the norm for all uk police forces in the future.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4997908/Police-FINE-mother-running-petrol.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4997908/Police-FINE-mother-running-petrol.html
Remember when fuel gauges first started to appear on bikes...? Most (Kawasaki being the worst) would go from "half full" to "fumes" once you'd passed the last petrol station for miles.
I vaguely remember reading a story years ago, in the daily rags, about one of the Household Division being nicked for being drunk while riding his horse in one of the London parks.
There are loads of offences that the rider can be done for.
The easist and quickest (when I served anyway) was dangerous or careless cycling, and if drunk (and is one of the few offences that a copper can give evidence of opinion) then the rider normally got arrested and thrown in the cells for the night with a day in court to look forward to.
Most cyclists know that they cannot be forced to provide a specimen of breath, but many do not realise the options that are available to the cops, and if you are from my generation, then section 15 of the ways and means act came in very handy (which in laymans terms means making it up as you go) but the above action usually worked.
You cannot get points on your licence simply because a drivers licence is not required to ride a bicycle, and a cycling offence is not transferable over to a driving offence.
A year or two back a chap in London was successfully prosecuted for 'furious riding', an obscure bit of legislation going back over a hundred years. If I remember correctly he ran into a pedestrian and killed her.