Recent content by Hangdog98

Seriously..."who really cares what they eat"... seriously? The cycling world cares what sunglasses they wear, what chain lube they use, what crotch cream they rub into their nether regions and WHAT THEY EAT. What they do is big news, that's what drives the professional cycling machine. The...

A common species of reductio ad absurdum is proof by contradiction where a proposition is proven true by proving anecdotally that it is impossible for it to be false. As an example; "Why 20%, why not 30%, 40% or 5%? If 100% plant food is unbalanced, how do you explain the fact that so many...

I used the Hitlerum fallacy to parody the reductio ad absurdum argument put forward by Polyarmour. Ipso facto, you lose, whoever you are.:rolleyes:

Yes China, the cycling powerhouse. Listen to them, NOT! Hitler was a vegetarian but not a cyclist. Alberto Contador is a steak eater and the finest cyclist on earth. Armstrong, also a steak eater, like Hinault and Merckx, both prolific steak eaters. Who do you believe? Hitler or...

I would argue that 100% of one particular food group is unbalanced. It's a bit like giving 80% power to one crank as you ride to the top of a mountain, yes it's unbalanced and will hurt your performance over the course of the vegan's mountain climb. 80% vegetable and 20% animal protein is...

You're kidding right? The mass of the legs must be moved no matter the counterweight. I'm not going to give you a physics lesson but you even fail to take gravity into account. The weight of the legs make as much difference to the equation as the weight of the wheels and every other moving...

One thing to remember (or learn) is that counter-steering or leaning, hanging off, dropping the knee etc etc does not make the bike turn. These actions make the bike lean over one way or the other. The steering, or more correctly 'change in direction' is caused by the tires being off the center...

The legs are a reciprocating lever in the cycling machine, i.e. they must lift themselves up as well as push the pedals down. The heavier the legs, the more energy required to lift them up before each power stroke. As the cadence increases, the energy required to lift them goes up exponentially...

Nope, I've got retirement covered (about 15 years early), so I'll have my man-servant Javier buying the groceries provided I survive the great global financial crisis of 2055. As far as "tangible effect" goes, I have no way of knowing without using my clone (Hangdog99) in a double blind, peer...

Nope, no contradiction there. This is our natural habitat. This is how we have evolved. As a Darwinist, I believe that what we're doing right now, all of us, is all part of the natural evolutionary process. We do this alongside the animals and plants. We're not from Mars or planted here some...

Q. Are you a vegetarian? A. No, I'm a Texan How's that, does that fit in with your 'Rules of the Internet' philosophy? Vegetarianism is like Global Warming. Only those who agree may contribute, that way you can call it a consensus.

Here's the thing about natural habitat. It doesn't matter what buildings or transport arrangements we currently have, the point is that we have made them, evolved this way, come to this by natural means. This is how we roll in our natural habitat at this particular moment. We're not above or...

Errr, no. The point is to stay healthier for longer by assisting the natural processes of human growth hormone production as it slows down with age. HGH is pretty much the anti-aging hormone for us soon-to-be-oldies. I cycle for fitness, I compete for motivation to stay fit and I take simple...

Has it been said already in this thread that Adolf Hitler was a vegatarian and he was quite healthy. I'm not so sure if he rode a bicycle but he sure did have a pretty girlfriend and a terrific job. Did I just invoke Godwin's law with a reductio ad hitlerum jibe? oops :o

I'm 48 and a junior by comparison, and I use a mix of L-Arginine and L-Ornithine before training and before I go to bed. I'm told, that in the absence of other dominant amino acids, this combo can cross the blood brain barrier and stimulate the production of human growth hormone. Mixing it with...