Vegan here. and mostly for the environmental repercussions of the meat industry and because meat is dirty as ****. Also dairy, I discovered after going vegan for a month, actually makes me feel like crap when I'm not addicted to it. It also increases the amount of lactic acid (the same stuff that working muscles create) in your body, causing you to feel muscle fatigue more quickly and makes you produce more mucus which decreases breathing capacity. Summary: DAIRY IS BAD FOR BIKING! MEAT IS DIRTY! BOTH ARE BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!
As far as bikers being Veg, I think as mentioned before it has to do with us being more socially conscious in general.
p.s.- Queerpunk, can I come kick it with you on the east coast some time? Gender****, anarchist, bikepunx for life!!

Veg 5 years
fixed 3 years

I yield for animals

I'm going to start a new club: FETA - Fixies Eating Tasty Animals. We'll sit around eating burgers and drinking thick microbrews.

There is no correlation between riding a bike with no gears and diet. Everyone has different ethics and dietary requirements (I greatly admire true veggies and vegans for their discipline; my body has other requirements). If the kids going vegan and drinking PBR think that's a fixie thing, they need to go to the Gap and buy a new identity.

Totally agree. Anyone who thinks drinking PBR is cool is no better than some twit who buys their clothing at Abercrombie & Fitch.

i eat meat, use drugs and alcohol in excess, and smoke indoors...


also: been drinking pabst for 7 years now... until just recently "good" beers have tasted like ass to me... just now starting to like a few of them... except mexican beers... they still taste like urine to me...

i actually used to suffer from chronic migraines. i used to get them on average about every other week and they would be pretty bad: impaired vision, vomiting, numbness in my extremities (usually affected one side of my body at a time. happened to my face once, and it was really weird. even one side of my tongue went numb.) anyway, after medication refused to work my dr. gave me a brochure listing possible causes of migraines. all sorts of things were on the list from chocolate to cigarette smoke and lack of sleep. one of them was processed meats, and that was the second or third thing i tried cutting out of my diet, and after about a month i noticed an improvement. i still get them every few months or so, but the amount of decrease really made me wonder what kind of additives and steroids are in the meat sold to market these days.

vegetarian since 1989. i live within one hour from the lone star brewery. mmm mmmmm good.

won't you be my neighbor?

i don't drink PBR because it's cool. i drink it for the following reasons

1) i'm a poor bastard who spends too much money on women and bikes (not in that order)
b) i actually really like the taste of the stuff
3) i have a PBR belt buckle from the 70's. what more reason do i need?

:D

sometimes I wake up not remembering how i got to bed or what i drank the night before. Then i sit up, as I sit up my hangover kicks in and I realize i must have been drinking $!tty beer. Schlitz will do that to me.

I'm vegetarian for 2 years, and drink plenty o Pabst!
Working on building a fixie right now.

Me too! The Pabst brewery in Milwaukee was the first and only brewery ive been to, sadly its ceased operation in the mid to late 90s, so i only have some exterior photos.

yeah - i called them a while back about a tour and they told me it had moved. isn't in in texas now, or something?

About 6 months ago I was smoking 2 packs a day, ate fastfood for every meal and was the fattest most out of shape 6'1'' 150lbs skinny kid you ever saw. I tried going veg a couple times before but failed after a week or so. This time I made sure I got a variety of good food and it wasnt so hard. So I quit smoking, went veg, then about 2 months later got myself a fixie. I always liked the idea of riding bikes but I didnt want to be one of the spandex tour de france type dudes. Then in Philly one night I saw this amazing bike chained up and I fell in love. No brakes, no gears, just...a bike. From then on I found Sheldon Browns site then eventually this site.

I do like PBR but I rarely drink. I am known to smoke the marijuanapot frequently though.

Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! Pick me! I wanna be in! Did any of you all hear about Barney the like 40lb lobster they found off the coast of Maine? PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and PETA (People for the Eating of Tasty Animals) had a bidding war on it. PETA1 wanted to set it free and PETA two wanted to buy it at market price and serve it to a lot of people. ******** thing died before either could buy it though. That was pretty funny.

Why ponder the idea that there may be some "correlation" between why an individual rides fixed and what they eat/drink. Is this just to further narrow the
perception of what a fixed gear riding individual's lifestyle should be? To me a fixie
is a pure and simple machine i use for transportation and recreation, my lifestyle
is much more complex and riding fixed is just a small piece of it. seems to me there's probably more fools out there downing PBR, jumping into there car/truck
and almost killing someone one on a fixie(veggie,vegan or carnivore). How's that for a "correlation"?

I like meat.

And I wasn't a big PBR fan until I found this place in the city with a special: 1 PBR + 1 shot of Jim Beam for like $3 or something!

Goodbye yuengling and empty wallet. Hello new favorite bar and... still empty wallet (but more drunk).

just hope the sugar in your PBR isn't bone-charred

I eat lots of meat, I actually can't get enough of it. I have meat cravings throughout the day... I guess that makes me an addict.

I drink scotch and whiskey and sometimes a mix of the two.

when on a budget though (which happens to be most of the time) I drink PBR because it tastes better to me than Miller Light.

I ride fixed... I'm pissed

I don't eat meat, but it's hard to ride around London without running down and killing the occasional pigeon. Hunter-non-gatherer.

Look, here's how that happened: one night in a "hipster" (note to older people: hipster, which once meant a person who is aware and appreciative of obscure subcultural art forms, films, musical acts, etc., has evolved to mean approximately what trendy in its noun form meant in the 1970s and 80s) bar, the alpha-hipster, for some reason or another, ordered a Pabst Blue Ribbon. The beta-hipster in the room noticed that, and ordered one for himself with the idea that being seen drinking the same beer that the alpha-hipster was drinking would convey the non-verbal signal to the girls in the room that he was socially connected to the alpha-hipster. The gamma-hipster, seeing this, immediately ordered a PBR to send the message to the girls that he was in the social loop with, if not the alpha-hipster, at least the beta-hipster. Three or four days later, every last one of them in the nation was drinking the stuff.

That's just how it works. One of these days, the alpha guy will order something else--a Zima, or some goddamned thing--and in a week they'll all be drinking it.

Oh! A Zima! It would be so ironic!

my wife is vegitarian, so i am most of the time. but when i'm not, it's no red meat for me. i just don't want to be involved in the politics of red meat, not to mention that blood taste doesn't do it for me. i can't resist chicken/turkey tho... especially a good shawerma!
as for the beer issue... i pretty much drink hoegaarden, heffeweissen, or black velvets (cider and guiness, poured like a black and tan).

vegetarian, straight-edge. I do it for resource effiency and I dont drink because it never has appealed to me and I hate what has done and does do to my friends and family.
I dont know how this ties in with riding fixed gear! :)