The magic ingredient that makes cycling home drunk surprisingly safe (I carry various scars documenting the limitations of that safety) is that it usually happe

The magic ingredient that makes cycling home drunk surprisingly safe (I carry various scars documenting the limitations of that safety) is that it usually happens at night during a time of very low traffic intensity. Be very, very careful about applying drunk cycling confidence earned in the night to the odd daytime drinking occasion. Far too many things happening at the same time to keep aware of, feels like running out of RAM. Low traffic intensity is a two-sided sword, it can lead to speeding and to inattentiveness. But those downsides are much less pronounced for cycling than for driving: for speed it's obvious (yet all of my scars from cycling drunk are purely from liking to go fast, nobody else involved), but the difference in terms of inattentiveness is even more pronounced: sitting out in the wind on a two-wheeler that almost but not quite balances itself is so much different from sitting in a comfy chair surrounded by entertainment electronics peeking out at the world through small windows and a set of mirrors that even the sober rarely use to is full potential.