I hear you. I'm a big frame. My pal is about the same height, and when he looks as skinny as I do in that photo (I'm probably about 168 in that picture, maybe 5 lbs lighter than I am now), he's probably 150 or so. In that respect I'm similar to Lance (it ends there), he's also not particularly small, he's more like 5'10" and the lightest he ever gets is 160 lbs. Other guys who climb like Lance and are his height are almost all well under 150 lbs in UCI racing.

I can get down to 165 or so when I'm racing bikes. I stop riding and racing and *bang* I'm 185 in 60 days or less. And that's a big reason why I ride. I don't look fat at 185 lbs by the way. Not at all.