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    Is it a step too far?
    • CommentAuthorredrum
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
     
    not if your a lady!
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
     
    Just shave one leg and see how it goes.
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    OK
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      CommentAuthorGertie
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
     
    Shaved legs is the only way to go.
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    Well if your wearing a skirt or dress you really should. For my Jr. prom a lame ass joke snowballed. "If the poster says 'semi-formal dress' I should wear a dress." It kept building from there and I did. I shaved my legs as I wanted to be lady-like, it was a prom. That was the first and last time I shaved my legs. Too much of pain to do everyday.
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      CommentAuthorsteff
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
     
    Shaving one leg carries a risk of riding in circles if it really does make you faster, mind.
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
     
    Ive often wondered about this shaving malarky, doubt leg shaving will save you any time unless you are trying to nail the manxman, but would a spot of "undercarrriage" trimming help with intermittent chafing probs...? :shocked:
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      CommentAuthorGertie
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
     
    @JP NO! If you are going to shave DON'T shave to high, ever seen someone's face after they've kissed a stubbly bloke? Now imagine your stubbly arse a few days after shaving 'snogging' your chamois and saddle for 10 hours a day.
    Leg shaving isn't to make you go fester (air isn't viscous enough for it to make a difference) the two standard excuses for leg shaving are that a) It's better when you get road-rash
    and b) It's better when your legs massaged.
    These are both true, however the main reason 'pro' cyclists do it is likely to be vanity/'everyone else does'
    I do it for reasons a+b and 'cause hairy legs look stupid between heels and a skirt.
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
     
    Nice one Gertie, but when I say undercarrriage, Im not talking legs, i mean "UNDERCARRIAGE"... mabye a deft shaving in exactly the right area... Might do the trick? Or is it better to just perserive and wash more? :shamed:
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
     
    Not that I dont wash, but...
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
     
    I suppose sweaty bollox would be the terminology.
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010 edited
     
    Or maybe my undercarrriage is disproportionately large, hence the problem... Feedback apprieciated!
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
     
    I think "pissed" is the correct terminology, plz ignore me.
    Big kisses to everyone!
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      CommentAuthorpudding
    • CommentTimeAug 20th 2010
     
    Hairs protect pores, but at speed they use tension rather than compression to drag the skin off from four layers down. I used to shave to play rugby; stopped a lot of cuts but not the really big grazes from a polite shoe-ing. You get to see all the wonderful shapes where your vastus lateralis has pushed your hamstring outwards to make a spooky slot.

    Take care with sharp objects at the unmentionables. If you take off all the protective hairs, and your spine is acting as a filth drain when you sweat, the broken skin will have all that filth going straight into a pore to make a boil. Time for nappy cream.

    Or just practice restraint from sweating; not everyone has to smell like beef after exertion.
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    " the two standard excuses for leg shaving are that a) It's better when you get road-rash
    and b) It's better when your legs massaged.
    These are both true, however the main reason 'pro' cyclists do it is likely to be vanity/'everyone else does'"


    I know the reasons, and for me its the latter. But I think my legs are too skinny and long to get away with it. Will it make me look girly?
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeAug 20th 2010
     
    I've never shaved my pins but have wondered where you stop.Do you rock the "hairy shorts"look or go the whole hog and de-pube your nutsack?
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      CommentAuthorglib
    • CommentTimeAug 20th 2010
     
    This is the first year that i have never shaved. I have pics to prove why should shave and they are nasty. I did shave the sack and crack on a few occaisons. It does feel nice for about 2 seconds. Untill you have a shiver, have to shit, and its itchy. I might shave for the racing again next time but because it does look nice and feels kinda sexy.
    My sack and crack, Maybe just a trim to exagerate the man'oods but at this stage of the game and with the missus retiring the lady shaver, I really cant be bothered anymore.
    Unless she goes on holiday and lets me play dress ups with her undies...hmmmm, fnart fnart.
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    I've been told the last thing you want to do is shave your nut sack as when that stuff grows back it iches like hell.
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      CommentAuthorGertie
    • CommentTimeAug 20th 2010
     
    It was higher than ones thighs I was talking about. :wink: maybe you should quit couriering and become a porn star if your butt-cheeks/scrotum hangs way down below your saddle/chamois padding:shades: 'fraid I'm going to have to recommend the hairy boxer short look if you're using a razor, not the sexiest but the least rash prone!
    A couple of weeks ago a nice woman came round to wax Mrs Gertie's legs and etc and I got thighs and bum waxed, which is the alternative to hairy boxer shorts, so far, it isn't growing back stubbly and itchy and feels nice;-) (you do slide around in the bath a lot more thou' without the friction provided by hair:neutral: )
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      CommentAuthorGertie
    • CommentTimeAug 20th 2010
     
    Sliding between crisp clean bed sheets with freshly shaved legs is, it has to be said, a bloody lovely feeling:smoking:
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    Someone on that London forum posted a link to a story by someone who had shaved their arse and perineum. It werent good. Infected follicles and ingrowing hair if I remember rightly.
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      CommentAuthorpudding
    • CommentTimeAug 21st 2010
     
    Well, there's a thing. All sorts of people keep telling me that painful epilator use plus exfoliation is the best long term solution. I normally use an all over electric hair trimmer; does most of the job without going down to the pores.

    I do know from experience that the baggy and tight-curved fun of the unmentionables can ve rendered hairless fir a long time with scary depilatory cream. Do think ahead and be prepared to fit the following day of hot balls into your busy social life.

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