My DH and I have had this *discussion* many times over the years and we had it just now on our way home from the park. LOL.

Every now and then, we'll pass a man on a motorcycle wearing a tank top and he has the absolute hairiest arms and shoulders... I say it is caused by the wind from riding the motorcycle. He says he is wearing the tank top because he is riding the motorcycle and wants to let it 'flow in the breeze' and he also asks why are there so many bald men on motorcycles? Whatever...

Does riding a motorcycle (with a tank top) cause hair growth?

Not sure if this would work on Myth Busters -- how would they measure shoulder hair growth? but my DH wants me to submit it! What do you think?

I'm married to a rather hairy hunky man, and he doesn't ride a motorcycle.....lol

Maybe I should make him start riding, without a helmut though, and see if that helps the hair grow back on his head!!! LOL

Hopefully, 'Hair Club for Men' isn't reading this... Maybe I may need to patent this before submitting it to Myth Busters. LOL...

Wow, I love bikers with a bald head and a nice goatee!....... but then again, I love bikers with a head of hair.. Im not to fond of the hairy , the kind ya have to comb it down on their backs hair!

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Maybe by looking at the typical rider you can get see some reasons why they are bald and hairy. The average age is late 30's, early 40's, so maybe just losing his hair and maybe has it shaved? My DH rides and he is 38 and has a shaved head and he's Italian so a little hairy. If riders were younger, I don't think they would be as hairy? Or they would have more of the peach fuzz, like on the racing bikes, that's mostly the younger crowd (but not all) and they just haven't developed that receading hair line or those hairy arms yet.

This activity attracts a lot of a certain type of person and certain type of bike attracts a certain style of rider.

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That is exactly what my DH said when I discussed it with him a few minutes ago....btw, he didn't find much humor in my implying he might need to ride w/o a helmut....lol

Why would you think that wind would cause hair growth ? If anything it would cause hair loss due to friction , exposure to pollution .

Maybe the guys who ride bikes have more testosterone
than other men ? Guys who have elevated testosterone levels would be more prone to risk taking like riding a bike.

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My guess is that the thought was similar to animals that grow a thicker coat in the winter or something like that. But I agree, the wind resistance is more likely to cause hair loss if one were riding bare literally all the time. You know, similar to how they say a bald man is quite the stud because he rubbed it all off on the headboard.

Personally, I don't think there are nearly as many hairy-backed riders of Ducatis or BMWs as there are of Harleys......similar to what flipper said.

Myth.

cj/

And PS -riding around in a tank top or wifebeater is a recipe for road rash on a spill. Not a good idea.

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I'd sure love to come up with an idea for a submission to Myth Busters. I live in a house full of boys and this is one TV show that we honestly love to watch together. It cracks us all up!

I guess it is the nature of the beast. And yes, that would be some bad road rash!

Now, thanks to all of you (LOL), DH is gloating -- telling me nanny-nanny-boo-boo... he knew all along that this can't be a myth because I am the only person in the world who believes it!

Classic 'chicken and egg... which came first?'