Texas - Shaving your legs

Here's a question I'd like to throw out to the masses. How far up your legs do you shave?

I ask this because of the variety of answers I've received over the years. Some say just above the bottom of your shorts while others say everything from the neck down. I've heard the reason why but yet to make that virgin trim. Now for the first time in over 12 years of cycling I'm considering the task.

So let's hear it from all you clean shaving roadies, what's your preference?

Sgt. Spillco

when I do it, I go all the way up to the waist

no point in half-assing the affair

You guys are hard-core.

I actually shave each leg up to a different spot. I would just shave them both up the my *ahem* business, (the idea of stubble rasping around there just seems unbearable). However, I have an ileostomy which hangs down a few inches further on my left leg, so I stop shaving just below where it sits against my skin, (same fear of stubble there).

I do shave my arms all the way up to my pits. The arm shaving started on a fluke (http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.php?p=2687549&postcount=28) and now I just like having smooth arms.

Yeesh. If I started shaving my legs, I wouldn't have time to do anything else...I would spend all my time in the shower, watching the hair grow back in ten minutes so I could shave it off again.

And besides, if I shaved my legs, the carpet on my chest would look really strange...so I would have to shave that too, and then of course no one wants to have hair just on their arms...so off the hair would go, killing even more of my time each day.

I really don't have a problem with shorn legs/chest/arms/etc. But that is a lot of effort for too little practical gain for me.

I would love to shave because it would make putting on sunscreen a lot easier, but I agree with the previous poster I am just way to hairy for it to even look right. Maybe if black and decker made a personal grooming weed wacker, I might give it a go then.

Here's a question I'd like to throw out to the masses. How far up your legs do you shave?

I ask this because of the variety of answers I've received over the years. Some say just above the bottom of your shorts while others say everything from the neck down. I've heard the reason why but yet to make that virgin trim. Now for the first time in over 12 years of cycling I'm considering the task.

So let's hear it from all you clean shaving roadies, what's your preference?

Sgt. Spillco

The idea behind shaving is that 1) hairless legs take a massage better (easier to massage) and 2) it`s easier to pick the road out of hairless legs following a crash. Does anyone consider the two above reasons when shaving? Of course not. People now shave simply because roadies are `supposed` to shave.

Now, to your question. You`d do well to shave high up on the thigh. You`re basically trying to keep hairless those areas that tend to get the road rash.

Hm anyone think we can get a nice BF group discount at Renaissance Laser Center (http://www.renaissancelaser.com/) ;)

Hm anyone think we can get a nice BF group discount at Renaissance Laser Center (http://www.renaissancelaser.com/) ;)

LOL - I mentioned the possibility of laser hair removal to my wife and she said, "Look here Princess, I've been shaving my legs for 20 some odd years longer than you have. If anyone is getting lasered, it's me." :)

No shaving anywhere for me. That stuff's for the birds if you ask me.

Indeed. You girls are hard core. I guess it makes you go, like 1/1,000, of a MPH faster?

"Girls"
It took all kinds of imagination to come up with that one. :rolleyes:

And no, not faster at all. Besides, I'm a commuter and utility rider. I don't race.
I don't get massages and I don't fall often enough for it to make any difference in picking dirt out of or bandaging wounds.

Okay, "my bad"! So, what's the reason for shaving exactly? I thought swimmers and cyclists shaved so they'd be more aero-dynamic!

I refuse to shave up past the upper portion of my toenails.

Something about road rash; however, I'm not going to shave my legs (or arms) in anticipation of an accident. That's a lot of work for a once a year or so fall (if that).

Okay, "my bad"! So, what's the reason for shaving exactly? I thought swimmers and cyclists shaved so they'd be more aero-dynamic!

You know, I wish I had a good answer for that. If I remember correctly, I started because my commutes at dusk would take me along WRC and I kept getting gnats and other flying insects tangled up in my leg hair, (I still get the occasional critter stuck in my helmet vents). Now, I just prefer to be "smooth." Two winters ago, I let it grow out for a month or so and my wife kept pestering me about when I would "get that nasty hair off my legs."

Oh, and the "Princess" reference in my earlier post was genuine. My wife has called me that for years. I think that started when she realized that I own more purses than she does. ;)

I shave up to the top of my legs now. I went mid-thigh, just above the tan line, but the furry shorts look was too weird.

What's this thing you call shaving?