Long hair and cycling

FredC

That's odd, the English language must have changed overnight when I was under sedation. I always thought that a bush was made out of hair, maybe it is twigs and leaves after all. Aircraft blondes, fair on top, black box on the fuselage.

closesupport

off on a tangent i see! lol.... almost sounds like the description of a boeing 747 wonder what the yanks will make of your description of a fake blonde?

FredC

Hey listen my mate MU2 arsenal nowhere,
In Moston we made Avro Lancaster bombers, and had our hair covered in local mud, and with the lovely soft water available rinsed our hair before our mums would let us into the house. You lived at the other end near Fairy Aviation, what a mane for a hairdressers. Did you spray them a pinky punky colour with streaks?
What the hell am I doing here?
Thanks for the weights site with the gifs. Great stuff, but not tiring, I loved every minute on the weights I ever spent.
Oh, yes. nearly forgot. If you lift up a ponys tail what will you find underneath?

closesupport

pretty bored! got out for an hour on the bike earlier, forced home because of poor weather, i used to love the weight training sessions i used to have, i used to train alone,then with 2 friends to help them along then with my girlfriend at the time during the weekends, i found it extremly tiring, hardly surprising i was to endure the effects of over training. then i had my own things that i used to do, running, circuits and cycling ohh and weightscircuits... ahhh and i did find this very tiring.! probably spent about 6-7hours aday acompanied with 8 hours of work. i used to try to limit longer rides to saturday and sunday mornings, before my then girlfriend would get there to go to train. needles to say that the relationship didn't last since eating out and training probably isn't the best kind of relationship.

your probably right!

Tank7404

I am a female security bike officer for a casino.

I had long hair up untill 9 months ago.

Its long since cut off due to lifestyle reasons and that it was allways a bitch to have long hair.

When I started riding motorcycles back at the tender age of 9 I had long hair, cut it to a horrible bowl cut, even then it was too much. Wearing a helmet for hockey with long was also a nasty experience.. allways getting tangled up in something.. or someone would pull on your ponytail..

Now that I have gotten a little wiser to who I am I have found that I dont need my hair to identify myself anymore and have a very close crew cut.

Slap a doo rag on it and Im good to go, winter or summer..

More in summer when I go with out any head cover, and just feel the breeze flow through my helmet cooling off the sweat...

To each thier own.. but I would never have long hair again.

Kole

HellonWheels

I went the other way...when I was young (teens to early 20s), I always had short hair, would get it cut every month at the salon. EVERY boyfriend I had told me, in one way or another, that I "should let your hair grow".

It was not until I hit 25 or so that I let my hair grow, and its been long ever since. I find it very attractive, and its one of the things I love most about myself!

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Tank7404

Yeah.. I had nice flowing curly golden locks..

But Im too much of a dyke to give a hoot about my hair.... ::shrugs::

I need my hair or lack thereof to be more utilitarian.. riding 8+ hours day... helmets get uncomfortable, sweat starts to accumulate, its a wet mess from either that or rain.. eeek! lol

And I like my brain to breath....

Kole

Conniebiker

I like it somewhere in between. I have just enough to make a pony tail through a baseball hat and not touch my collar.

jessmcph

i have long hair and i have a helmet (a giro) that allows me to pull my ponytail through. And to the other i rinse my hair after a ride and wash it every other day.

closesupport

you mean wash it

ELR

I've had both short hair and long hair since I've been cycling. At the moment it's long, and I think I like it better at this length. It's about level with maybe the second rib from the bottom (? I think that's the best way to describe.. ).


When I ride I tie it back in a lowish ponytail (but not low and loose). I have a MET stradivarius helmet which doesn't have a ponytail hole, but it's no problem I just can't have a ponytail too high. Or I plait it in one (sometimes two, depending on how cheesy I feel!) plait.

I don't like to wash my hair too frequently, pretty much every second day is about as frequent as I go unless I go swimming or surfing or something, but even then sometimes I'll just rinse it through and wait to the next day to wash it. As my hair is blonde, sometimes it can start to look a bit greasy at the roots (especially near me temples) so if it's looking that way it gets a wash. But yeh, usually every 2nd day is right for me. I ride 6-7 days a week (when in peak training mode, that includes twice a day).

I'm very much low-key when it comes to what I actually do with my hair, and I've got the worst type of hair to be low key with (not quite curly, not quite straight! I'm sure others can agree...) So I either need to try & straighten it (hmm my trusty straightening iron blew up this morning... I swear it wasn't from overuse!) or ramp up the waves/curls. But I've found curly hair isn't so great for under the helmet.

Hmmm what else can I add... (it's my second post on this forum, so I'm getting maximum value!)

I don't dye or colour my hair at all, so to those blonde comments from before, such as:
don't apply to me.

I just use blondeness to my advantage if I need a cop out excuse

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Eden

I had long hair for many years, cut it all off and swore I'd never go back...... then I started cycling a lot again. It sounds a little backwards but now my hair is back to being long and I have to say putting it back in a pony tail lets me take my helmet off and keep my dignity. As with the last poster I have that sort of semi curly hair and it can get a bit ummm poufy and unchecked at times- even if it is relatively short and 5 minutes under a helmet used to make it look like I hadn't washed it in a week.

Cat73

Just accept it. Long hair is best. My hair is long and very curly, and no matter what colour it has been (and it's been most colours available) I've had compliments. Even after wearing a helmet!

NRW77

I realiuze that I am coming to this thread late, and I am also aa "Dude" but I have long hair and hav to deal with all of these issues....As if the leg shaving wasn't enough!
I just wear my hair is aa tight bun whenever I'm riding. I tie it down close to my neck so it doesn't interfere with my helmet and it dosn't give me a problem. It probably isn't thh most "hair-healthy" way to go but it works.
As for washing, I wash my hair when (or before if I'm particularly alert) it gets shiny That's the other nice thing about a bun is that you don't have to look at your hair too much. Then again, when my brother wore is hair up for tow years told him he was just in denial and needed to cut it. He did. I think I should too....

YMMV,

NW