Best method of removing hairs on legs?
DoubleTop
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Last year I shaven my legs with a shaver, got razor rash. Not nice.
Next week I start my TT series. I am consider not bothering this year, but if I did what advice can people offer about hairless legs?
DT
Next week I start my TT series. I am consider not bothering this year, but if I did what advice can people offer about hairless legs?
DT
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ligher fuel and a match..??0
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Pliers and or vice grips. Duct tape if you must.
Dennis Noward0 -
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If you're a hairy bastard (like me) try using veet first. Get's the main of it off, although you might need to go over with a razor again. Make sure you use plenty of foam and a decent razor mind. Then just moisturise them all the time. I try and do it before bed/after showering, and it seems to work fine."A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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er, newbie question i am sure...but can i ask why?0
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JoeyHalloran wrote:er, newbie question i am sure...but can i ask why?
Because you've spent all winter training hard and you want to show everyone how defined your muscles are
"A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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ShockedSoShocked wrote:Because you've spent all winter training hard and you want to show everyone how defined your muscles areBut honestly, don't get overly bothered about muscle definition.
:P :P :P
I've never understood the whole shaving thing... I was out in shorts the other day with my gorilla-style hairy legs and the super-shaved girlymen were giving me funny looks and telling me to shave!
Some were getting really snobby about it! :? I stopped at the lights the other day beside a roadie who had fake tan on his freshly-shaved oily legs! :? What's the deal with that? 
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At least my razors last twice as long nowdays
vanity is one reason.
herd mentality/ being part of the crowd
ease for regular massage is another (sometimes soigneurs refuse to deal with hairy or spikey legs - I know mine has sent professionals away when they turned up and hadn't shaved for a while)
dealing with scrapes and grazes after crashes is another (I can definitely say from experience that you'll be glad to have hairless skin when getting grazes attended to). much easier to clean and the plastic skin stuff you use to heal them up requires shaved skin anyway.
it's more aero
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I guess if i had regular massages and planned on crashing it would be worthwhile...although now i have said that i AM going to crash so i better HAD shave my legs :?0
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Bhima wrote:ShockedSoShocked wrote:Because you've spent all winter training hard and you want to show everyone how defined your muscles areBut honestly, don't get overly bothered about muscle definition.
:P :P :P
I've never understood the whole shaving thing... I was out in shorts the other day with my gorilla-style hairy legs and the super-shaved girlymen were giving me funny looks and telling me to shave! Some were getting really snobby about it! :? I stopped at the lights the other day beside a roadie who had fake tan on his freshly-shaved oily legs! :? What's the deal with that?
Do as I say, not as I do :P Anyway, having un-shaven legs is almost as big a faux pas as racing on a dirty bike.
It gets me leg rubs off the girlfriend too, always a bonus!"A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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ShockedSoShocked wrote:Bhima wrote:ShockedSoShocked wrote:Because you've spent all winter training hard and you want to show everyone how defined your muscles areBut honestly, don't get overly bothered about muscle definition.
:P :P :P
I've never understood the whole shaving thing... I was out in shorts the other day with my gorilla-style hairy legs and the super-shaved girlymen were giving me funny looks and telling me to shave! Some were getting really snobby about it! :? I stopped at the lights the other day beside a roadie who had fake tan on his freshly-shaved oily legs! :? What's the deal with that?
Do as I say, not as I do :P Anyway, having un-shaven legs is almost as big a faux pas as racing on a dirty bike.
It gets me leg rubs off the girlfriend too, always a bonus!
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I disagree!
Unshaven legs and mud all over your bike is more masculine! If you've got a clean bike, you've not been training hard enough. 8)
...and if someone decided not to take my money for a massage because i'd not shaven, i'd think they were immature. Garbage-men don't complain about the state of people's wheelie-bins and dentists don't complain about bad breath! They just get on with the job! :roll:0 -
Look, hairy legs + lycra = w@nker. Ok? End of.-- Dirk Hofman Motorhomes --0
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Bhima wrote:I disagree!
Unshaven legs and mud all over your bike is more masculine!
You're not a mountain biker. Show some discipline man!
But as for your thread on muscle definition, you will really notice the difference if you do shave (I thought you already had)."A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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Falling off your bike when your going really fast is a sure fire way of quick hair removel.
And it's eco friendly, no sprays or gels!!chris0 -
this is i how i do it, to get the initial hair of (the top coat) if you have a pair of hair clippers wahl etc use them with no hair blade attached ie: 2/3/4 just the bare blade, this will take off most of the top hairs, when done use a shaving foam or similar and use a razor to shave off the remaning.
i find this method to work very well, and if you have light coloured hairs on your legs the clipper cut could be enough.0 -
Alex_Simmons/RST wrote:At least my razors last twice as long nowdays
Ha! I just laughed far too much at that.
I'm in the hairy club, but I'm not hairy and blonde in colour so nobody would notice anyway...0 -
I decided to go 'hairless' after 7 tears of 'hairy legged' bike riding. After reading numerous threads on this topic, I plumped for full leg waxing. I have just this last hour returned after 1hr 20 mins of pain and have had a lay down in some loose fitting shorts. I'm hoping the plucked chicken look is going to be big this season.
Chose waxing because I have not got the time to be shaving my legs every 3 days. Waxing means you can go longer before the need to rewax (4-5 weeks).
The woman doing it reckons it is better to wax legs that have not been shaved before (I can't remember the reason now, the blur of pain erased memories of much of what was discussed).
Apparently it should be less painful next time as the hairs won't be as long or coarse. The more you wax the less your hairs grow back. Also it tends not to itch when the hair starts growing back again.
She asked why cyclist shaved their legs. Gave all the usual blarney but admitted it was mainly 'cos that's what serious road cyclists do and I was following suit (baa..baa).0 -
I once relied on my hairs to give my legs much needed extra girth till one day I looked down through the pristine water of the local swimming pool to witness what could only be described as a pair of sea anemones involved in a feeding frenzy.But as for your thread on muscle definition, you will really notice the difference if you do shave (I thought you already had).
Fortunatley I have ridden a bit of definition into them since then so now I choose the clippered route, looks neat, works just as well on my MTB and I've no worries about where to actually stop shaving :shock:.........all
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There are 2 very good reasons to shave your legs... 1) Lycra and hairy legs just looks daft and 2) Everybody else does it.
I always find it very amusing that the only place on this earth where the man who doesn't shave his legs is a source of derision is in cycling cirlces though."In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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I also shave my eyebrows and pluck my eyelids as it helps with aerodynamics.0
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According to my wife the way to go with leg shaving is to use hair CONDITIONER(not shampoo) to shave with. Cheaper than shave cream and works better. I can vouch for this.
Dennis Noward0 -
Wasn't sure if I'd bother shaving the legs this year but took the leg warmers off for the first time this morning and hairy legs plus lycra does look bloody awful. I reckon hair removing cream is the easiest way to do it first off and then just run a razor over them every so often for the rest of the year - no need to do it every three days it's not as if you are drag act - every 10 days or 2 weeks seems to work fine. I'd advise against shaving if the hair isn't already short though - my first attempt a few years ago ended up looking like I was into self harm rather than cycling.
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Always shaved my legs, but this year I'm going down the local beauticians and having them WAXED by some right tasty bird. 8) :shock:Tail end Charlie
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Frank the tank wrote:Always shaved my legs, but this year I'm going down the local beauticians and having them WAXED by some right tasty bird. 8) :shock:
I tried this once. And maybe it's becasue I live in a rural area where metrosexuality has never really caught on but the lady on the desk told me "We're not that sort of establishment".
God knows what she thought was going on, but even my explanations of the rudiments of supply and demand in a market economy failed."In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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I some are worried about being/looking masculine with their hairy legs whilst wearing LYCRA. Just shave confident that you are masculine!
Alex, you leave your carbon leg hairy?
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Tom Butcher wrote:... just run a razor over them every so often for the rest of the year - no need to do it every three days it's not as if you are drag act - every 10 days or 2 weeks seems to work fine...
I guess it depends on the colour and thickness of your hair.
After 4-5 days my legs start looking like a pair of porcupines. So it's twice a week shaving for me. There's no way I could leave it for 2 weeks - especially since the sole reason why I do it is vanity.
By the way, i am not a drag act, but I am thinking of starting one up. Might as well get full value out of my smooth pins.0 -
I keep mine shaved all year round, no longer bother stopping after the last hill climb.
It just looks much better (in my opinion obviously).
I am quite vain, but I do like looking down at my legs in the summer when they're all tanned and well defined. Looks sooooo much better than a hair covered leg.
When I first started racing i was still playing amateur football as well, so there was a cross over in august / Sept when my lall the footie lads used to take the mick in the changing rooms.0 -
celbianchi wrote:I keep mine shaved all year round, no longer bother stopping after the last hill climb.
It just looks much better (in my opinion obviously).
I am quite vain, but I do like looking down at my legs in the summer ..........
Really bad idea. A lot of young kids in our club have a tendency to do the same thing
once their legs start sprouting a bit of muscle. Seems like I've yelled at more than a few of them, at club races, to "watch the road, not your legs". Your legs will be there when you are done. If you must look, look then.
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dennisn wrote:celbianchi wrote:I keep mine shaved all year round, no longer bother stopping after the last hill climb.
It just looks much better (in my opinion obviously).
I am quite vain, but I do like looking down at my legs in the summer ..........
Really bad idea. A lot of young kids in our club have a tendency to do the same thing
once their legs start sprouting a bit of muscle. Seems like I've yelled at more than a few of them, at club races, to "watch the road, not your legs". Your legs will be there when you are done. If you must look, look then.
Dennis Noward
Haha, I don't look at them when i'm racing, the chewing of the stem prevents me from doing that. But you know, when you're having a nice little training ride and the suns out.
Come on Dennis - I bet you have a sneaky admiring glance at your pins!0
