Shaved Legs

[teletext45]

Hey people, its probabbly come up more then once! but here goes......


So man up who shaves? and by what means? razor? wax? veet?


fake tan? i don't about any of you but my legs are like milk bottles..... lol

thoughts??


andy

 

[teletext45]

i don't tan i just burn

 

[manualtypist]

I cringe every time I see a grown man, on a bike...doing the normal commute...with shaved limbs!
Really not necessary.

 

[teletext45]

theres an amount of snobbery around it though isint there?

 

[Bayerd]

theres an amount of snobbery around it though isint there?

Snobbery no, stupidity probably......

I'd laugh my cock off at anyone who thinks they're going to go faster just by shaving their legs. What bullshit....

 

[teletext45]

thats the other debate, some people think its for aerodynamics, then theres tradition and what i got told to ease the road rash

 

[fungus]

Always in the summer (with a razor), have done since I was 13 & I'm 38 now. I'll probably start in a few weeks time as soon as it's warm enough to change from leg warmers to knee warmers or shorts if we're lucky

Hairy legs & lycra shorts are just wrong IMO.

 

[neil earley]

Think you need to ask Gavin Henson { ex wales rugby player} shaves his legs and loves the orange tan look.

 

[Ajay]

I'd laugh my cock off at anyone who thinks they're going to go faster just by shaving their legs. What bullshit....
[/quote]

Come on, cyclists don't shave their legs to go faster, swimmers do that! Many sports people (footballers, runners etc etc) shave their legs as they are regularly being massaged, it's for practical reasons.
The road rash reason is true, it's a lot easier to clean a wound and get a dressing to stay on if there isn't a load of hair in the way!
I strim my legs once in a while using my hair clippers without a guard, gets it nice and short without that horrible raw feeling when I put my jeans on!
I do it for a bunch of reasons, but it has reduced the number of insect bites/stings I get as they can bounce off instead of getting trapped in a hairy jungle!

 

[screenman]

To the person who remarked about the commuter with shaved legs, maybe he races between commutes. Difficult I suppose if you race each weekend to grow hair for the commute on Monday morning if you raced on Sunday.

For me the reason my legs are kept short of hair is to be prepared for the accident and inevitable gravel rash and scrubbing out of the wound.

 

[palinurus]

I cringe every time I see a grown man, on a bike...doing the normal commute...with shaved limbs!
Really not necessary.

They might well race at the weekends.

Perhaps some sort of hairy legwarmer for the commute would be more acceptable.

 

[zacklaws]

Each to their own.

During the summer months when I wear minimal clothing, I always shave, I know from experience after a bad crash which removed a lot of skin, that the shaven areas where the easiest to dress, where I had clothes ripped off me and was unshaven underneath, it was painfull with the dressings.

 

[Craig Curt]

This is nice to think that shaving legs makes cycling faster...but the methods for shaving must be comfortable...some times shaved hair on legs become hard and try to irritate you...it bother cycling....
//curt

 

[palinurus]

Snobbery no, stupidity probably......

I'd laugh my cock off at anyone who thinks they're going to go faster just by shaving their legs. What bullshit....

Ah! but it might well do that.

Not aerodynamics, more a statement of intent. It's a mental thing: when the hair is gone you start to think like a cyclist.

 

[palinurus]

And it helps your legwarmers stay up.