The Modern MAMIL (Middle-Aged Man in Lycra) A Cyclist's Journal

Every weekend, across the nation's rolling countryside, watch out for the Mamils: middle-aged men in lycra. Their natural habitat is the local espresso bar, where they obsess about power-to-weight ratios and worship the latest high-tech road bikes. Desperate to shave a few milligrams for speed, they will spend thousands on anything made out of carbon - conveniently forgetting about their own waistlines. At night they dream they are Bradley Wiggins or Alberto Contador. They are the Mamils. And they are taking over the world.