AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) – Although famous for a love of bicycles as the city’s preferred transport, Amsterdam officials are starting to draw the line at a popular “beer bike.”

The bike, which can seat at least 10 people around a central “bar” as they pedal through the city center, is a frequent sight in the Dutch capital and is said to be popular with stag and hen (bachelor and bachelorette) parties. A non-drinker steers the bike.

But two accidents involving the bikes since the start of April has prompted the city councilor responsible for transport, Hans Gerson, to investigate how many bikes there are and whether they pose a problem.

“This beer bike is completely legal, but he (Gerson) is not very enthusiastic about this idea of people drinking while being amongst traffic,” a spokeswoman said.

But she downplayed the possibility of a ban, stressing the alderman is looking into various options.

Ard Karsten, owner of beerbike.co.uk which rents bikes to tourists, said he was open to talks with the council, adding his company only rents a beer bike out with a driver and has never been involved in an accident.

A compromise could involve the council obligating all firms to supply a driver with the bike, he said.

“We’re not out on the street en masse and it’s simply controllable. It is about fun and teambuilding,” Karsten said. “We have a very beautiful route and people simply enjoy it, but some people ruin it for others.”

A spokesman for the Amsterdam city center district, Ton Boon, said the bike was already banned in the red light district and welcomed Gerson’s inquiry. “It causes a lot of nuisance.”

Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool had reported earlier this week an accident last weekend resulted in various injures, while three women were injured two weeks ago.

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It is reported that the Sichuan Tourism Administration has made the first batch of earthquake sites public.And the authority appealed to the tourists from home and abroad comply with the arrangement and supervision of the tour guides and respect the people’s feelings in the stricken areas.

According to the authority the first batch of sites that will be made public are: Dujiang Weir, Qingcheng Mountain, Cuiyue Lake (in Dujiang Yan City), Hongkou, Bailu Town (including Bailu Primary School, Bailu Old Street, Zhongfa Bridge, Lingbao Monastery), Xiaoyudong Bridge, Qingchuan Eastern Bayou, The Works of Oriental Turbine Co.Ltd.in Hanwang Town, Xuankou Middle School in Yingxiu Town, Baihua Bridge, the Giant Rock in Yingxiu Town, the Victims’ memorial park, the site of earthquake focus in Niumian Gou Valley,fracture surface pits, quake site in Luobuzai Village etc.

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My ride to RawHyde Adventures’ off-road motorcycle school in Castaic is typically heroic: daring and expert lane splitting, fistfuls of throttle and clutch, spectacular knee-dragging cornering. I even pop a wheelie or two. My riding skills astound me.

So imagine my surprise when, having left the asphalt to turn into the ranch’s gravel driveway and going all of about 10 feet, I fall off my borrowed BMW F800GS in a spray of loose rock and liberated motorcycle parts . . . Hey, whoa, what the . . . ker-RASSHH! Pain and humiliation mingle inside my helmet. I have not dropped a bike ever, and yet here I am, resting gently on my face. The marquee lights around my motorcycle-riding ego suddenly go dim. The squirrels laugh. Gravel tastes funny.

So begins my five-day education in off-road riding. A half-mile up the hill, Jim Hyde, the founder and owner of RawHyde, is waiting for me under a canopy of camo netting, near a cluster of the school’s BMW motorcycles. Hyde — a fit, barrel-chested 52-year-old with a red face and a white goatee — is sympathetic, sort of. At least he doesn’t laugh.

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