wee little humorous story

so you know us bike racer types are sort of odd.

we shave our legs, dudes shaving legs? yeah. It happens.

Esp for the super hair welsh patterning. Arms face, legs, head, densely foliculated. the rest? we'll leave the rest to those with more intimate familiarity.

But the leg thing.

Shaving. I've generally gotten it down to a at least the day before races, and sometimes during CX season 2x a week just to keep on top of it.

This year i got super lazy and just let the hair grow as long as I was wearing tights. A few times I might have gone with shorts it was warm enough but the hair on my legs precluded me from such a display. Have you ever ridden with hair on the legs? It feels FUCKING WEIRD. LIKE HOLYSHIT ALL THOSE LITTLE WIND BASTARDS ARE PULLING ON EVERY STRAND OF HAIR.  Fuck that.

So shaving is a thing.  Massive props/shoutout/thanks to Murat over with the Wee Bike shop (click over and buy something, he's a great guy and if you need something he's selling it is absolutely the right price) http://www.weebikeshop.com/ do it. M'Kay?
Anyway props shout out goes to him suggesting to use hair conditioner as shaving cream. Now I don't have the shortest of legs and i'd blow through cans of shaving cream like crazy.  And being a scientist always willing to experiment to gain knowledge. Fuck it.  Lets try it.

WOW DOES IT EVER WORK BRILLIANTLY!  OMG better than shaving cream. At least for the legs.  At the moment I'm back to nivea for men to get the wee patch of face i shave below the beard clean for fancy shin digs like the gallery opening that all but one person I know showed up to.

So yeah.

And if you shave your legs you might have a progression.  Esp if you've been shaving for a while.

I start with the right leg.  Calf first. Then a couple inches below the knee to a couple inches above the knee then I do the rest of the quad. I start pretty much in the middle and work around.

Then I go to the left leg, same progression.

Last week I depiliated Thursday morning because I forgot to on Wednesday.  Oops.

So I shaved, rode to work.  Rode home to get the TT bike and head back up to meet everyone.

On the ride home i was thinking, damn how did the left side of my right leg get so dirty....

A few pedal strokes later I realized...

oh
my
god

I never shaved all the way around. I got about 3/4 way around the leg and never finished the right quad. SERIOUSLY?

So i'm sitting there in the bathroom. Kit on ready to go, i roll kit up to the shave line and oh so everyly gently barely dry shave the parts i missed. Repeating the whole time "please no ingrown hairs, please no ingrown hairs"

so yeah.  the whole how the fuck did my leg get dirty into OMG that's leg hair. Shocking and maybe hopefully amusing...

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