A colleague thinks you can lose your driving licence in the UK if you are found drunk in charge of a bicycle.
Not true.
As above; what if you don’t have a driving licence? Would mean people like me could drink-cycle with impunity. 😀
You don’t require a licence to ride a pedal cycle. You don’t have to give a sample of breath, blood or urine if you are stopped whilst on a pedal cycle. In fact the police have no powers to ask you to do so. Therefore, it’s entirely up to the judgment of the coppers as to how fit/unfit you are to ride your bike. As they cannot obtain proof that you have been drinking, which they’d need in order to charge you for being over the limit, then all they can do you for is drunk in charge, or drunken disorderly something like that, for which all they need is for you to fail a sobriety test ie walk in straight line etc.
I think the actual charge is ‘in charge of a pedal cycle whilst unfit through drink or drugs’ type thing. similar to being in charge of a horse etc.
Along those lines anyway.