Shave legs to ride around?

[esoxlucius]

Never shaved my legs, but have done the chest several times to avoid the carpet coming out the top of the shirt, the whole hair thing changes as you age, my mate has just had to shave his arms, he was developing gorrila type growth, my arms and legs don't grow as much nowadays but my ears and nose have gone into overdrive.

I think everyone on the forum will be familiar with bits, if not all of the above post, lol.

I never touch my legs, but man, chest, back, ear, nose, eye brow, I've got it all going on. As yet though the sack and crack regions are out of bounds!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It seems then that there is no real reason to shave legs, but having done so the cyclists of the past then dreamed up a load of nonsense to justify their actions.

That is about the sum of it, next they will be trying to explain why they wore their wife’s tights in winter

 

[a.twiddler]

I do enjoy the topic of being aero for shaved legs when the person has a full on beard. 😂

That's a good point actually. When I left the RAF in the early 70s I had a revolt against shaving once, maybe twice a day and grew an immense beard. Well, it was the 70s. This continued in various degrees of bushiness throughout my life, so whatever the state of my legs, I had a built in air brake, or hair brake. Whatever the effect on my forward progress, or other people, I enjoyed my beardiness even as the fashion for facial hair waxed and waned. Nowadays it's low maintenance, just enough to stop me looking like a potato. I've still got a surprising amount of head hair left, even though my forehead is getting bigger. I'm fighting a rearguard action against nose hair and ear hair. Beards, eh. A bit Marmite. Could have a thread of its own.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

No. Great Apes are naturally hairy and that's the way I like my legs, au naturale.

 

[MontyVeda]

I do enjoy the topic of being aero for shaved legs when the person has a full on beard. 😂

Having a chat with a cycling friend a few years back, he was arguing that the tiny aero bonus from shaved legs will make a difference in competitive cycling. I suggested that if that were the case then Bradley Wiggins would have shaved his sideburns too.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

No, personally I find it easier to ride around when I'm not shaving my legs. I mean, you can only do so many things simultaneously.

 

[Sharky]

No, personally I find it easier to ride around when I'm not shaving my legs. I mean, you can only do so many things simultaneously.

Dunno, I've had a few close shaves when riding.

 

[numbnuts]

When I first bought my road bike, I did shave my legs, but it felt very strange as first, they felt wet all the time
then when the hair started growing back again it was all pricky and didn't like it, so shaved them again.
Then the question came up, How far do you go ?, well I like my shorts to be short, I hate having them down to my knees
so I always cut and reseam them on my sewing machine, I suppose they are more like hot pants, so I shave accordingly.
Many years later I still like the "shave look and feel", you use less suntan cream too.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

In my shaving days my mum bought me a thing called an Epilady which was two rotating discs that pulled the hairs out. It was the most painful experiences in my life.

Also try plucking your eyebrows and waxing your upper lip

 

[Pat "5mph"]

@N0bodyOfTheGoat why the surprised smiley?
I do this routinely ... because I'm a woman

 

[annedonnelly]

In my shaving days my mum bought me a thing called an Epilady which was two rotating discs that pulled the hairs out. It was the most painful experiences in my life.

My mum once got something like that on approval. For some reason she got me to test it. It was painful and didn't do a good job of removing the hairs. It went back.