Shaving your legs

you are gay. Unless you're a cyclist and do it for road rash reasons, there's not reason to shave your legs.

captain G wrote:

WHY DO RUNNERS SHAVE THEIR LEGS?

They don't.

captain G wrote:

When people ask you if you shave your legs or ask you why they are shaved..how do you respond?

I've gotten so much crap from my friends from college, calling me a fag, etc.. when they see that i shave my legs...I honestly no longer no why I do it. WHY DO RUNNERS SHAVE THEIR LEGS?

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My dad said it best: " A small patch of hair, it'll make you do things you never thought you would.."

That's what it boils down to. Cyclists shave their legs for sanitary and safety reasons. When they crash, it allows them to get medical attention to the area without pain of pulling out hairs by tape or bandages.

Most runners do it because their women or most women love the look and the feel. Some women even ask men to shave their chest. (see Seinfeild episode)

Perhaps wrote:

you are gay. Unless you're a cyclist and do it for road rash reasons, there's not reason to shave your legs.

Then I guess you'd call Hall, Webb, Ritz, and a slew of other pros who shave/have shaved their legs gay too.

guys thinks it's gay, chicks do not (not the chicks I go out with anyway)

Cyclists have many reasons to shave, and they all fall under the 'general leg care' category. One of those reasons is that (pro) cyclists get a massage almost every day, and it's WAY easier to massage legs without all that hair. So, if you are a runner and get massages fequently, then I would think that would be reason enough to shave.

I started to shave a while back because I get regular deep tissue massage and and it hurt like a mother when I had hair on my legs.

My dad said it best: " A small patch of hair, it'll make you do things you never thought you would.."

Pure prescience.

Plain and simple women love it because it makes your legs look WAY better. I don't care if some other dude doesn't like it or understand why I shave my legs. The chicks I have dated dig it and that is all that matters.

As a chick, I must wholeheartedly disagree. Guys who shave their legs are a turn-off. Again, cyclists have a reasons to do so. Why do runners? To make you faster? Ha!

i shave mine because they just look better when they are shaved. Most of us runners have nice legs, they are muscular and well defined. Now would i shave my arms, no. I will leave arm shaving and such up to the body builders.

guess im gay wrote:

Perhaps wrote:

you are gay. Unless you're a cyclist and do it for road rash reasons, there's not reason to shave your legs.

Then I guess you'd call Hall, Webb, Ritz, and a slew of other pros who shave/have shaved their legs gay too.

Are you sure? Maybe you know, I'm just curious. A lot of men, maybe the majority of young men, aren't all that hairy, even on their shins. I wouldn't be able to tell whether Ryan Hall shaved his legs or not unless I got up real close and looked. Mmmm.

My swim team always shaved before a big meet--sometimes their heads too. Maybe some runners do it too, as a kind of ritual. But not constantly.

Good thread.

It doesn't have to be all or nothing. I take hair clippers to my legs, usually 1/8" or 1/4" length. That way it looks like you have a little hair on them, but it's still really short.

swimmers and cyclists shave. Just tell everyone you are training for a triathlon and then hopefully they won't beat you up.

We all love our stereotypes but as a gay man I personally prefer my man's legs hairy! And I actually don't know any gay men that do shave their legs.

I'm just naturally hairless so I don't need to worry.

if you ever hear a cyclist tell you they shave for road rash reasons, don't trust too much else they say unless their arms are shaven too. I've crashed a few times in races, and the scrapes on hips/arms/elbows are way worse in terms of total area than legs. Maybe knees get chewed up, but they aren't that hairy anyway. If they are really that worried about the pain from removing a bandage, they probably shouldn't be cycling. If they say it's for "sanitary" reasons and they hairs can cause infection, than ever 12 year old in the world would have shaved legs, because they get scraped up all the time.

I started because guys on my team played up the road rash theory, but after a couple months I realized, whether everyone else thinks so or not, it's pretty pointless. I do it solely because I think it looks better than my naturally overly hairy legs. If there were some easy way to get an in-between I'd probably do that, but I honestly have grown accustomed to it and do like the look with my toned calves.

guess im gay wrote:

Perhaps wrote:

you are gay. Unless you're a cyclist and do it for road rash reasons, there's not reason to shave your legs.

Then I guess you'd call Hall, Webb, Ritz, and a slew of other pros who shave/have shaved their legs gay too.

yeah webb definately shaves his legs

Jacky wrote:

guys thinks it's gay, chicks do not (not the chicks I go out with anyway)

i think it is especially gay when a guy runner shaves his legs. im not going to knock the pros for doing it, but it really annoys me when college guys who arent amazing do it. i think it takes away from a guys masculinity and i am personally pretty turned off by it. The girls you date are probably lying