Male Cyclists

Reasons given for leg shaving

1. Massages: This is the most popular reason given. Stiff and overworked muscles must be massaged. Leg hair gets tangled in the process, leading to unwelcome pulling of the hair.
2. Easy Cleaning: It is much easier to wipe mud, road tar and chain oil from hairless legs than hairy legs. Why bother?
3. Aerodynamics: Wow! Really? Didn't know you cycled that fast! I can understand that the wind can become a little bit irrating on leg hair. Without hair you "feel" faster.
4. Tight Pants: Cycling pants are skin-tight and pulls on upper leg hair. Cyclists claim that this can lead to ingrown hair. Lycra cycling pants help sweat to evaporate faster. Some cyclists even do genital hair removal.
5. Road Burn: When male cyclists fall, large areas of skin are grazed off. Huge plasters and bandages are applied that pulls painfully on hair when it is pulled off. That makes some sense.
6. Infection: Presence of hair during a road burn can lead to infection. It is easier to clean gravel out of a graze without hair in the way. Really?

Real reasons for shaving their legs

1. Aesthetics: The truth at last! Vanity. Narcissism. Muscled legs look much, much nicer without hair. Cyclists just want to show off their great leg muscle definition.
2. Group Dynamics: All male cyclists do it, therefore newbies should also. Peer group pressure. If you don't, you won't fit in with the serious cycling group.
3. Dedication: You want to advertise your serious dedication to cycling. Cyclists with unshaven legs simply cannot be as dedicated as shaven cyclists.
4. Hero Worship: All professional cyclists shave their legs. You want to emulate your heroes. Naturally you assume they have a good reason for doing it.
5. The Norm: Clean shaven legs is just as much part of the "cycling uniform" as the funny helmet they wear.

Other hair removal methods

The photograph is of a cyclist after a fall during a race.

Of course shaving isn't the only hair removal method available to cyclists.

Men just prefer shaving, because it is fast and easy.

Some cyclists understand that several weeks of hairlessness can be achieved with waxing.

But men can't stand the pain.

I think pre-contest shaving is all part of the psyching-up process.

The cyclists get themselves psychologically prepared for the competition of the following day.

You now know which reasons male cyclists give for shaving their legs. Newbie cyclists' next questions are invariably why and how should the hair be removed.

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