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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #25 on: 07 February, 2020, 12:55:32 pm »
I read somewhere that for best aero you should shave a strip down the front of your legs, leaving the sides and back hairy. It's to do with laminar airflow. Or perhaps it was to shave a strip down the sides, leaving the front hairy. Either way, it's a bold look and would give you a strong psychological advantage on the start line.

You'd have to be very careful with the angles when transferring this to arms. Faces should be easier but... I think the OP has a beard.
I think i heard Dave Brailsford suggesting a leg mohican was more aero. I just assumed he was taking the piss.

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rob

Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #26 on: 07 February, 2020, 01:09:03 pm »
I read somewhere that for best aero you should shave a strip down the front of your legs, leaving the sides and back hairy. It's to do with laminar airflow. Or perhaps it was to shave a strip down the sides, leaving the front hairy. Either way, it's a bold look and would give you a strong psychological advantage on the start line.

You'd have to be very careful with the angles when transferring this to arms. Faces should be easier but... I think the OP has a beard.
I think i heard Dave Brailsford suggesting a leg mohican was more aero. I just assumed he was taking the piss.

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I've seen time triallists with shaved legs but 'trip strips' taped to their legs.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/product-news/why-leaving-hair-on-your-legs-could-help-you-go-faster-186135
 

Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #27 on: 07 February, 2020, 01:15:25 pm »
It's probably more to do with creating turbulent flow that adheres less to the leg and has a lower drag.
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ian

Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #28 on: 07 February, 2020, 01:53:51 pm »
I thought it was supposed to make things look bigger.

Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #29 on: 07 February, 2020, 04:03:30 pm »
In the context, there may be one or two here who might appreciate the information that my brother, Esau, is a hairy man. No? oh well.

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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #30 on: 07 February, 2020, 04:08:18 pm »
Will you sell your birthright for a mess of potage?
My brother's called Jacob...

Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #31 on: 07 February, 2020, 04:16:42 pm »
Would the Twitter version be a potted message?

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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #32 on: 07 February, 2020, 04:44:53 pm »
 ;D

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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #33 on: 07 February, 2020, 10:26:22 pm »
In the context, there may be one or two here who might appreciate the information that my brother, Esau, is a hairy man. No? oh well.

You are a right smoothie then...
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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #34 on: 08 February, 2020, 12:41:41 pm »
I use Gillette venus shave from the neck down, but not my arms

Phil W

Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #35 on: 09 February, 2020, 12:50:59 pm »
I thought it was supposed to make things look bigger.

Jimmy Hill without his beard, what do you reckon?


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ian

Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #37 on: 14 February, 2020, 12:43:10 pm »
It sort of makes sense as there are regular consumables like blades and shaving gumpf.

That said, I bought about 5 million old fashioned double-edged blades back when I used to shave every day (and they'd last a month then), so now I've a Beard of Authority℠ each lasts about six months. On that basis, I'm set for this life, the next, and the one after that. Unless I come back as a cockroach, in which case I won't bother shaving.

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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #38 on: 14 February, 2020, 04:37:30 pm »
What if you come back as a woolly mammoth?
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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #39 on: 14 February, 2020, 06:37:59 pm »
I read somewhere that for best aero you should shave a strip down the front of your legs, leaving the sides and back hairy. It's to do with laminar airflow. Or perhaps it was to shave a strip down the sides, leaving the front hairy. Either way, it's a bold look and would give you a strong psychological advantage on the start line.

You'd have to be very careful with the angles when transferring this to arms. Faces should be easier but... I think the OP has a beard.

I'm fairly sure I know where that came from, and it was a joke.  Shaved legs do test faster than fully hairy though.

Like Rob, when I'm racing my arms and calves are covered.  Just shaving the knees would definitely look dodgy though.

ian

Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #40 on: 14 February, 2020, 08:02:43 pm »
What if you come back as a woolly mammoth?

I reckon I'm just going to go with it.

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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #41 on: 15 February, 2020, 12:26:32 am »
What if you come back as a woolly mammoth?

He'd clean a car...
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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #42 on: 15 February, 2020, 08:23:36 am »
;D

Esau: bonked out hunter loses rational thought for FOOD!

Careful Helly, you’ll end up in one of the diet wars threads

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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #43 on: 15 February, 2020, 09:37:25 am »
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

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Re: Shaving Your Sticky Out Bits
« Reply #44 on: 15 February, 2020, 05:10:01 pm »