Are 18" calves considered big?

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  • Sailorchick
    Sailorchick Posts: 202
    I have 16'' calves which for a girl is stupidly large. Only place I can get knee high boots from is Evans, not helped by only having size 4 feet! (Tested it in Brantano's once and size 8 normal people boots will just fit my calves) Skinny jeans just not happening here!

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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    cyclingprop wrote:
    hahah just measured my calves. 20"...
    Which would be impressive if not for Sailorchick's size 4 feet on 16" calves...
    I've downgraded mine from 18 to 16.5 as it turns out headphone flex, A4 paper and guesswork is not what the LHC use to take measurements.
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  • lockstock666
    lockstock666 Posts: 131
    Quick measure: 18" calves. I've always considered them to be big. But since I started cycling they look like two great hunks of steak strapped to my legs. Always had a 32" waist. My biceps are pretty puny at 13.5" despite my best efforts in the gym.
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    15"calves. 24 "thighs. 6' 2" tall. Just under 12.5 stone.

    I've never been accused of being fat.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Meh! 18'' calves, bah... that's not even twice as long as my Smith and Wesson.

    Yeah, I win.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,354
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    15"calves. 24 "thighs. 6' 2" tall. Just under 12.5 stone.

    I've never been accused of being fat.
    That all seems perfectly normal to me.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Veronese68 wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    15"calves. 24 "thighs. 6' 2" tall. Just under 12.5 stone.

    I've never been accused of being fat.
    That all seems perfectly normal to me.

    I've also never been accused of being perfectly normal.
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Hidden under the fur!
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,354
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    15"calves. 24 "thighs. 6' 2" tall. Just under 12.5 stone.

    I've never been accused of being fat.
    That all seems perfectly normal to me.

    I've also never been accused of being perfectly normal.
    Well, you're as normal as I am. It must be everybody else.
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  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    edited April 2013
    dhope wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    Ghey!
    Go on, get the picture out, you know you're dying to.

    I'll do it! Any excuse. Here's one I prepared earlier:

    sexymegameversion.jpg

    Got me an trophy, that one. (Runner-up, sadly, but a trophy nonetheless).

    And as a Brucie bonus, here's another:

    rowing.gif

    Look at me go!
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,052
    I worry about you lot I really do :lol:

    no really :roll:
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  • stu-bim
    stu-bim Posts: 384
    No AC in work the past two days so I made a stand and have been wearing shorts. No comments about unusually large calves, so 17.3'' is not unusual. Sweating continuously for two days is.
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