Bin dun?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/the-rise-of-the-muddy-mamil/
🙂

It’s one of the last remaining hold-outs of real bravery

😆

Mountain biking has become more popular amongst older generations as it offers everything you’d want from a ride – endurance, speed, skill

😀

I thought most of them had to push up the hills, and also go on a skills course just to learn how to jump?

I think many men are converting to mountain biking from road racing because, although there are obviously risks, they still feel safer riding down some insane downhill trail than trying to do battle with some of the lunatic drivers we have on our roads.”

Ain’t that the truth.

It’s so dangerous in fact that Whatsit Bradley starting getting injured two years BEFORE he started mountain biking. Amazeballs.

rofl

That article makes it sound even more nerdy and uncool than it really is!

Halfords???? It uses someone from Halfords as a reliable source of information?

But we’re not MAMIL – we are MAMIB(aggies).

What a pile of cock.

I ride roads too,” Briggs tells me. “But I find that roads lack the sense of exploration,

😯 think he needs to go explore some new roads…..

Oh the irony. First thing that happens when i click the link “you’re running a piece of software that prevents adverts, we rely on advertising income”

Yup, that whole article read like a crap advertisement.

think he needs to go explore some new roads…..

^this. One of the reasons I love road riding is because there are still lanes within striking distance of home that I’ve not yet explored. My from-the-door mountain biking tends to be the same bits over and over again (they are good bits though 🙂 )

‘Rise of the muddy mamil’?

Surely most of us have always been doing this, middle age just caught up with us, except not in lycra.

How can you explore a road? It’s a road.

You’ll be taking pictures of man hole covers next.

‘Rise of the muddy mamil’?

Surely most of us have always been doing this, middle age just caught up with us, except not in lycra.

Infotainment organs such as the Telegraph get everything wrong. Except baiting clicks. Which they get right. You want accuracy? Integrity? 😆 😆

How can you explore a road? It’s a road.

How.can you withstand that level of pedantry? It’s pedantry!

You can almost hear the sub-editor yawning as they cobble together this nonsense.
Downhill riding is an increasingly popular type of mountain biking says the caption to a picture of a lycra clad XC mincer on a hardtail 🙂

PP – my motivation for sure. Road riding is too scary…

‘Rise of the muddy mamil’?

Surely most of us have always been doing this, middle age just caught up with us, except not in lycra.

It’s never going to catch me, I’m way too fast.

How can you explore a road?

I explored a few roads in my racing days. Sometimes very closely, at speed 🙂

The pictures are ace! STW favourite Orange 5. Just needs someone with a beard loading it onto the roof of an Audi.

“I’ve seen massive changes in health and safety in this country,

it wouldnt be the telegraph if it didnt come up at least one an article

it even seems to be in large print for their target demographic 😉

Did someone ask for pictures of ‘manholes’?

Remind me never to have any coaching at Antur Stiniog, dear old Bradley has only been riding a MTB for a couple of years.

APF

They sound like a bunch of fannies,dicks,dull office mummy’s boys.

But we’re not MAMIL – we are MAMIB(aggies).

Nonsense, the accepted trade phrase is MAMBA

Middle Aged Men in Body Armour

I like that hardly any of the pics are in lycra, apart from the one dude obviously in an XC race that says “downhill is increasingly popular”

monkeysfeet – Member

The pictures are ace! STW favourite Orange 5. Just needs someone with a beard loading it onto the roof of an Audi.

And one of the riders was an IT bod!