Did I hear the tv correctly when they said he does not carry any water on the major climbs?
What does this clown weigh and how tall is he? Is there a site that gives all of this info?
PT
definite spider monkey.
yahoo says 69kg, 1.75 cm
Or in English, 5’9’’ tall, about 152 pounds.
I believe it looks more like 125 pounds.
I don’t buy the 69kg thing! that’s way off!
I am 1m72 and 65kg right now (5’7’’ and a half and 143lbs).
So definitely shorter but his two legs don’t make one of my quads…
125lbs is a lot more likely. There is not way he is 69kg.
He usually tips the scale at home.
Does anyone know where Rasmussen keeps his skin pigment? He reminds me of Powder.
CBS says 5’9" 130 lb (59 kg)
http://cbs.sportsline.com/cycling/riders/page/400396
The Tour site says 60 Kg (132 lb)
He looked like a concentration camp survivor…skeleton with skin, when he took off his helmet after winning the stage a couple of days ago. But damn, he can climb.
Not sure if he does tip the scales.
CBS says 5’9" 130 lb (59 kg)
http://cbs.sportsline.com/cycling/riders/page/400396
The Tour site says 60 Kg (132 lb)
Based on wathing the TV (for years) he weighs slightly less than Chrismas Dinner.
leave us skinny dudes alone…
Erik
5’9" 144 lbs.
I remember reading that Rasmussen is obsessive about the weight of his bike and his body. He measures all the food he eats and adjusts it to keep his weight at a certain level.
He didnt get the nickname “chicken” for nothing.
back in his MTB days he used to train in SoCal for Haro, and used road shoes and glued rubber tread to the bottom - lighter and stiffer shoes back in the 90’s
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Did I hear the tv correctly when they said he does not carry any water on the major climbs?
What does this clown weigh and how tall is he? Is there a site that gives all of this info?
PT
He is 175 cm. His weight at the medical check before the Tour start was 58.5 kg.
He told in an interview to Danish television that his weight at the start of this years tour was 58.5 kg and he said he was 1.5 kg lighter than last year at the Tour start where his weight was 60 kg. He also said his current weight is at the limit of what is considered dangerous, and there’s a big risk of getting ill.
He’s the biggest weight weenie in the peloton (both with his body and equipment), he’s completely obsessive about it. He shaves his head every other day in the Tour to save weight. He weights all the food he eats. Normally he rides without a bike computer and heart rate monitor to save weight. The Colnago bikes for the Team was painted, but he demanded to get a bike without paint and have the Colnago logos put on as stickers instead of having it painted on, to save 200 grams paint. He had this frame specially made for him without the bottlecage bolts on the seat tube in order to save weight. He drives all team staff nuts, with his demands to the equipment and wants to adjust things 1mm back and forth / up and down all the time.
When he won the Polka dot jersey he removed a couple of grams from it with a pair of scissors.
When he was a mountainbiker he raced with road shoes with glued on rubber knobs because they were lighter than mountainbike shoes. The front hub on his mountainbike was a Dura-Ace road hub to save weight compared to an XTR front hub.
Here are the lightest riders in the Tour for comparison:
Lightest riders: Leonardo Piepoli (Ita, Saunier Duval): 52 kilogram; Ángel Vicioso (Spa, Liberty): 56 kilogram; Samuel Dumoulin (Fra, AG2R): 57 kilogram; Ludovic Turpin (Fra, AG2R): 57 kilogram.
Smallest riders: Samuel Dumoulin (Fra, AG2R): 1,58 meter; Salvatore Commesso (Ita, Lampre): 1,64 meter; Simons Gerrans (Aus, AG2R): 1,69 meter; Ángel Vicioso (Spa, Liberty): 1,69 meter.
He didnt get the nickname “chicken” for nothing.
The story about how he got the nickname Chicken is in this big interview with Rasmussen, maden during TdF 2004: http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/tour04/?id=features/interviews/michael_rasmussen04