>alle passagiers én bestuurder zijn ~~dronken~~ nuchter
Now this would actually be news
How are bierfietsen a thing if you’re not allowed to be drunk on them? Isn’t the single point of such bikes to drink beer? AFAIK you’re not allowed to have any open alcohol containers in a vehicle, so even if the driver wouldn’t be drinking (and that’s already IF, because who’d not drink on such a bike?), it would already be illegal.
Police: “spreekt voor zich dat de bestuurder BOB is”. Yeah right, who’s gonna want to be BOB during a bachelor party?
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Those damned cyclists always breaking the law
I still believe the legal theory about only the guy behind the wheel having to be sober is a bit iffy. The drunk people still have the power to stop pushing the pedals and making the entire thing stop, maybe in the middle of a busy intersection. And they will because that’s funny if you’re drunk. For me, a person that has the power to make the vehicle not go is also considered one of the drivers.
It’d be like making a drunk guy operate the gas pedal of a car and a sober guy the other pedals and the steering wheel. Is that really legal or are we just pretending it is?
> “Ook als je dronken op een gewone fiets rijdt, moet je je autorijbewijs inleveren”, verduidelijkt Willem Migom van de Antwerpse politie.
Didn’t this rule get abolished a while ago?
Ik zit geregeld op het terras van een café recht over het Steenplein (Pardaf) waar die idioten meestal starten. Natuurlijk beginnen die altijd tegen 17-18u wanneer de kaaien al goed vol staan. Die zetten zich er tussen en peddelen dan aan 15 per uur voort. Voor mijn part mogen ze het verbieden in t stad.
Niks tegen bierfietsen, ooit een heel leuke ervaring mee gehad op boerenwegels in de kempen (geen auto tegengekomen) maar in t stad, nee.
I think I saw these guys driving through my one way street in the wrong direction.
I remember my first year of college I was biking to a lecture on the kaaien in Antwerp in the afternoon and I had to cross the road. I saw a bierfiets on the road approaching the zebrapad and it was filled with a fraternity group of maybe 15 people. The driver shouted that they could not brake and to please wait before crossing so I let them pass. A bunch of them screamed thank you and one of the guys passed me a beer. Then they started shouting “CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!” so naturally I obliged and they proceeded to applaud me. Not gonna lie, that was definitely the most epic adje I’ve ever done. Funny thing is that car traffic is naturally pretty bad on the kaaien but there was literally a line of 10 cars behind the bierfiets unable to pass them hahaha
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Amazing bierfietsen still exist in 2021
>alle passagiers én bestuurder zijn ~~dronken~~ nuchter
Now this would actually be news
How are bierfietsen a thing if you’re not allowed to be drunk on them? Isn’t the single point of such bikes to drink beer? AFAIK you’re not allowed to have any open alcohol containers in a vehicle, so even if the driver wouldn’t be drinking (and that’s already IF, because who’d not drink on such a bike?), it would already be illegal.
Police: “spreekt voor zich dat de bestuurder BOB is”. Yeah right, who’s gonna want to be BOB during a bachelor party?
Surprised_pickachu.jpg
Those damned cyclists always breaking the law
I still believe the legal theory about only the guy behind the wheel having to be sober is a bit iffy. The drunk people still have the power to stop pushing the pedals and making the entire thing stop, maybe in the middle of a busy intersection. And they will because that’s funny if you’re drunk. For me, a person that has the power to make the vehicle not go is also considered one of the drivers.
It’d be like making a drunk guy operate the gas pedal of a car and a sober guy the other pedals and the steering wheel. Is that really legal or are we just pretending it is?
> “Ook als je dronken op een gewone fiets rijdt, moet je je autorijbewijs inleveren”, verduidelijkt Willem Migom van de Antwerpse politie.
Didn’t this rule get abolished a while ago?
Ik zit geregeld op het terras van een café recht over het Steenplein (Pardaf) waar die idioten meestal starten. Natuurlijk beginnen die altijd tegen 17-18u wanneer de kaaien al goed vol staan. Die zetten zich er tussen en peddelen dan aan 15 per uur voort. Voor mijn part mogen ze het verbieden in t stad.
Niks tegen bierfietsen, ooit een heel leuke ervaring mee gehad op boerenwegels in de kempen (geen auto tegengekomen) maar in t stad, nee.
I think I saw these guys driving through my one way street in the wrong direction.
I remember my first year of college I was biking to a lecture on the kaaien in Antwerp in the afternoon and I had to cross the road. I saw a bierfiets on the road approaching the zebrapad and it was filled with a fraternity group of maybe 15 people. The driver shouted that they could not brake and to please wait before crossing so I let them pass. A bunch of them screamed thank you and one of the guys passed me a beer. Then they started shouting “CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!” so naturally I obliged and they proceeded to applaud me. Not gonna lie, that was definitely the most epic adje I’ve ever done. Funny thing is that car traffic is naturally pretty bad on the kaaien but there was literally a line of 10 cars behind the bierfiets unable to pass them hahaha