Rise of the MAMILS

setanta159

Great article on the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10965608

Captain Havoc

Doesn't sound like anyone here :rolleyes: (I'm too young and living at home before you point at me).

Lumen

BBC wrote:

...middle-aged men choosing to get on two wheels. Given the number of men aged 35-44...

Whoa there. 35 is not middle-aged.

Captain Havoc

Lumen wrote: »

Whoa there. 35 is not middle-aged.

How old are you?

daragh_

Very similar to an article that appeared in the Gaurdian last week.

Lumen

Captain Havoc wrote: »

How old are you?

24.

In hex.

CramCycle

We hit the first hill and suddenly we're a puffing, panting, heaving mass of sweaty humanity that is well past its sell-by-date. Sounds humiliating? I've never had so much fun in my life

I don't like the BBC using descriptions of me to describe men many years my senior, can you have a 1/3 life crisis?

smacl

Lumen wrote: »

24.

In hex.

Go on, we all know you're really 44

In Octal

smacl

Given the number of men aged 35-44 who are buying fancy-pants road racing machines, is this a 21st Century mid-life crisis?

45 years young and bought a hybrid. Narrow escape there, I'd hate to be labelled so easily. And FWIW the missus loves lycra....

rughdh

...is this a 21st Century mid-life crisis?

Crisis? What crisis?* Besides, you can only tell when a person was actually middle-aged after they are dead. (age at death/2). I'd certainly be regarded as middle-aged by any societal definition, but I could live to 120!





*I"ll give you the grumpiness, but that's just because nothin's like what it used to be in my day. I know this is off-topic, but could someone please do something about all them TV channels, we shouldn't have any more than 5. And coffee? Don't get me started on coffee. Just black, please.

Lumen

rughdh wrote: »

And coffee? Don't get me started on coffee. Just black, please.

I know. I have to ask for an "Americano" now. That's just demeaning.

And walkmans. Why must people render themselves deaf and dumb? It's such a barrier to basic civility. No more "good morning Miss Kelly, how are you today?". She's plugged in to Spice Girls or whatever they listen to now on the popular music charts.

cdaly_

smacl wrote: »

45 years young and bought a hybrid. Narrow escape there, I'd hate to be labelled so easily. And FWIW the missus loves lycra....

You'd think wouldn't you?

2 years ago I bought a hybrid at about 4x years young. Runners, jeans and high-vis top.

It has transmogrified itself into a road bike with aerobars and proper clip-in pedals and nearly no mudguards and I'm now gorgeously clad in lycra from neck to knee.

There's no escape...

Hungrycol

I'm 35, own a motorbike and a flashy carbon/alu road bike as well as some Assos gear. Phew that's my mid life crisis done now I can get on with cycling please.

manwithaplan

Don't tell me this is my mid-life crisis. I was so looking forward to the cocaine and hookers.

daragh_

manwithaplan wrote: »

Don't tell me this is my mid-life crisis. I was so looking forward to the cocaine and hookers.

Tried that. Hookers drew the line at wearing full team kit. Coke kept blowing of the hoods during descents.

Hungrycol

manwithaplan wrote: »

Don't tell me this is my mid-life crisis. I was so looking forward to the cocaine and hookers.

Feel sorry for Boonen to have hit it in his 20's!

Esroh

Lumen wrote: »

I know. I have to ask for an "Americano" now. That's just demeaning.

And walkmans:eek:. Why must people render themselves deaf and dumb? It's such a barrier to basic civility. No more "good morning Miss Kelly, how are you today?". She's plugged in to Spice Girls or whatever they listen to now on the popular music charts.

Your showing your age there Youngman. Those things had a cassette tape (which for those young people was a plastic yoke with a tape in it and when put in a Walkman it actually made music:D)

tomasrojo

Esroh wrote: »

Your showing your age there Youngman. Those things had a cassette tape (which for those young people was a plastic yoke with a tape in it and when put in a Walkman it actually made music:D)

Do you mean a portable gramophone?



Handy for your next Tweed Ride.

ednwireland

joe duffy discussing this today on liveline apparently
looks like i was talking b*****ks (sorry thats what happens withsecond hand info

thebouldwhacker

I wouldn't pay too much heed to the reporter.....







Just another journalist too lazy to find something good to report so goes for the cheap laughs, trying to make news rather than report it.

While the article is very tongue in cheek I always think its funny that we get bombarded with messages like 'don't be fat, get healthy or you'll die screaming before your 40' and as soon as people try and do something which doesn't involve kicking a ball into a net they are targets for cheap laughs... it bores me tbh.

My age? 21+ v.a.t.