I can’t believe someone made a documentary out of this. But I’m happy they did. MAMIL’s are the oft-ridiculed cycling world sub-culture characterized by men in bright-and-tight lycra who speed around ...

Like most kids, I was into biking – but for me that involved trying to jump over obstacles and smashing them up, really. By my late teens I’d pretty much given up travelling on two wheels – then in ...

Move over Yuppies and Dinks, here come the Mamils. Britain’s middle-aged men in lycra are a growing group of sought-after consumers who rely on spandex for comfort, carbon fiber for strength and as ...

Women cyclists should have slow lanes to ‘pootle along’ in to stop them being intimidated by lycra-clad men tearing through towns and cities, a former Labour minister has claimed. Meg Hillier said ...

Yet this cycling obsession isn’t just a modern mid-life crisis. Our new research has found that Mamils aren’t cycling primarily to relive their youth or prove they can still compete against other men.