amnesia
Free-wheeling into oblivion...
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- Bournemouth, Dorset
As it says on the tin, really...
Do you shave your legs ?
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- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
no. for the average (even above average) amateur rider, there's no real benefit, other than sartorial.
the pros do it as it makes post-race massage etc a lot easier, also easier to apply plasters etc during the race after a crash.
the rest of us don't need or have this facility; but there are plenty who shave regardless. perhaps because my leg hairs are pretty light, i don't feel the same need i might if i had a gorilla's legs (like my brother-in-law).
the pros do it as it makes post-race massage etc a lot easier, also easier to apply plasters etc during the race after a crash.
the rest of us don't need or have this facility; but there are plenty who shave regardless. perhaps because my leg hairs are pretty light, i don't feel the same need i might if i had a gorilla's legs (like my brother-in-law).
yes i shave mine. im cursed with very hairy legs and they just wouldn't look right with cycling shorts 
my brother in law has never shaved his legs but still has less hair on them than i can grow in a week !!!!
PS: i dont stop at the top of the legs either
my brother in law has never shaved his legs but still has less hair on them than i can grow in a week !!!!
PS: i dont stop at the top of the legs either
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- the post-brexit wasteland
just to clarify, i'm not jig-sore's brother-in-law…
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
nope. my legs aren't hairy enough to warrant it.
downfader
extimus uero philosophus
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- 'ampsheeeer
Makes me laugh when guys at work (even noncyclists) start going on about shaving... even shaving their chest and back. 
It all seems a bit odd and alien to me, LOL! I'm quite a hairy guy around the chest and back... my legs are quite whispy at best so you'd think I shaved them, from a distance. 
It all seems a bit odd and alien to me, LOL! I'm quite a hairy guy around the chest and back... my legs are quite whispy at best so you'd think I shaved them, from a distance. some people dont like being hairy, its not funny when your daughter starts stroking your arm and going "ooh, monkey hair" 
i have shaved just about all my "hairy areas" over the years and even had to cut my eye lashes !!! not funny when they rub on the inside of your glasses !!!!
it's also weird when you realise the hair thats blowing over your eyes is actually from your eye-brows !!!
i am the wolf-man...
i have shaved just about all my "hairy areas" over the years and even had to cut my eye lashes !!! not funny when they rub on the inside of your glasses !!!!
it's also weird when you realise the hair thats blowing over your eyes is actually from your eye-brows !!!
i am the wolf-man...
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
I do mine, I'm a lady you know...
The other day, on the Big G sportive, I was riding along on the trike and spotted a single hair I'd missed, just below my knee. On a 'bent, you see your legs rather a lot. It annoyed me all the way back!
On the other hand, I can admire my newly developing muscles better on the trike.
The other day, on the Big G sportive, I was riding along on the trike and spotted a single hair I'd missed, just below my knee. On a 'bent, you see your legs rather a lot. It annoyed me all the way back!
On the other hand, I can admire my newly developing muscles better on the trike.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
No, I think that extra 0.0001% of wind resistance is good training 
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
No. I'm a crap cyclist and slow to boot. I would look even sillier than I do already if I pretended to be some kind of athlete. BTW, if anybody could give me advice about how to hide by knobbly knees, I would be more than grateful.... longer shorts...?
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
I do, but mainly to freak out the rest of the local CTC...
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
Not legs, but I have a couple of dozen long wiry hairs on top of my feet that look damm silly in flip-flops so they come off with a single wave of the razor
