My body hair trimmer comes with different length guards, 1-5 mm. Where is the point of diminishing returns? Is a clean shave with a razor the best idea?

By coincidence, were you referring to “Ex GF” and “I was also at my peak fitness”? (apologies if that was too soon)

Yes you do get faster by losing .00000006 of a pound therefore your watts/kilogram get a nice boost :laughing:

w/mg - lets get serious already

No aero benefits but aero isn’t everything

Aero isn’t only for the bike :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Doesn’t it make your top tube look longer?

When Specialized’s Win Tunnel team announced that shaving your legs would save you 82 seconds over 40km, I’m pretty sure they didn’t mean your third leg.

Don’t forget to apply molten speed wax.

This post makes me smile. Maybe its a friction not an aero thing? On a side note I call my chamois cream my “Gooch Cream”, and can be heard every now and then yelling to my wife when she is on amazon “can you get me another tub of Gooch Cream please” To which the response is yelled back “do you wan…

It’s ‘scruttocks’ in this household. The baroness is horrified when I disappear to slather on the scruttock cream.

Aero benefits of shaving gooch hair?

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I got a tub of gooch cream from my mother-in-law in my Christmas stocking. Never thought twice about it but after reading through this thread… not so sure what to make of it

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