Leg shaving time

[Drago]

Surely shaving a go faster stripe brings the best performance gains?

 

[Globalti]

Read The Escape Artist by Matt Seaton for the proper explanation of leg shaving. It's mostly massage and a mark of graduation to the ranks of serious amateur or pro rider.

 

[bpsmith]

Surely shaving a go faster stripe brings the nest performance gains?

Performance gains for your “nest”?

 

[woodbutcher]

Read The Escape Artist by Matt Seaton for the proper explanation of leg shaving. It's mostly massage and a mark of graduation to the ranks of serious amateur or pro rider.

Look at me, l've graduated to the dizzy heights of a serious amateur

 

[Dec66]

There's no evidence of any aerodynamic benefit to shaving your legs, so there's that. I've never understood the need to shave legs, I'm not sure what it's supposed to accomplish for most riders.

For Pro riders I can see there might be an argument that it helps with road rash, or when they are having post ride massages, but given that I try to avoid the former, and Mrs C refuses to do the latter...

@DCLane nailed it.

"Tan lines".

Nothing messes up your tan more than wiry hairs.

 

[si_c]

@DCLane nailed it.

"Tan lines".

Nothing messes up your tan more than wiry hairs.

I'll quite happily take anything messing up my lobster lines. Never had a tan, probably never will.

 

[Dec66]

You're asking for trouble if you shave the contact areas.

I was that soldier... The irritation in the groove twixt buttock and upper thigh upon regrowth is something I wouldn't wish on everybody...

 

[numbnuts]

You're asking for trouble if you shave the contact areas.

"Man up" you get use to it

 

[Globalti]

I did it once and the other irritant is the stubble rubbing as your trouser legs ride up. Won't bother again.

 

[woodbutcher]

@DCLane nailed it.

"Tan lines".

Nothing messes up your tan more than wiry hairs.

Thats 'cos you live in wishy-washy England where the sun hardly gets a look in Here it was 27c today and the sun would shrivel your leg hair !

 

[fossyant]

Only when I raced, too much faff otherwise.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Well, it is for me anyway, first time in the shorts this year and I look like a gorilla. So, the shaver will be working overtime later.

But it got me to thinking...

Ha! Did mine first thing this morning for the first time this year. :-)

 

[screenman]

Anyone tried cleaning out gravel rash on hairy legs, if you have them you may have found it easier if the legs were shaved prior to the rash occurring.

 

[classic33]

Ha! Did mine first thing this morning for the first time this year. :-)

Before your kit wash?

 

[Milzy]

We should all shave our chests like the Nivia for men advert.