When I first became a dedicated cyclist, as a teenager in the mid-1970s, I knew some men who wouldn't ride because they didn't want to shave their legs.
I would explain that racers did it because, they believed, it gave them an aerodynamic advantage. Whether or not there is such a benefit, there was another reason for racers to depilate their limbs: It made cleaning and dressing wounds easier. But even when I had pretensions to racing, I never believed that it was necessary to shave if one simply wanted to ride a bike.
My body hair has always been so light and fine, and grown so slowly, that almost nobody can tell whether or not I've shaved. Today I can go for months without putting a blade to my calves and shins: From what my doctor has told me and what I've heard and read in other places, my hormones and surgery have slowed the growth, which was always slow anyway.
But if you see someone with thickets of coarse hair on his limbs, there is at least one thing you can assume about him:
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