Tour de France

Post by **hate** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:58 pm

i've raced

and won

Post by **hate** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:00 am

btw, to enlighten you lay people

serious cycling is

30% physical

70% mental

carry on being ignorant

Post by **saturn** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:02 am

yeah right, I'll wait the day you're gonna cycle 4000 kilometers in 3 weeks over mountains on 70 percent mentality. With an average of 50 km/h.

Post by **hate** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:32 am

everyone of those riders have the fitness

that's why they are in the tour

the mental component decides the winner

Post by **Timbo** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:41 am

saturn wrote:Anyway, i'm looking forward to that young Michael Rasmussen from the Rabobank team.

He's not really that young, if you can call 31 old. Rasmussen comes from a mountain biking background, winning the world champs in 99.

Us mountain bikers are made of stronger stuff that those pansy roadies. :icon25:

Post by **-Replicant-** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:33 am

saturn wrote:Anyway, i'm looking forward to that young Michael Rasmussen from the Rabobank team. He's only 38 secs behind (after that marvelous escape two days ago where he gained 6+ minutes on Lance after 160 kilometers solo uphill).
The guy is so thin and he can follow Lance quite easily so far. i've heard he's totally obsessed about his weight. Shaves every hair off his body to minimize the drag and weight.

i, too, am very excited about him. And yes, he's an extreme weight weenie- he won't carry a bottle of water on an uphill climb, only on downhills. He won't drink on hard mountain climbs because of the extra weight he gains from water intake (crazy mofo, he probably sweats out a litre of water on a climb....must go into some crazy dehydration if he kept that up for long). And, as you pointed out, he shaves every hair he can find. The guy is absolutely nuts