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Old 05-09-11 | 06:13 PM
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I hate this thread, it makes me want to take up shaving again.
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Old 05-09-11 | 07:04 PM
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If you're logging 100+mile weeks in the saddle, shaving makes putting on sun screen and washing off grime/grease much faster.
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Old 05-09-11 | 07:08 PM
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I hate this thread, it makes me want to take up shaving again.
It's making me want to cleanly shave. I havent done so in about a week, starting to get prickly.
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Old 05-09-11 | 07:55 PM
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I would shave, because leg hair has always irritated me, and I've got no masculinity to show, but SHAVING TAKES SOOOOOOOOOO LONG and is even more obnoxious!
Would do the Nairy Potter thing, but it smells and I don't wanna go buy any.
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Old 05-09-11 | 10:16 PM
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Beard trimmer = short enough to get most of the benefit, but without the insane ingrown hairs some of us get. Also far easier upkeep. Veet also great below the hips.
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Old 05-09-11 | 10:28 PM
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I use my beard trimmer to get it real low, then usually fully shave with razor. I've been thinking about veet for sometime now. I may try it for this upcoming shave.

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Old 05-09-11 | 10:54 PM
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if i were to shave, i wouldnt be able to stop without doing my whole body
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Old 05-09-11 | 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Butthash
but SHAVING TAKES SOOOOOOOOOO LONG and is even more obnoxious!
Women seem to be able to take no time to shave, ask one of them. Then again their hair grows so slowly, my legs would feel like sand paper hours after shaving.

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the insane ingrown hairs
The horror
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if i were to shave, i wouldnt be able to stop without doing my whole body
it was tempting
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Old 05-10-11 | 03:53 AM
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I shaved my legs once and my wife laughed so hard I've never done it again. I commute 21 miles a day on my Specialized Allez and noticed no difference with the shaved legs except they looked way whiter. Oh and that my wife wouldn't sleep with me until it all grew back.
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Old 05-10-11 | 04:10 AM
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I shaved my legs once and my wife laughed so hard I've never done it again. I commute 21 miles a day on my Specialized Allez and noticed no difference with the shaved legs except they looked way whiter. Oh and that my wife wouldn't sleep with me until it all grew back.
without exception one of the best posts in the last week.
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Old 05-10-11 | 06:07 AM
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get out the venus. Shaved legs are the new black.
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Old 05-10-11 | 08:11 AM
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Shave your legs?!
I been doing it wrong.
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Old 05-10-11 | 08:42 AM
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BTW, your "Cycling Art Prints" link is down.
Thanks for the heads-up. Should work now.
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Old 05-10-11 | 11:30 AM
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Thanks for the heads-up. Should work now.
the photo's are nice btw...then again, w a name like FUGAZI Dave, how could one go wrong?!?
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Old 05-10-11 | 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by lubes17319
Shave your legs?!
I been doing it wrong.
If this is you, keep doing that. Not shaving is just unfortunate.
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Old 05-10-11 | 04:15 PM
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Only time I ever shaved my legs was during a cross-country season about 5 years ago; I had such bad calf muscle knotting that I received deep tissue massages twice a month.
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Old 05-10-11 | 06:09 PM
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Oddly enough, the legs are about the only thing I have never shaved...
I've used the trimmer, but never all the way to smooth. Might have to try it out some time.
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Old 05-10-11 | 07:46 PM
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Women seem to be able to take no time to shave, ask one of them. Then again their hair grows so slowly, my legs would feel like sand paper hours after shaving.
Slowly, and less coarse. and when you start from scratch, it's even longer...But the face trimmer, never thought of that! Well, see y'all later, time to pick up shaving again!
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w a name like FUGAZI Dave, how could one go wrong?!?
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Old 05-10-11 | 07:53 PM
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i do it cause the last time i went down the nurse spent over an hour separating my hair from blood, skin and gravel... at least she was a hot nurse, made the time and pain much better...
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Old 05-10-11 | 08:42 PM
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Old 05-11-11 | 08:41 AM
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I have noticed that I seem to sweat less under my bibs shaved vs un-shaved. Since my bibs and any normal shorts that I wear do not hit my knees I end up just shaving the full leg. If you like it and you do not care about people giving you s!@t for it then by all means go for it.
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Old 05-11-11 | 04:14 PM
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i shave because im a swimmer and water polo player.

anyone in for a BF shave party?
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Old 05-11-11 | 05:34 PM
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anyone in for a BF shave party?
crossed a line.
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Old 05-11-11 | 05:36 PM
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crossed a line.
Not here; what happens in SS/FG stays in SS/FG.
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Old 05-11-11 | 05:56 PM
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F*ck it, I started shaving a few months back. I look like a 10 yo. Full boby. Feels great. As long as you have a "mean, lean, fighting machine" constitution.

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