Its a specialized Toupe. I probably rode over some ants on my way to the bike shop and the truck that delivered it, the dude probably ate a burger for lunch so then technically Im not a vegan perhaps.. 
How has a high carb, low fat vegan diet helped me performance wise? Great question.
* Weight loss for sure. No secret why the top riders eliminate or cut down their animal product foods like milk, eggs, dairy etc to drop the blubber and no secret that Sumo wrestlers laugh at the idea of being a vegan. They need all the body blubber they can store. Fair enough. So Im riding lighter with less training, eating more food than ever in my life and putting out better times on the climbs Ive been riding since 97. 2009 I set my best times up the Adelaide climbs. You got books like 'skinny *****' and 'skinny *******'. You guess what diet they are promoting? Skinny cyclists do better, you just dont want to starve and become a scrawny cyclist..that aint no fun. You see a lot of anorexics come over to a vegan diet(cos it keeps you lighter naturally) and just starve more and go off the deep end. Then they end up in hospital and the medical journals get written and the media forgets to mention the 'vegan' actually was an anorexic that was 6ft tall and 48kg..doesnt matter what diet you eat, you starve, your in trouble.
Hematocrit and hemoglobin- They go up when carb intake goes up and fat intake goes down. Here are some recent blood tests. They start 5mins in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaFYFm2nP7E Your blood gets thinner the less fat/protein you eat. Its easier to cut the fat and protein way back as a vegan.
*Vo2 max - Mine went from 67 to 74 measured at the same bodyweight. Same lab protocol. Its not a common concept in sports nutrition to eliminate dairy products when Nestle and co sponsor most sports institutes..but for the savvy riders, they read between the lines and join the dots. Dairy's main protein is casein. Casein is used in wood glue. Glued lungs anyone?
*Recovery -When you dont have a steak digesting for a week in your stomach/colon, then you have a lot more room for carbs. Nobody runs out of protein or fat during training/racing but even Contador has ran out of carbs and bonked from his glycogen tank running empty. Eating animal products just hinders carb uptake, transfer and delivery to the cells as stomach digestion is compromised when we consume foods with zero fiber. (animal products have zero fiber). My biggest week as a carnivore was 1000km, now its 1530km. My biggest day was 257 and now its 515km solo. Biggest year was 12 445 and now its 30 020km. Ive cycled over 170 000km as a vegan..Im convinced.
*Testosterone - Why pay the doctor for scrotum patches when you can raise yours naturally and never get busted? Here is a study confirming my hippy rant.
"The study measured testosterone levels in 696
Oxford University men. Of the study participants,
233 were vegan (ate no animal products) and 237
were vegetarian (ate milk and dairy products).
The remaining 237 subjects were men who ate meat
on most days of the week...vegans had higher
testosterone levels than vegetarians and meat
eaters."
British Journal of Cancer, 83(1), July 2000
*You get more chicks- anyone seen the ratio of vegan chicks to vegan guys? You do the math.And hey, no fak'n and sneak'n bacon guys, cos real chicks realise real lies.
See this guy in the pic, he went vegan on friday morning and by friday night..look what happend.
How has a high carb, low fat vegan diet helped me performance wise? Great question.
* Weight loss for sure. No secret why the top riders eliminate or cut down their animal product foods like milk, eggs, dairy etc to drop the blubber and no secret that Sumo wrestlers laugh at the idea of being a vegan. They need all the body blubber they can store. Fair enough. So Im riding lighter with less training, eating more food than ever in my life and putting out better times on the climbs Ive been riding since 97. 2009 I set my best times up the Adelaide climbs. You got books like 'skinny *****' and 'skinny *******'. You guess what diet they are promoting? Skinny cyclists do better, you just dont want to starve and become a scrawny cyclist..that aint no fun. You see a lot of anorexics come over to a vegan diet(cos it keeps you lighter naturally) and just starve more and go off the deep end. Then they end up in hospital and the medical journals get written and the media forgets to mention the 'vegan' actually was an anorexic that was 6ft tall and 48kg..doesnt matter what diet you eat, you starve, your in trouble.
Hematocrit and hemoglobin- They go up when carb intake goes up and fat intake goes down. Here are some recent blood tests. They start 5mins in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaFYFm2nP7E Your blood gets thinner the less fat/protein you eat. Its easier to cut the fat and protein way back as a vegan.
*Vo2 max - Mine went from 67 to 74 measured at the same bodyweight. Same lab protocol. Its not a common concept in sports nutrition to eliminate dairy products when Nestle and co sponsor most sports institutes..but for the savvy riders, they read between the lines and join the dots. Dairy's main protein is casein. Casein is used in wood glue. Glued lungs anyone?
*Recovery -When you dont have a steak digesting for a week in your stomach/colon, then you have a lot more room for carbs. Nobody runs out of protein or fat during training/racing but even Contador has ran out of carbs and bonked from his glycogen tank running empty. Eating animal products just hinders carb uptake, transfer and delivery to the cells as stomach digestion is compromised when we consume foods with zero fiber. (animal products have zero fiber). My biggest week as a carnivore was 1000km, now its 1530km. My biggest day was 257 and now its 515km solo. Biggest year was 12 445 and now its 30 020km. Ive cycled over 170 000km as a vegan..Im convinced.
*Testosterone - Why pay the doctor for scrotum patches when you can raise yours naturally and never get busted? Here is a study confirming my hippy rant.
"The study measured testosterone levels in 696
Oxford University men. Of the study participants,
233 were vegan (ate no animal products) and 237
were vegetarian (ate milk and dairy products).
The remaining 237 subjects were men who ate meat
on most days of the week...vegans had higher
testosterone levels than vegetarians and meat
eaters."
British Journal of Cancer, 83(1), July 2000
*You get more chicks- anyone seen the ratio of vegan chicks to vegan guys? You do the math.And hey, no fak'n and sneak'n bacon guys, cos real chicks realise real lies.
