Why do so many Pro Racing Cyclists now have Beards ?

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Anthony.R.Brown wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 5:38pm We only have to look at Nature to get the answer! the fastest animals regarding less Drag are the Cheetah with micro short hair,and the Dolphin with no hair! :smile:
Don't cheetahs have whiskers, like other cats?
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Would you permit a handlebar moustache?
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I hpoe Alaphillipe doesn't shave his!
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Anthony.R.Brown wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 5:26pm
Maillot Rouge wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 5:18pm
Anthony.R.Brown wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 5:14pm


Exactly! reduce the Drag and it just might help! :)
I think this is actually a spoof thread.
Unless the OP thinks being clean shaven can shave 4 or 5 hours off Cavendish’s overall time over three weeks?
So your expecting Cavendish to lose by 4 or 5 hours over three weeks ? and if he shaved it would make no difference ? in the Time trials he has done ? or will do ?
Look at all the TDF Cavendish has ridden in.Even in his prime.
Look how far behind the winner he was.
You either don’t understand racing or this is a troll post.
He is currently in 147th place 27 minutes behind the yellow jersey and we’re only on stage 6!
Once in the mountains he could lose 20+ minutes a day easily.
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Mike Sales wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 5:40pm
Anthony.R.Brown wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 5:38pm We only have to look at Nature to get the answer! the fastest animals regarding less Drag are the Cheetah with micro short hair,and the Dolphin with no hair! :smile:
Don't cheetahs have whiskers, like other cats?
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Maillot Rouge wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 6:00pm He is currently in 147th place 27 minutes behind the yellow jersey and we’re only on stage 6!
And he won two of the six so lost all that time in four stages.
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Jdsk wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 6:08pm
Mike Sales wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 5:40pm
Anthony.R.Brown wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 5:38pm We only have to look at Nature to get the answer! the fastest animals regarding less Drag are the Cheetah with micro short hair,and the Dolphin with no hair! :smile:
Don't cheetahs have whiskers, like other cats?
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It's not a problem for air to flow through whiskers! what you don't want is a mass of hair that traps the air from flowing,like we are seeing with some of the Pro riders :( next they will stop shaving their legs as well etc. and we will end up with apes on bikes! :(


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The photograph of the cheetah doesn't only show whiskers. The animal is covered in hair and the rim lighting shows how it sticks up all over the place.

I have no idea how this can be used as evidence that a beard necessarily increases drag.

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Jdsk wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 6:55pm The photograph of the cheetah doesn't only show whiskers. The animal is covered in hair and the rim lighting shows how it sticks up all over the place.

I have no idea how this can be used as evidence that a beard necessarily increases drag.

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But it would not be a problem if he wore a Skin suit ? :) which would be at least another 5mph :)
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Think it would have to wear a cat suit :D
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Clean shaven makes a person go faster in all Sports!...

Karsten Warholm breaks oldest world record in men's track weeks before Olympics...

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AND....Why do so many older men grow beards??

Blokes go through their whole lives clean shaven. THEN hit (say) sixty and they just HAVE to grow a drippy goatee/full set/designer stubble/utter mess or whatever on their chops. Could someone who has done this please reply and explain. Ta.

Caveat. I'm sixty three, clean shaven and always will be.
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Tiberius wrote: 2 Jul 2021, 5:26pm AND....Why do so many older men grow beards??

Blokes go through their whole lives clean shaven. THEN hit (say) sixty and they just HAVE to grow a drippy goatee/full set/designer stubble/utter mess or whatever on their chops. Could someone who has done this please reply and explain. Ta.

Caveat. I'm sixty three, clean shaven and always will be.
I prefer having a beard.
I feel no need to explain further.
It is, after all, the natural state of the adult male, so what needs explanation is shaving.
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It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
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Mike Sales wrote: 1 Jul 2021, 5:53pm I hope Alaphillipe doesn't shave his!
I hope he does. He always looks to me like he's missing his horns...
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Mike Sales wrote: 2 Jul 2021, 5:49pm
Tiberius wrote: 2 Jul 2021, 5:26pm AND....Why do so many older men grow beards??

Blokes go through their whole lives clean shaven. THEN hit (say) sixty and they just HAVE to grow a drippy goatee/full set/designer stubble/utter mess or whatever on their chops. Could someone who has done this please reply and explain. Ta.

Caveat. I'm sixty three, clean shaven and always will be.
I prefer having a beard.
I feel no need to explain further.
It is, after all, the natural state of the adult male, so what needs explanation is shaving.
Having a beard wasn't my point.

Were you clean shaven most of your adult life then, when you hit your later years, feel compelled to grow facial hair - like so many older men?

It was the 'only growing it when you got older' that was my point.
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