Who Here Is A MAMIL?

Pufftmw

Read this article on the BBC Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10965608

I would say that I am middle-aged @ 45 and with my recent new purchase of a roadbike for commuting, I donned some lycra shorts so I guess I could quallify but as a regular biker/commuter I feel that the anacronym is slightly unfair.

Anyone own up to being one?

soundninjauk

Being that I'm 25 and lycra free, I think I'm safe. While I am relatively new to this whole cycle commuting thing, I've been MTBing for years previous so that also counts in my favour I think.

Agent57

Given the number of men aged 35-44 who are buying fancy-pants road racing machines, is this a 21st Century mid-life crisis? Has the silence of skinny tyres and carbon fibre framesets replaced the thunderous noise of motorbikes?

I've been riding road bikes in lycra since I was about 16, some 25 years ago. So it's nothing to do with any sort of "mid-life crisis" as far as I'm concerned. As for being a "mamil", being 41 I don't think I qualify. I don't think of 41 as "middle-aged". Clearly, it's not young, but when I think of middle-aged men, I think of someone around 50.

I did get my motorbike a few years ago though...

Jay dubbleU

Think I'm probably an occasional OMIL :roll:

roger_merriman

Agent57 wrote:

Given the number of men aged 35-44 who are buying fancy-pants road racing machines, is this a 21st Century mid-life crisis? Has the silence of skinny tyres and carbon fibre framesets replaced the thunderous noise of motorbikes?

I've been riding road bikes in lycra since I was about 16, some 25 years ago. So it's nothing to do with any sort of "mid-life crisis" as far as I'm concerned. As for being a "mamil", being 41 I don't think I qualify. I don't think of 41 as "middle-aged". Clearly, it's not young, but when I think of middle-aged men, I think of someone around 50.

I did get my motorbike a few years ago though...

heh would of said 40 is smack on for middle aged, since you would hope to make 70-90 or so. i'm not far behind you my self!

unixnerd

Guilty as charged :-)

And I can use the article to show the wife I'm now due a 3k bike as well!

gbsahne001

Not me; ride either a 2nd hand bike or one that's 15 yo and ride it all week. Wouldn't be seen dead in a pack of Mamils at the weekend puffing and wheezing over the handlebar, wondering why I've gone past them on aforementioned 15yo bike loaded up with shopping.

Airwave

Well i'm 42,own a carbon bike&wear lycra and do some riding at the weekends.....but on the plus side i still race once a week and ride nearly every day of the week as i've done for the last 20yrs.So i suppose i'm part mamil .It's good to see anybody buying a bike and getting out there,should save the NHS a bundle of dosh in the long run.

Jay dubbleU

I think to be a MAMIL you have to take up cycling in middle age not just be middle aged and have ridden a bike for years like most people on here 8)

Canny Jock

I took up cycling a year ago at 35.
I ride occasionally at the weekend and have just started sportives.
I now wear lycra for weekend rides.
I have just bought a carbon bike.
I wheeze over the handlebars on hills.

Hmmm...

shouldbeinbed

42 soon so I guess I just qualify, but as a MAMIB - the L is cleverly hidden under baggies usually

mybreakfastconsisted

What a stupid article.


I guess everyone in Amsterdam is having a mid-life crisis.

cjcp

I guess it's an example of that very British trait of laughing at ourselves.

Anyone else read that article and think, "Hmm, how can I persuade SWMBO to let me have a crack at Ventoux next year?".

jonginge

cjcp wrote:

I guess it's an example of that very British trait of laughing at ourselves.

Anyone else read that article and think, "Hmm, how can I persuade SWMBO to let me have a crack at Ventoux next year?".

Cingles, cingles, cingles!

CJ Bill

42, but I got my full carbon fibre bike five years ago so does it still count?

cjcp

JonGinge wrote:

cjcp wrote:

I guess it's an example of that very British trait of laughing at ourselves.

Anyone else read that article and think, "Hmm, how can I persuade SWMBO to let me have a crack at Ventoux next year?".

Cingles, cingles, cingles!

Heh heh.

<cough> early June or early September may be the best time, but need to work it out domestically first if I'm going to do the Marmotte, too (which isn't certain) <cough>

rolf_f

Given that the average 40 something these days is actually less fat than the average 20 something, I suspect we are more likely to get away with the lycra than the flabby youth of today

stuaff

Rolf F wrote:

Given that the average 40 something these days is actually less fat than the average 20 something, I suspect we are more likely to get away with the lycra than the flabby youth of today

+1. And the late-30 somethings

rolf_f

StuAff wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Given that the average 40 something these days is actually less fat than the average 20 something, I suspect we are more likely to get away with the lycra than the flabby youth of today

+1. And the late-30 somethings

Oh yes, quite! I do apologise

rjsterry

Middle-aged at heart maybe, but still have a few years to go yet.

beverick

So I stopped being middle aged at 44 according to the BEEB.

That would explain the recently purchased MTB and threat of a carbon road bike.....

Bob

DonDaddyD

You folks are OLD!

Sheesh, my Parents are 48!

When I go through my mid-life crisis, in more than a decades time, it is going to blisteringly-spectacular, I'm going to celebrate it with a crisis to end all crisis.

I'm not going to grow old and grey in some corner to be forgotten like some useless impulse buy.

The World will know, I may even film it!

kelsen

You're gonna make a sex tape?

asprilla

kelsen wrote:

You're gonna make a sex tape?

Cheers. I hope you are suppling the mind bleach.

DonDaddyD

kelsen wrote:

You're gonna make a sex tape?

Why? Does that stop once you hit middle-age?

kelsen

DonDaddyD wrote:

kelsen wrote:

You're gonna make a sex tape?

Why? Does that stop once you hit middle-age?

No, only when you get married!

DonDaddyD

So is marriage something women trick men into then?

Why get married? It seems that the Man spends all this money to give a woman a really lovely day. She gets to dress like Tinkerbell and friends and family gather round to marvel at her.

For his trouble the man then lives the rest of his life, not doing the stuff he wants, getting shouted at for not doing enough of what the woman wants and not getting any reward, physical or otherwise, for his submitting to servitude.

I mean sure there are kids but you don't need to get married for that.

tailwindhome

DonDaddyD wrote:

For his trouble the man then lives the rest of his life, not doing the stuff he wants, getting shouted at for not doing enough of what the woman wants and not getting any reward, physical or otherwise, for his submitting to servitude.

You may be ready

rjsterry

DonDaddyD wrote:

So is marriage something women trick men into then?

Why get married? It seems that the Man spends all this money to give a woman a really lovely day. She gets to dress like Tinkerbell and friends and family gather round to marvel at her.

For his trouble the man then lives the rest of his life, not doing the stuff he wants, getting shouted at for not doing enough of what the woman wants and not getting any reward, physical or otherwise, for his submitting to servitude.

I mean sure there are kids but you don't need to get married for that.

You think not getting married will prevent any of that?

DonDaddyD

rjsterry wrote:

You think not getting married will prevent any of that?

No, no I don't, who am I kidding. I already spend most of my life living Ms DDD's life.

Sigh....

rjsterry

Saaaaahhhhm fings in life are bad.

Dheycun reeeally make you mad!

Over fings just make you swear and curse...