Beards

[edrobbin]

Aside from making you look like the cream of the hipster world, proving you have testosterone flowing through your veins and making the ladies swoon, they also keep your face warm when commuting.

What's not to love?

[Recent conversion to the facially hirsute]

 

[Donger]

Although on the down side, they do act as fog filters and leave you with a wet face after a cold foggy morning ride.

 

[Markymark]

Itchy.

 

[cosmicbike]

I keep working on it, but no matter how hard I try I just look scruffy. Is there a trick to it, especially given I can use 'Movember' as an excuse..

 

[edrobbin]

With a bit of grey coming through, don't think scruffy, think sophisticated. Ginger and grey - perfect combination

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Mine (when I was actually able to grow it) just made me look my age, instead of heaps younger than my age. I gave up on beards several years ago, after spending a few decades manfully trying to grow a good one.

 

[ColinJ]

Aside from making you look like the cream of the hipster world, proving you have testosterone flowing through your veins and making the ladies swoon, they also keep your face warm when commuting.

What's not to love?

Finding half of yesterday's soup in there?

 

[Simontm]

Finding half of yesterday's soup in there?

Wait, that's a bad thing?

 

[smutchin]

A female friend wrote a piece for a men's mag about the beard trend a few years ago. She came out with the line that a beard makes 95% of men 50% more attractive. Or was it the other way round - 50% of men 95% more attractive? Maybe it was both. I can't remember.

 

[Drago]

I love my beard. I'm often mistaken for Sean Connery.

 

[jefmcg]

View: https://youtu.be/K7ZA-096BAE

 

[Markymark]

I love my beard. I'm often mistaken for Sean Connery. View attachment 150462

Is that your Carol Vorderman face?

 

[Twizit]

Yep they do keep your face warm, but have also been known to attract ice and snow when it's really

Couldn't go back to shaving every day - what's not to like about a quick beard trim once a week vs scraping a blade across your skin every morning

 

[smutchin]

Couldn't go back to shaving every day - what's not to like about a quick beard trim once a week vs scraping a blade across your skin every morning

I'll confess, laziness was my main reason for growing a beard.

And there's something quite rugged and manly about getting ice in your beard. You can pretend you're Shackleton or something.

 

[Drago]

Or a Hillbilly.