Nachoman

I've been on the injured reserve list for the last month and my legs have finally healed. I admit that I'm a terrible shaver. It was a blood letting every time.

trekkster

Riding in a pack, taking a spill is not the worst thing. Having the ER doc pull rocks, tar, and chunks of glass out of your legs is far easier w/out a brush to navigate around. Plus infection is very likely when your legs are like a cheese grater had a field day on them.


IE: This guy:

noremac

And shaving your ass is an even bigger PITA, believe me.

Tapeworm21

For all the leg shavers....

Is there any better feeling than putting on pants/shorts right after you shave? It is the best feeling ever.

nofish

It sure does fell nice, But looks bad!

Psimet2001 

I shaved for years back when I was "racing" Juniors. I caught a ton of flak. That will happen when you're in 7th-8th grade in El Paso Texas and you are a dude shaving your legs.

With cycling shaving is th price of admission to the community of racers. If you don't, unless you're stomping everyone like waterrockets is, you can/will be shunned.

I am currently racing with full hair in effect. It looks like crap and feels like crap, but I am not "allowed" to shave. My wife. Thread about it last year sometime.

I think she might be seeing the point now, but at this late point in the season it would be a next year thing anyway.

...hey...look....a shaving thread in Road Cycling....an it's an old one too....

Tulex

I don't care what you guys say, you shave your legs because you like it. Period.

stevegor

Hairy legs hide varicose veins.

umd

Crash a few times and have her change the dressings on your wounds and she may change her mind quickly...

Whatever dude

Psimet2001 

HAHAHA....she's a nurse....that means the odds of her caring for one of my wounds is like...0%.

...especially if that wound comes from cycling. She'd be like, "serves you right. Want some help? Why don't you go ask your bike for help. Looks like it hurts. "

nostromo

Things I have noticed re shaved legs;

-A guy doesn't look complete on a high end road bike with full kit (and he's in good shape) without shaved legs

-I've noticed in group rides; the guys with hairy legs are slow and some are out of shape, the guys with shaved legs are all in shape and very fast (and never seem to get tired)

-a female partner I ride with sometimes said I should shave my legs because they'd look even better (and they're all tanned too), but I hate shaving my face everyday, I can't imagine even more reale state to shave each week

-but...if I ever get a high end carbon gee whiz bike, then I'll feel compelled to shave them and destroy the hairy leg riders....

Hickeydog

I shave for 3 reasons:
1. If I crash, makes the road rash less sever, results in less pain with the scrubbin, and makes changin the bandage easier.
2. It makes me look sexy.
3. Makes clean up after a wet, dirty ride much, much easier.

Tulex

You guys think that roadies are the only people that get injuries to their legs? Many other sports, hobbies, occupations cause injuries to all parts of the body that have hair on them. They don't shave. You spend how many hours a year keeping the hair off your legs so that if you have an injury, it won't hurt as much cleaning and covering it. So, look at how many spills you have total in a lifetime where it actually paid off to have shaved, and compare that to the hours spent shaving over that period. And talk about HTFU, sheesh, if you take a spill, a little hair in the way shouldn't kill you. No, I stick with the fact that you like it. I think that you shavers saw the swimmers, and liked it.

"I'm too sexy for my bike, too sexy for my bike" which is funny in that that song is from a group called "Right said Fred"

umd

Crashes, massages, cleanup, vanity. All valid reasons. I spend 5 minutes a week doing it, not exactly a big time sink, especially considering how much I spend changing and showering every day.

Brandy

It does. It really does. I love a man with shaved legs. Hairy legs do nothing for me.

caloso

Tulex: You're absolutely right. I used to play a lot of baseball when I was in HS. Both for my school and American Legion ball. We played on some really crappy hardpan fields. My legs were pretty much covered with strawberries from March to August. In retrospect, it would have made more sense for me to shave my legs as a third baseman than as a roadie. But I was a kid and even if it had occurred to me, I would have never done it.

And you're right. I like it.

umd

Little strawberries are one thing, huge abrasions from sliding are something else. Sometimes I wonder why we don't also shave our arms, but some recent incidents have reminded me that the arms don't usually get it as bad. I was left with some small scrapes on my elbows, which don't really have hair anyway, but a huge gash and abrasion near my knee.

And I like it too, but that's not the only reason, and it's not why I started...

startedspyder05

Now you know that roadies have better legs than swimmers...

umd

Exhibit A:


Exhibit B:

Brandy

See...look at that. Nice muscles totally hidden by furriness. Not smexy. Nice muscles on display. Smexy.

BananaTugger

Sounds like I'm on the right track.

Thanks for the tip.

Brandy

I'm here to help.

Brandy

Oh...and it's not all about the look. They feel nicer when they're shaved too.

BananaTugger

I'd rather feel nice than be nice.

Brandy

Under the covers, when I'm running my foot up and down Vireo's...oh nevermind.