Why does my husband shave his legs?

[jelee1311]

I know why I do but why does my cyclist husband shavve his legs. He has never given me an explanitation. But when he first asked me how I told him the look would be better without the goatee.

[m.eliza]

He is more aerodynamic with shaved legs. Also leg hair can cause uncomfortable chafing on longer rides when rubbing against his shorts and saddle. Not sure about this one, but maybe it keeps him cooler during hot rides in the summer?

[jessmarimba]

less hair makes road rash easier to clean, too.

[Becky]

less hair makes road rash easier to clean, too.

This.

[OakLeaf]

Less hair = less road rash. Hair will actually rip the skin off your flesh where bare skin has at least a chance of sliding.

[Zen]

So he looks better in pantyhose

[FunSize]

It sucks when their legs look better than ours....

Yeah... when you fall and get road rash in a race the medic comes with a really abrasive brush thing to clean the gravel out of the wound. If there is hair on the legs.... that'll be ripped off too. So, remove the hair first and its easier to clean the wound without making it worse.

[malkin]

Easier for sunscreen and also if there are gnatty bugs around.

[Zen]

Yeah... when you fall and get road rash in a race the medic comes with a really abrasive brush thing to clean the gravel out of the wound.

What EMT would do that? The Marquis de Sade?
It gets washed out with a sterile solution.

[moonfroggy]

i am for the first time in a decade pondering shaving my legs, road rash with leg hair sounds scary.

[zoom-zoom]

Easier for sunscreen and also if there are gnatty bugs around.

This is the primary reason my hubby does this...and he did this before he had a melanoma removed from his arm. He will shave arms and legs in the Summer. Anything to make it easier to protect his skin from further cancer.

[Irulan]

when you fall and get road rash in a race the medic comes with a really abrasive brush thing to clean the gravel out of the wound.

What EMT would do that? The Marquis de Sade?
It gets washed out with a sterile solution.

A good one. I've been scrubbed out after mountain bike crashes. My son hit the gravel on a road and was scrubbed out by an MD at urgent care. I've seen it done at NORBA races. Sometimes solution isn't enough if you've got gravel/dirt/grit really ground in.

[jessmarimba]

No one at the hospital cleaned any of the scrapes I got during my last wreck until I was able to shower for the first time 6 days later. I've got a couple dirt scars now where the skin grew around it.

I was actually pretty surprised - I know they had more important things to worry about, but I figured open uncleaned wounds would be an infection risk.

[nikkoblu2]

A good one. I've been scrubbed out after mountain bike crashes. My son hit the gravel on a road and was scrubbed out by an MD at urgent care. I've seen it done at NORBA races. Sometimes solution isn't enough if you've got gravel/dirt/grit really ground in.

Really interesting you say that. When I was about 11-12 years old I was running around the track at school and fell. My knee was all messed up and had all kinds of gravel and grit mixed in with blood. They took me to the school nurse and she wasn't around so the school vice-principal came and treated me. To this day I have little grey marks in my skin where the gravel was never cleaned out. What a shame...I could have been the next leggy supermodel.

Oh...Jelee..just curious...does he shave the whole leg? Thigh and calf?

[jelee1311]

The whole leg. Yesterday he said as he was in his shorts to go ride that he did not understand how people could stand shorts when they had 2 week stubble. Sucks to be him and I do not think it makes him faster