy some cold
after it's all over for the day.
.That's why the only thing you'll see me drinking while riding will be Gatorade,soda or water.I do enjoy some cold
after it's all over for the day.On a nice sunny relaxed blue bird day if we are just going to be boondocking around the meadows and the flats. I'll pack a 6er in the back of the cat (it's the best cooler ever!), and maybe some food to (really looking forward to tri tip in the muff pot!) No gonna get **** face'd but I'll toss a couple around to my buddies when we stop and take a break.
If it's a powday, or if we are going to do some heavy riding. Ya we pack light, usually just my camel back w/water and a cliff bar or 2.
If it's a powday, or if we are going to do some heavy riding. Ya we pack light, usually just my camel back w/water and a cliff bar or 2.
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I have no problem with somebody wanting to stop, and have a beer. I do it, and it taste's much better up in the mountains. I'm not getting drunk, just like the taste of a cold beer after I'm tired, and need a break.
If you don't like it, don't do it. If you enjoy it, do it. It's not against the law as long as your not legally drunk.
Espically in UT, our beer don't get you any more drunk than a Pepsi.
If you don't like it, don't do it. If you enjoy it, do it. It's not against the law as long as your not legally drunk.
Espically in UT, our beer don't get you any more drunk than a Pepsi.
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SledsWest
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I hope you're right. But I've seen way too many drunk people riding ATV's or snowmobiles to believe that you're 100% right. I've seen people that think its OK to be nearly fall down drunk and ride an ATV at the sand dunes as long as they don't get out of 1st gear. And I know its a VERY COMMON thing.
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SledsWest
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funny, how this thread comes back every year...after year....after year....I'm glad this year I live across the road from you so it's easier to stager home from a ride....let's make sure we clean the truck out more often, we can get deposits on those bottles I think....pays for the gas....
No kidding Yammadog.
This is a yearly thread where someone is gonna get their pee-pee stepped on and hair is gonna fly.
Pretty self explanatory, IMO.
This is a yearly thread where someone is gonna get their pee-pee stepped on and hair is gonna fly.
Pretty self explanatory, IMO.
I have a rule for sledding and for drinking too. If we are going to sled let's get with it 100% and the same goes for drinking as let's hit it 100%. I don't ever like to do either halfway and I never mix the two !!! >>>>.
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