http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: To shave, or not to shave... en Sun, 17 May 2026 06:41:01 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108867 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:15:41 +0000 nearefare 108867@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is going viral but on topic so ... :)<br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108845 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:04:24 +0000 chdot 108845@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You said it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108844 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:53:27 +0000 Smudge 108844@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sometimes this forum can seem strangely like a confessional lol </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108801 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:46:37 +0000 Baldcyclist 108801@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The time I did, I used my wife's cream stuff that she uses. Seems to do what it says on the tin without any pain, or blood. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108787 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:09:27 +0000 Smudge 108787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fair one, though even locked out mine are not smooth :-/<br /> (And bics=nicks!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108783 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:54:42 +0000 Arellcat 108783@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's because you're not locking your knee out properly when you do the back. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108782 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:44:44 +0000 Smudge 108782@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oooh sod that! My shower room would look like the aftermath of that famous scene from psycho if I used them, the back of my knees especially (shudder) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108781 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:40:59 +0000 ruggtomcat 108781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>bic singles all the way. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108780 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:39:23 +0000 Smudge 108780@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm dark hair + too much of it means that on the infrequent occasions when I feel the need (Rocky Horror or multi day hard rides) I'd far rather pay the nice Sam at Sinwaxing to remove it all for me. Requires a lot less gymnastic ability than shaving the back of your own thighs too :-o </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108779 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:32:40 +0000 Arellcat 108779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>When your over 6ft thats a lot of surface area.</em></p> <p>Tell me about it! By the way, the Wilkinson Sword Quattro razor is rubbish. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108768 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:06:21 +0000 ruggtomcat 108768@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow thats a lot of effort to avoid any aesthetic reasoning. I like shaved legs, they are definitely hot, however I dont bother doing them myself because it takes <em>ages!</em> When your over 6ft thats a lot of surface area and I always miss a bit. Several bits. I get away with fishnets no bother, but then my body hair is blond. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108764 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:53:26 +0000 fimm 108764@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I shave my legs - because it is the done thing for women. So if you shave your legs because "that's what cyclists do" then I don't have a problem with that. </p> <p>(I suppose it does contribute to the "cyclists are "other"" problem...)</p> <p>My b/f shaves areas you don't want to know about to reduce sweatyness/itchness. He made me laugh one time - as a cyclist/triathlete he'll shave his legs, and especially before races. Anyway he was doing the Pentland Skyline fell race and remarked that he hadn't had time to shave his legs - I think he'd have stood out if he had shaved his legs!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108742 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:20:55 +0000 DeathbyPompino 108742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm regularly accused at work of shaving my legs. *Sigh* I've got the legs of a slightly oddly toned eight year old </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108736 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:37:39 +0000 Cyclingmollie 108736@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Uberuce: <em>"My legs are smooth as the mirror on the Hubble"</em></p> <p>I think my leg hair could probably be seen from space. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108732 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:26:46 +0000 Uberuce 108732@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My legs are smooth as the mirror on the Hubble. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108730 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:35:21 +0000 Charterhall 108730@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thirty years ago when I got into riding the bike for sport it was considered seriously abnormal if you didn't shave your legs. There was was one guy in a neighbouring club was was often identified as 'the one with the hairy legs'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108722 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:12:13 +0000 Arellcat 108722@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>If shaving is purely for injuries, then you'd "want" to shave more widely than the legs.</em></p> <p>Chicks digs scars (on other people, presumably, rather than on themselves). Go gnarly! Pick those scabs! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108721 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:02:21 +0000 kaputnik 108721@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Training more, drinking less ale and eating less cakes are going to give me a lot more marginal gains than taking a razor to my hairy pegs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108717 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:16:40 +0000 Cyclingmollie 108717@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just as you can be over-biked for your ability, so you can also be over-shaved. Let your leggy freak-flag fly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108714 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:41:00 +0000 amir 108714@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"My personal/triathlon-training brother-in-law cites sweat-rash as the main reason why he shaves."</p> <p>I cite razor rash as the main reason why I shave as little as permissible. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108713 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:23:02 +0000 Darkerside 108713@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I read a description of a person looking like a 'hair lollipop', and decided it probably wasn't a good idea... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108712 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:13:38 +0000 wingpig 108712@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My personal/triathlon-training brother-in-law cites sweat-rash as the main reason why he shaves. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108709 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:10:19 +0000 kaputnik 108709@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some people claim it's to help with the massages / rubbing in embrocation oil / deep heat / deep freeze etc.</p> <p>I subscribe to the "fuzzy tennisball goes faster than a smooth tennisball" school of thought.</p> <p>Hirsute pride! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108708 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:04:32 +0000 amir 108708@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If shaving is purely for injuries, then you'd "want" to shave more widely than the legs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10024#post-108706 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:52:30 +0000 Baldcyclist 108706@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2013/apr/17/male-cyclists-shave-legs" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2013/apr/17/male-cyclists-shave-legs</a></p> <p>I'm not deluded enough to think it helps performance in any way, but maybe helps after a fall? Pulling plasters/bandages off scabs?</p> <p>I <em>did</em> shave my legs once (last summer), and can't comment on healing powers as I didn't fall of whilst my legs were hairless.</p> <p>I can comment that it looks really quite weird for a hairy man (scalp excluded of course) to be hairy on top half, and not on bottom half. &lt;/TooMuchInformation&gt;</p> <p>I wouldn't do it again.</p> <p>Well, who knows, maybe? </p>