On the last weekend of June, a group of Mamil’s (middle-aged men in Lycra) from Arklow and its surrounding areas will take on a demanding two-day cross-country cycle from the Atlantic coast to the ...

Cycling Ulster, the provincial governing body, has more than 6,900 members - 5,587 of whom are male. 'It was the companionship that kept me going' To play this video you need to enable JavaScript ...

These middle-aged men in Lycra or "Mamils" might have been so-named by a marketing firm, but statistics from British Cycling confirm they really do dominate the sport's amateur practitioners. With ...

Lycra-clad “weekend warriors” are deterring new cyclists from the sport, according to world record-breaking long distance rider Mark Beaumont. Those who take cycling too seriously and think ...

Martin Gatenby, a 56-year-old Yorkshire man and keen cycling enthusiast, is used to hearing the acronym Mamil (middle-aged man in Lycra) bandied around, and it’s a term he embraces.

Most mornings my bike lane is at least 70 per cent male and 90 per cent white — a depressingly accurate reflection of TfL’s recent finding that cyclists in the capital are overwhelmingly more ...

It's not just for Middle Aged Men in Lycra," says Ms Young, who's on the Cycling Ulster Women's Commission, and is the driving force behind Women on Wheels. "There are quite a few women in our ...

Claire Young loves the outdoors. The marine biologist dabbled in mountaineering and rock-climbing while at university, but when marriage and children came along, she found it difficult to find the ...