Breathalyser bike lock intended to prevent drunk cycling

If you have £200 to spend on a lock, you clearly love your bicycle enough to spend that money and you aren't going to be riding drunk anyway surely?

Strictly speaking here in the Netherlands cycling drunk is also forbidden, but in practise it's highly recommended because being drunk on the bike is 1000 times less dangerous than drunk driving.
Also, if you're by bike you make sure you don't get so drunk that you fall over. So riding your bike to the bar puts some kind of upper limit on the amount of beers.

Just think how much booze you could get from Lidl's, for £200, instead!

I've bought one of those. I'm a drunken narcissist with a split personality, so it texts me when I'm pissed and I try to talk myself out of climbing back onto our tandem.

Don't let Trek see this....

This must surely get a nomination for the Useless Product Of The Year award (UPOTY)

Quote:

However, unlike driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, however, there is no set threshold beyond which an offence is committed.

So how is this lock calibrated? What threshold will be set if the law says there isn't a threshold? And, how come someone can kickstart something like this and yet cars and other motor vehicles still don't have it as standard???

(Secondly, totally agree with other posters who have commented on this, but going by where most people lock their locks, it really will look like you are so drunk that you copped off with your bicycle... Very Flann O'Brien, or is that the point of this lock? If you are drunk enough not to be embarrassed blowing into the lock, then you are WAAY too drunk to be riding the bike).

Or put the £200 towards a folding bicycle and catch a cab home, or call the concerned friend to come and collect you!

Love to see how this would go down in the Netherlands!

Easy - if you're too drunk to unlock the bike just take the car instead.

Anyone that would spend that much for a poor quality lock would likely buy a second normal lock to take with them for times they are going drinking. This technology works in cars because you always have to use it, it's not optional.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding it, but it does seem awfully inconvenient to have to contact a friend so they can come out and blow into the lock for you.

Why would you put a lock on your bike and go drinking when the lock is so useless, the only person that it keeps from taking your bike is you. And only then if you don't want to break it to get to your bike and only then because it's really expensive.

Talk about problems that don't need solving.

If you are thinking of buying this, then can I suggest that you phone a friend who can “convince you with the power of common sense" to just not.

Absolute waste of time, though it would have saved me a suit a few years back...

Also note that it's £200 for a lock which doesn't seem to even get Silver-rated...

Instructions for use: Lie down on pavement, fiddle with lock until it's facing your face, blow.

wait, the sensor is on the lock itself? Yeah, that's nice and easy to use...