Froomes upper arms

[Herbie]

Chris Froome has the thinnest upper arms I've ever seen....I know these guys have to be kinda featherlight but you could snap his upper arms like a twig....awesome performance on Ventoux today...amazing

 

[Milzy]

I almost went to post the exact same thing. Some of the cyclists are built like bulls then you get the Marco Pantani size.

 

[ASC1951]

The odd thing about Chris Froome is that he is the height of a bull but weighs about the same as Pantani. It's like watching a cranefly.

 

[Herbie]

I almost went to post the exact same thing. Some of the cyclists are built like bulls then you get the Marco Pantani size.

I know...its a weird thing...you expect all pro cyclists to be like jockeys...tiny midgets and weigh nowt but you get all sorts of builds

 

[buggi]

Arms are only a necessary evil. They are only required to stop your torso falling onto your handlebars. Any muscle or fat on them is completely unnecessary and weight you can you do without. .

 

[StuAff]

The climbers tend to be (relatively speaking) smaller and lighter. Nairo Quintana's 5ft 3 and 126 lb. Froome's 6ft 1 and 152 lb. Whereas I'm a couple of inches shorter than Froome, a few pounds heavier than Quintana, and a lot less powerful than either

 

[Doseone]

Check out this picture of Michael Rasmussen during the Tour (before the cheating @*%# got banned). He looks so thin.

 

[blade1889]

Bloody hell, he looks like an extra from Schindlers List

 

[ColinJ]

I am the same height as Froome and I was 2 kgs lighter than him when I finished university. At that time, my arms were so skinny that I could get a large-sized roll of Sellotape over a hand and push it all the way up to the armpit! These days, I can only get one two inches beyond the wrist.

Unfortunately, I didn't start cycling over the local hills until I had put on 35 kgs in weight!

 

[jim55]

a top level cyclist by and large is not a good look ,i think greipels look is better but isnt he more of a power guy as opposed to a true climber

 

[Fnaar]

Then there's the legs of that german freaky feller:

 

[Fnaar]

Maybe Froome is part of the advance party of an alien civilization:

 

[albion]

What is fascinating is that top motor bikers have similar physiques.

Again for a power weight ratio gain.

 

[Globalti]

Not only do the top riders have skinny arms, they also have very narrow shoulders, which must help with aerodynamics. There's definitely an ideal body type for different sports and different aspects of those sports.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

That got me curious, so I took my thigh and upper arm measurements: 23" and 13", respectively. Well, I guess my centre of gravity is lower than it used to be . My main problem these days is finding work trousers that fit the thighs without being too loose at the waist.

Not that I'm seriously comparing myself to Froome, I'm just a guy perilously close to middle-age, trying to do as much cycling as possible, to stave off inevitable mortality .