We’re heaping coals on the Giro frenzy that’s burning in all corners of the Cycling world by issuing the second installment of the monthly BigRingRiding Sur la Plaque series while at the same time kicking off the Six Days of the Giro series where we’ll post six articles on the subject of this, the best Grand Tour of the year.
Yours in Cycling, Frank
IT’S GIRO TIME, IT’S SPRING. COME CORRECT ON Rule #33 PEOPLE, OR YOU’RE LETTING THE FUCKING SIDE DOWN. GINO AND FAUSTO WOULD NOT BE HAPPY.
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I shave by scraping a brick down my legs until all the hair is gone or I can't see any hair for the blood. Rather than use some fancy smelly ointment to sooth the shave I just get my wolf to bite me in the face to take my mind off it. Once I'm done I ride 500km to my work as a lumberjack.
@ChrisO
Yep, that's my plan as well. I don't think she can resist for long, and I know she'll give in eventually. It takes two to tango, after all.
@PeakInTwoYears
Nice, I like that plan, I'm just not sure if she'll even let me get away with 'for big races only' - the reaction so far has been quite definite on any future shaving activity - or the lack thereof.
No-one ever said the life of the Velominati was an easy one.
@Fausto
Well. If she's really being such a dictatorial pragmatical creature, I must agree with @ChrisO and (with all respect and in a spirit of good will) suggest that you grow a pair and shave your fucking legs. At some point, it ceases to be about leg hair, and if she can dictate your personal grooming practices now, just wait and see how much sway she'll have once you've bred with her. I could tell you stories, from experience, that would make the rest of your hair fall right out from sheer terror.
@Fausto I got the same response from Mrs Chris when I first went Rule 33 compliant. I've got more velominippers than is is strictly necessary so she was in a strong position. A withholding notice was issued and I complied with that instead.
The guns were glorious for a few brief days.
I'm now compliant. No complaints from the VH whatsoever. Now I need sun.
It's an interesting business, this VMH/Rule #33 topic. Been married twice, got lots of static from the first wife about various things but never about Rule #33. Current and final and perfect spouse digs the aesthetic and likes the guns compliant. Just lucky, I guess.
My only hesitation about regaining compliance was my lack of fitness when I got back on the bike at a certain age. Fat guns = /gag/. But I took the hint, here, and let compliance motivate me to earn the silky smoothness. Making steady progress and hit my weight goal for the end of April.
@JACD214 Yes, now for the cultivation of this year's tan lines.
I get to go out on the bike for hours any day I like, go climbing in the Alps, jump off cliffs with the paraglider, dissapear for days at a time in the hills, but M. Strathlubnaig draws a line in the sand at #33 for some reason. UN peacekeeping troops would need to be dropped in I suspect.
Anyway, shaved legs dont look so good with a kilt, and summer only lasts a week or two here besides.
@strathlubnaig Ha, I made sure I stopped shaving before my brother's wedding, kilts need hairy legs.