View Poll Results: What do you do?
Smooth n girly
192
55.98%
Short n stubbly
17
4.96%
Only girls shave their legs; I think I'm a real man.
134
39.07%
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Guys, when you shave your legs...
07-30-09, 02:39 PM
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Lance Legweak
07-30-09, 02:50 PM
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07-30-09, 03:34 PM
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- Easier to massage afterward/less oil used.
- Less bugs, crap, road-yuck absorbed during rides.
- Faster healing roadrash. (Nothing worse than getting up at the end of each class to have your hair rip the scabs open again, then go sit at the next class just long enough for the scabs to re-coagulate into a hairy, tangled mess again.)
- Looks more intimidating to those you are trying to ride off your wheel.
- Addictive. (Hairy legs feel repulsive in bed once you've gotten accustomed to it.)
- There's probably some sexual advantage too, but it's stuck in the theoretical stage for me.
07-30-09, 06:08 PM
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07-31-09, 02:54 AM
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Shaving every other day with baby oil and plenty of lotion afterwards=smooth. Wife's a cyclist so she understands.
07-31-09, 06:20 AM
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Right to the wood, every three days. Never thought I would do it but after seeing abuddy wipe out and dealing with insueing road rash not healing I thought ok why not. Now I can't stand hair on my legs, then you get a massage with smooth legs and while you're in heaven it will all be worth it. I just shave in shower a couple minutes and done.
07-31-09, 08:26 AM
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So where does the shaving stop on the leg? just enough so that the bottom of your shorts aren't on hair? or all the way up to the wedding tackle? lol yikes I would think just enough to get past the bottom of the shorts.
07-31-09, 08:43 AM
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07-31-09, 09:06 AM
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07-31-09, 09:08 AM
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07-31-09, 10:09 AM
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Razored once a week, maybe twice if I have a race. Shave a bit past the short line and then use a trimmer the rest of the way up. All the way up.
07-31-09, 10:16 AM
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07-31-09, 11:12 AM
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>dealing with insueing road rash not healing<
Having hair doesn't impede the healing process for a wound.
Having hair doesn't impede the healing process for a wound.
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07-31-09, 11:34 AM
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No, but it makes wound care a b*tch. But I don't do it for those reasons. I shave simply because it's cleaner. You are churning your legs next to a dirty, spinning tire for 3-5 hours. Nothing like cleaning up dirty, sweaty, caked, tangled leg hair at the end of a ride.
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07-31-09, 11:37 AM
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07-31-09, 11:39 AM
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Oh yea: shave, with a razor, once a week, maybe twice if I have an event. Up to where most of the hair stops, which on me happens to be the upper thigh.
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07-31-09, 06:58 PM
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uhm... i started shaving "down there" before I started shaving my legs. gf preferred it, so w.e. also keeps things cooler. so for me, i'm shaved from my feet up to my waist. if you see me wearing a pair of jeans w/o a shirt, that's up to the point i stop shaving. anything else = shaved.
07-31-09, 11:53 PM
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I like my women shorn-n-sweet so the least I can do is reciprocate..... Oh and the legs are just for fun.... but the arms are too much to keep up.