Do you shave your legs?
 

Do you, fgss riders, shave your legs? I'm sure most roadies do it. What about us?

Most roadies do not shave their legs.

Hipsters don't shave their legs, either. The tight girlie pants rubs the hair right off.

I do. I'm a roadie. It just happens that one of my road bikes has only a single gear.

i like the pace i ride at now...i don't shave my face so...yeah i don't

Oh Hail no!

Yes. Crashing in a Cat A cross race sucks enough without an infection due to hair.

Efff no!!!

Yeah I just recently started doing this, mostly so I could check out how my legs looked without the forest on, see how my tan actually was, etc.

Now I think I'll keep it up, just a bit of a pain to keep having to deal with it every week (as often as I can be bothered).

Any tips on good/easy/low maintenance techniques? I've been using my razor and wet shaving, I've tried nair-type stuff to no good use and I was donated an epilator (like a sanding disc thing that's supposed to pull the hair out) - nothing seems to work like the wet shave, though I've not tried waxing.

I do. Also a pretty serious roadie, too. Ride my fixed as my commuter/around town/have fun in parking lots bike.

ditto

Nothing like a well muscled calf with a network of veins showing to keep the tools at bay.

I am becoming a roadie today (I guess). I will pick up my 08 Ridley Damocles today (just nobody tell my Bareknuckle!). Finally I can ride with the group rides around here without seeming pretentious. I can't wait to ride it.

But I've shaved my legs for a while now.

Well, I should say, I won't seem "FG pretentious". Now i just have to worry about the national champions in the group rides around here who want to stomp the ass of the new poser with the cool bike.

No. If I were to start shaving my legs, I'd pretty much have to start shaving my chest, stomach, ass, crotch and taint or I'd end up with a rather unsightly "hair line," which would be a hair's breadth (GET IT?!?!?!?!?!) more unsightly than my sasquatchian countenance.

I do, but I also occassionally race my road bike

I actually "buzz". It seems that I naturally have 3 inch pubes growing on my legs, so I use an electric razor, with a #2 or 3 guard on it and kind of trim it up. I leave it long enough for it not to be perpetual stubble. Its totally not bike related though, I just think it looks better, and it feels better in during the hot summer here.

I am neither woman nor olympic swimmer so no, I do not.

i wax. Although i also wax my bikini line and my eyebrows. I'll claim it's in the name of cycling.

More aero, more sexy. Women rule.

A bit of a hijack here, how is FG pretentious? I would think that a uber-expensive geared roadie bike and shaved legs would be more pretentious than anything. I have nothing against shaved legs, I did it while I was racing on the road and running triathlons. I don't do it now, it's a pain in the ass....

I guess that it is not pretentious per se, it just won't work; and to think that it would is pretentious. I can't ride in a fast-moving group on my FG without messing up the pace, which really annoys people.

amen.

Yes.
and be glad I do!

nope. i just try not to fall. lol

Nope, I ride in jeans so there's no real benefit to be had. I'm not opposed to the idea, I just don't do it