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  • Are beards performance enhancing?
  • jackoinmoss
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    There was a chap on a white rimmed cross bike at top of Denshaw moor last night.

    Beard big enough to hide a badger in.

    If I grow a beard that big will I be able to ride a silly skinny bike up such a hill?

    Or had he arrived by car due to his beard weighing him down?

    franki
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    I hope not. I just shaved my little chin tuft off this morning! 😯

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    jackoinmoss
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    This guy last night had a very fine example. No way you could just shave it off. Would need at least clippers if not sheep shears.

    Wife won’t let me grow one… Have to agree with baldness as it is I would look odd.

    But can handle odd for performance gains.

    GlitterGary
    Free Member

    No, but chammy cream and shaving your legs is, apparently.

    epicyclo
    Full Member

    When I was a lad and interested in going fast and tuning my motorbike, I was told to shave the head and polish it, but to always have an air filter.

    Well now my head is shaved and polished, I have grown an air filter, but I’m still slow.

    ononeorange
    Full Member

    Yes. Fact.

    glenh
    Free Member

    GlitterGary – Member
    No, but chammy cream and shaving your legs is, apparently.

    I’ve noticed you mentioned this ‘chammy’ thing in a few threads recently, but what the hell is one?

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    I think they are. Did you notice if the chap was carrying a musette?

    pixelmix
    Free Member

    White rimmed cross bike you say? Beard big enough to hide a badger?

    http://www.great-rock.co.uk/blog/

    Paceman
    Free Member

    Definately 8)

    Mister-P
    Free Member

    Not only on the bike but in the bedroom too.

    jackoinmoss
    Free Member

    Ah,

    Now that explains why he looked familiar.

    It also explains what looked like a film crew in the lay by opposite.
    Did not make the link as there are so many other grizzly reasons for film crews and police to be up on t’ moors.

    Still won’t be allowed one though.

    psling
    Free Member

    Definitely.

    It saves having to carry energy bars with you. A good bowl of broth or muesli eaten before riding can last hours on the trail if dribbled properly…

    GlitterGary
    Free Member

    “I’ve noticed you mentioned this ‘chammy’ thing in a few threads recently, but what the hell is one?”

    It’s a sadist roadie thing, apparently, you know, for those mental cases who choose to ride on the road and post about it on a mountain bike forum?

    http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/home-brew-chammy-cream

    jimjam
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    epicyclo
    Full Member

    A beard is worth +1 on your FCN.

    Ed-O
    Free Member

    It was me and my performance was enhanced….

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    TuckerUK
    Free Member

    Are beards performance enhancing?

    Not if me mam is anything to go by!

    jackoinmoss
    Free Member

    So glad I got off the motorway…

    Also glad I didn’t actually crash or run anyone over while rubbernecking to spot what was going on.

    Hope that it didn’t take that many people to film a moon though?

    charliedontsurf
    Full Member

    yes indeed…

    Jeff flying…

    Me after cycling to begium quickly…

    Ed-O
    Free Member

    jackoinmoss – I shot myself 😉

    No connection with the media shoot that was going on up there.

    naffrider
    Free Member

    They also enhance your woman-repelling performance if you find yourself just a little bit too handsome.

    I’m very much clean shaven.

    DezB
    Free Member

    It was me and my performance was enhanced….

    how very very odd.

    charliedontsurf
    Full Member

    yeah great for repelling women… Mrs Bikemonger effin hates them.

    She once said you look like a c***, she didn’t mean to rude, it was not that I was behaving like a c***, it was just that face had started to look a bit like a fanny.

    elaineanne
    Free Member

    oooh naughty Ed… 😳 😉
    i was on that bridge on sunday….. luckily no beards were in sight that day ! 😉

    epicyclo
    Full Member

    Aye, beards repel some women, but they attract the right sort too! 🙂

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    lol @ CTB

    miketually
    Free Member

    They also enhance your woman-repelling performance if you find yourself just a little bit too handsome.

    I went almost beardless the other week, after I accidentally set the clippers on number 1. I was ordered to grow it back by the wife. I think she wants to keep me to herself.

    FOG
    Full Member

    I too was ordered to grow beard by wife on the grounds my chin was rubbish. I don’t particularly like having a beard so we have a permanent stubble compromise going. [stubble can’t be too short to avoid chafing during intimate moments

    “kissing a man without a beard is like eating porridge without salt”
    Ned Kelly’s mother said that.

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