Reply to: Cyclists - shave your legs

[Jubber]

Waxing is the key

Back, Sack and Crack (apparently)

[OwlHoot]

I think you're supposed to shave before you set off, not while cycling.

Wouldn't be easier just to slap on a load of Immac before setting off?

[d000hg]

Not so sure about genital shaving though. Can get quite painful on long rides.

I think you're supposed to shave before you set off, not while cycling.

[EternalOptimist]

Shaving ones undercarriage gives to closer fit to the seat, crucial in competition.
It's the job of the secreatary of the club to inspect the seats closely

'especially the ladies team. And that your honour , is my defence. '

[OwlHoot]

Not so sure about genital shaving though. Can get quite painful on long rides.

Flip me, I know some cyclists are dead keen, but shaving your genitals off seems a bit extreme.

Mind you, I can see how it would make a guy slightly more aerodynamic, and every second counts.

[BrilloPad]

Not so sure about genital shaving though. Can get quite painful on long rides.

[Mich the Tester]

When I was a teenager I came off my push bike while bombing down a hill in Southern Italy, and slid along the road for a few feet.

With the friction, and the baking heat of the road, a full box of matches in my jeans pocket (a small pocket right round the front, rather than a side pocket) burst into flames and practically exploded.

Now that's pain!

MTFU!

[OwlHoot]

One minor point; I crashed in the velodrome at about 50 kph, having not shaved my legs, the first time I rode there. I learnt my lesson. Some hairs got trapped in the little gaps between the boardings as I slid to a halt; yeeooowwww!!!

When I was a teenager I came off my push bike while bombing down a hill in Southern Italy, and slid along the road for a few feet.

With the friction, and the baking heat of the road, a full box of matches in my jeans pocket (a small pocket right round the front, rather than a side pocket) burst into flames and practically exploded.

Now that's pain!

[Mich the Tester]

there is feeling and tolerating

and then

there is feeling and wimpering

there is your mars, venus differential.

Then there is feeling, shouting 'f**k that hurts' and then getting back on the bike.

Miss Pendleton was quite good at that. But then somehow she spontaneously burst out blubbing about the pressure and the journalists and all those nasty people saying nasty things, having shown herself to be really quite 'ard when it comes to physical pain.

[Dallas]

there is feeling and tolerating

and then

there is feeling and wimpering

there is your mars, venus differential.

[vetran]

You don't know how it feels.

It hurt even more than Manflu.

BBC NEWS | Health | Women feel pain more than men

Women are bigger wimps than men when it comes to pain, research suggests, contrary to the popular notion that the reverse is true.

WMSS

[Mich the Tester]

MTFU.

You don't know how it feels.

It hurt even more than Manflu.

[mudskipper]

One minor point; I crashed in the velodrome at about 50 kph, having not shaved my legs, the first time I rode there. I learnt my lesson. Some hairs got trapped in the little gaps between the boardings as I slid to a halt; yeeooowwww!!!

MTFU.

[Dallas]

Nice,

that is probably a faster therefore a less painful option than an epilator

[Mich the Tester]

One minor point; I crashed in the velodrome at about 50 kph, having not shaved my legs, the first time I rode there. I learnt my lesson. Some hairs got trapped in the little gaps between the boardings as I slid to a halt; yeeooowwww!!!