I wish the viewers could see this you or experience you reversing down your
30% driveway with bugs on the back of her Jeep and not even trying not even trying man I have
a vlog I can't remember which one it was but I had a bowl of oatmeal up here and as I'm sliding
around I'm looking back in the bowl of oatmeal slides and I catch it with one hand while I'm
going down it's official the vegan cyclist is actually a Jedi Master Mark Melancon semester
good morning welcome to today's video welcome back to Yosemite Valley today we're doing about
a three hour ride heading up to an amazing view point called Lacey a point Lacey a point please
yeah Glacier glacier glacier Basia glacier there bud are know for being schooled in
English by Americans as me by treating you bro it's good it uh I I would recommend a bike fit
to everyone I wouldn't have thought that it would make a difference and I just eyeballed everything
and I said before he did it I was like dude I feel pretty good I feel like my fit is spot-on
ignorance is bliss yeah so they're put into perspective how long these climbs are we've
been climbing for an hour pushing on slightly and we're only halfway up this time it makes
like stell vo seem like nothing it's ridiculous perfectly smooth roads no potholes a little bit
of traffic but this is paradise how nice is it riding without bags on your bike just like you
go pretty much double the speed double makes you feel the breeze and it just gives you that
Morales just makes little difference yeah so I don't know the cameras gonna capture it but
there's you can see way down there this little tiny road that's the road you guys came in on
God gets you into the valley and then you come up to the top clog your Valley that mate yeah
Bella knows you kind of just got a little snippet of it that fir'd that turn where you come around
and you've been riding in just whatever trees the views and then this view that you get like
how amazing right yeah look at tourists there in the other I know that's a tourist trap dude
right there so it was a two hour climb you're probably agree it was worth it how often you
come here a lot dude honestly it's been kind of crazy you know backyard yeah the Internet's good
enough yeah just have a desk right here I've done I've gone up here I think four times this year so
I mean that's that's a lot so far I'll probably come up here a couple more times in the year yeah
but for someone who comes up here once in their lifetime and I think this is my tenth time being
up here but it doesn't ever get old know is that this is like we're talking about things that make
you feel small like this humble here right this makes you feel small there's just so much earth
in front of you everyone trying to get a flag picture they've got to do it in a sigma sport
said you wear a green a full green morphsuit and then you ride past and then you edit out
like a new green screen afterwards yeah except part of your leg takes out part of your bike
no you you take multiple photos so I think we got about an hour of sending now pretty much and then
back the toilers [ __ ] out for the rest of the day you some good food tomorrow we are driving
toward San Francisco I think we're gonna hit up a bike race do some filming there Lawrence my race
it get permission then a night ride back to San Jose and then back to San Francisco again gonna
Gate Bridge all that stuff and you stopped at a place like this what vegan snacks do you bike
I guess I would look for kind bars there's some of my kind and nut bars that are half dark chocolate
instead of milk chocolate which is vegan did you see stuff like veggie sandwich cheese
yeah I know I would never rock a sandwich from here but most of the time I'm coming I'm coming
prepared you know anything very rarely would I stop and get food other than just like a drink
or a Red Bull or something yeah that's that's kind of my like Red Bull is like my Oasis like
I can't wait to get a nice cold Red Bull which they don't have one here so I'm kind of really
healthy ruins arrived yeah 99% healthy I mean like my life in moderation yeah there's got to be that
one percent that's filled by Red Bull I think we're gonna head down to the valley and maybe
end all right there Kevin doing elem smashed who is mr. beer man it was amazing thank you
you know what was so good about today I Drive no we didn't have to run on that just first you drove
us back that's very true no I I'm going and just saying it's doing my thing to be honest I just
I was just the state so I'm just gonna wake up just a little edge some wood sitting on her lips
dude this is another amazing smelling meal thank you so much ah chicken pot pie yeah so how long
have you been baking for me I went vegan we send me the date everyone knows like they're
vegan date I'm vegan anniversary but I I don't I don't know but probably five years I'm probably
just over five years yeah I'm gonna get like philosophical with this answer you make you make
decisions based on your entire life experience so you know there's this big thing between like
free will and determinism and I don't know the answer to that but I know that it's it's not a
today I made this decision all by itself it is a it's a it's a thing that has been going on my
entire life and things that you would think would be a deterrent to going vegan I actually helped me
become vegan example I grew up with just meat and cheese that's it like no vegetables i D I ate my
first salad when I was 24 and so I think that like also kind of being fat when I was like a
kid and just eating out my whole life I know that some people would say well I grew up this way and
so that's why my eating habits are really bad but it having that experience of knowing when eating
crap was all the time sort of helped me create this this new future for me I really feel like
and this is I'm trying to be super careful with my son is that do I push him too hard on it I had
a purpose in effect right and so then then what made me go vegan might make him not cook like like
revolt against the plant-based lifestyle so it's a really true it's really hard because it has to
be sort of your decision and when we had our kid my first kid might happen we're making him out
of food and however you gonna look at it you put food in you your body breaks it down into parts
that are gonna become a baby you're making an arm out of McDonald's or are you making an arm out of
rocky and I don't know I kind of felt like that's probably a better way to do it is to eat a little
bit healthier we just sort of slowly went into like going from straight fast food all the time
to then like a health conscious meat-eater where we would eat you know grass-fed beef and locally
grown vegetables but it was you know the plate was steak potatoes veggies and then just over
time that steaks shrunk into fish into nothing but one of the things too that helped me that very few
people have the ability to do is to look at your food so we got we got chickens for their eggs this
is before I went vegan stop doing this hold on technical difficulties we got chickens for eggs
because we live kind of on like 2 or 3 acres now we got chickens and it was really cool it and even
looking back on it the relationship with those chickens felt very egan because we protected them
we fed them we had a good relationship with them they lived a great life and then they produced an
egg for us which they're gonna do anyways you know I mean like without humans or with humans
like they're producing an egg and so we'd have a chicken come and she would lay her egg and like
a little flowerpot outside of our door squawk and then leave and he was sorted very like symbiotic
relationship was really kind of cool but then we had we got a rooster rooster the chickens did
their thing have baby chickens I know a lot of people get weird about animal rights and a lot
of people just want to hear about veganism it's like performance and which now is what I wanted
to go that's why I was so interested is just eat more eat healthier be better on the bike
but holding this baby chick in my hand God it just sorta like changed things a little bit it
changed the way you perceive where your food comes from it puts a face on your food and for a lot of
people that doesn't matter I mean you liked it does you just don't care about that but for me
it kind of changed that whole perspective then you can't argue that increasing the amount of
plants you eat is a bad thing I guess it's just not as a horrible argument if you're like more
broccoli he's not gonna be better for me I'm not saying don't eat me but do need a carrot