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Women Who Write While Lying on their Stomachs. Merrill Markoe knows how impossible this is. (via Boing Boing)
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Winning by a Hair: Why Tour de France Cyclists Shave Their Legs. (via Metafilter)
I shaved my legs, too, but it wasn't for aerodynamic purposes (when you're built like I am, you've got more problems than just wind resistance!). I found that I would get more benefit from a post-ride massage (the masseuse said it was easier for her to work on me, too), and on those infrequent occasions when I did fall and incur a case of road rash, there was no hair to get ground into the wound or to hinder bandaging the injury.
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AH, The Rules. I remember the first time I encountered them I laughed. As I read beyond the first few, I realized I followed most of these, or at least I use to and laughed even more. They are just common sense. I never shaved my legs because my legs are practically hairless, but I encountered lots of cyclists who would have benefited from a razor. My competitive days are behind, but I still stick with many of the rules. A few years ago my wife amended rule #12. (optimum number of bikes is n + 1, where n = current number of bikes) to n = n.
ReplyDeleteThen there are the rules rewritten:
https://humancyclist.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/the-rules-rewritten-cycling/
Objections to “Women who write while lying on there stomachs” may be valid, I don’t know. But the pictures used don’t help Merrill’s point. A woman lying face down holding a phone, wine, or empty handed isn’t writing, she’s watching/reading which a more common activity for most people. She also claims the women with pen in hand are looking at blank pages when most of them are clearly not blank on a 24” screen. She probably was rushing hoping to sneak in a 4 day weekend this July 4th so must be forgiven in the spirit of the holiday.
ReplyDeleteOh, and unlike Jef, real men die with hairy legs.