Tyler Hamilton lowest cycling race weight was 130 lbs?

He isn’t 5’8”. He’s and inch or two shorter than me, and I’m 5’8”.

craptacular wrote:

He isn’t 5’8”. He’s and inch or two shorter than me, and I’m 5’8”.

^FAKE NEWS!!!! Both of you should be ashamed for lying. Everyone knows jamin is 5’2” at most!

Jamin, you need to settle this controversy ASAP! We need a YouTube video in which you verify your height for everyone. That’s the only way to get to the truth.

OMG, thank you for the laugh. "Chris Froome is NOT a good climber"??!!! Check this out at 9:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP7GsihbcQ and note that Mr Froome has no teammates with him.

Froome is a doper.

Dadfan wrote:

OMG, thank you for the laugh. "Chris Froome is NOT a good climber"??!!! Check this out at 9:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP7GsihbcQ

and note that Mr Froome has no teammates with him.

You are forgetting his invisible team mates. EPO, Corticosteroids, etc. probably a motor too.

Danny V wrote:

VanHoutte wrote:

Height to weight ratio doesnt mean jack. All about the power to weight ratio and that golden number is right around 6.2 - 6.5 w/kg.

But if you want a list of good climbers of the current peloton look at:

Nario Quintana

Romain Bardet

Warren Barguil

Mikel Landa

Wout Poels (kinda)

Esteban Chaves

Sergio Henao

Chris Froome is NOT a good climber in his own right- he has the best team that is extremely good at riding his threshold tempo.

Best Climber the US has right now:

Ian Boswell

Joe Dombrowski

I'd put my money on McNulty among the US guys. Hard to forget about Dombrowski at Baldy, though. Still rooting for him.

And of course Froome is a good climber, don't be ridiculous. He's just stressed out way more than normal right now due to his proceedings and likely isn't on the same sauce as normal.

Saying Froome is not a good climber is being ridiculous. There are very few guys that can drop Froome, and when on he routinely drops most of the other guys with many summit finish victories. Fortress Froome makes it hard for others to get away and put time into Froome if he isn't 100%, but when everybody is sitting in, the sky train makes it equally easy for Froome and his rivals for the first 1/2-3/4 of the climb. Froome still wins often from there. Quintana is the only guy I feel like I could say has definitively been a better climber over the past few years.

Leaving Richie Porte out of that list is a cardinal sin too. He has a (probably skills enhanced) case of terrible luck, but on point I think he is one of the top three or five climbers in the peloton. S. Yates right now too from what we are seeing, although he could turn out a one hit wonder.

Also, these might be the best climbers the US has right now...maybe....but you have Brandon McNulty coming up (not a climber, but could easily be a Dumoulin type and I think he already climbs close to the level of Dombrowski). More importantly, you're forgetting Sepp Kuss. He's the real US future in climbing. Powless seems to have some pretty damn good talent.

Correction: Professional runners, student-athletes, hobby joggers.

Not making a living from running or competing for a school? Then you are a hobby jogger. Stop being delusional with this "sub-elite" nonsense. Is that 37 year old perpetual bachelor down at the running store ever going to enter the pro ranks? Nope. He is just seriously pursuing his chosen hobby.

We would laugh our buns off if some short 30 year old guy at the local 24Hour Fitness Wednesday night hoops league earnestly referred to himself as a "sub-NBA" baller waiting to be discovered. Yet, we accept so many aging post-collegiates that can't get within 5-10 minutes of the Oly Trials marathon standard as "sub-elite" without recognizing the irony.

Hamilton is actually only 5'7 (and barely that). I've met him. Little bit of height exaggeration happening there.

Keep in mind, that was his absolute lowest weight (the razer as he aptly puts it), which he was maintaining for the summers' big races around 2001-2004. That level of fitness and low body fat is not sustainable for more than a few weeks at a time without incurring some kind of disaster.

Correct.

PhDoping wrote:

Hamilton is actually only 5'7 (and barely that). I've met him. Little bit of height exaggeration happening there.

Keep in mind, that was his absolute lowest weight (the razer as he aptly puts it), which he was maintaining for the summers' big races around 2001-2004. That level of fitness and low body fat is not sustainable for more than a few weeks at a time without incurring some kind of disaster.

I think the key here is 'maintaining for the summers' big races'. 130 lbs. was a starting weight with the knowledge that significant weight would be lost during the race. This guy is not 130 lbs. and 5' 8" (or 5' 7"):

Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:

Not making a living from running or competing for a school? Then you are a hobby jogger. Stop being delusional with this "sub-elite" nonsense. Is that 37 year old perpetual bachelor down at the running store ever going to enter the pro ranks? Nope. He is just seriously pursuing his chosen hobby.

Just to pick an example at random, there were 40 Americans who ran sub-3:40 for 1,500 last year. At a quick glance, maybe 8 of them were collegians. I guarantee the other 32 weren't all "making a living from running," but I wouldn't call a 3:39 1500 runner a "hobby jogger." Maybe you would, but then you'd be using the term in a way most other people don't.

Joe Jackson wrote:

PhDoping wrote:

Hamilton is actually only 5'7 (and barely that). I've met him. Little bit of height exaggeration happening there.

Keep in mind, that was his absolute lowest weight (the razer as he aptly puts it), which he was maintaining for the summers' big races around 2001-2004. That level of fitness and low body fat is not sustainable for more than a few weeks at a time without incurring some kind of disaster.

I think the key here is 'maintaining for the summers' big races'. 130 lbs. was a starting weight with the knowledge that significant weight would be lost during the race. This guy is not 130 lbs. and 5' 8" (or 5' 7"):

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6fYu4ybkntA/SZLTnehZX-I/AAAAAAAADJg/q0SWMPGS2HA/s1600/20.jpg

Look at that walking skeleton lol

He is scheduled to be the first subject of the new Kenyan show “ My 130 lb life.”

Check out this video- not suspicious at all. Dude goes from 300 to 600+ watts and his HR bares ticks up 5 bpm. I know these guys are pros but that is way to suspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18bpG1qW4aY

His time is 13 seconds slower up Ventoux then "doped to the gills" Lance Armstrong. TOTALLY believable.

http://www.chronoswatts.com/watts/21/

Joe Jackson wrote:

PhDoping wrote:

Hamilton is actually only 5'7 (and barely that). I've met him. Little bit of height exaggeration happening there.

Keep in mind, that was his absolute lowest weight (the razer as he aptly puts it), which he was maintaining for the summers' big races around 2001-2004. That level of fitness and low body fat is not sustainable for more than a few weeks at a time without incurring some kind of disaster.

I think the key here is 'maintaining for the summers' big races'. 130 lbs. was a starting weight with the knowledge that significant weight would be lost during the race. This guy is not 130 lbs. and 5' 8" (or 5' 7"):

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6fYu4ybkntA/SZLTnehZX-I/AAAAAAAADJg/q0SWMPGS2HA/s1600/20.jpg

This is exactly the picture I was going to link. No way he was 130 when he crashed out that day.

Also, these might be the best climbers the US has right now...maybe....but you have Brandon McNulty coming up (not a climber, but could easily be a Dumoulin type and I think he already climbs close to the level of Dombrowski). More importantly, you're forgetting Sepp Kuss. He's the real US future in climbing. Powless seems to have some pretty damn good talent.

HA. Tell me when any of them have a VAM like Dombro (1,553 m) at Snowbird (altitude adjusted to between 1,662 - 1,786m). Snowbird starts above 5,000ft- where Alp D'Huez finishes.

He also did 1,632 on Blady as well. Show me where any of the above can touch that. Hint: they can't- not yet at least; or any time soon.

That's better then Froome's 1,602 m from Ventoux in '13.

Source(s): Strava,

If Froome is SUCH a good climber- then why did he get worked over in the ITT at the 2017 WC by Dumoulin and this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNRYgKyZBAI

Hell- Tony Martin was within 20 seconds of Froomedog on an uphill TT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_UCI_Road_World_Championships_–_Men%27s_time_trial

And before you say he was tired from the Tour and Vuelta- remember that is the same Vuelta he had an AAF for TWICE the legal limit of salbutamol- though I think the level has been reduce to 14xx ng/ml.

How can you say McNulty is not a climber? Dude is an absolute monster in the TTs despite being light (6' 145-150ish) and I think he's proved at ToC he can climb alright. 4th on today's stage.

Kuss is 3.5 years older than McNulty and lives about 6000' higher than McNulty, which means he has less upside. Either way, McNulty, Kuss and Powless are all riding great at ToC, which is awesome to see. McNulty is clearly the class of the bunch, though.