“I wanted to examine what life is like today for middle-aged men,” says the film’s Australian director Nickolas Bird.
A documentary film out next week aims to capture the Mamil (middle-aged man in Lycra) experience, almost a decade after the phenomenon began.
I do my training either first thing or late at night so I have time with my kids and wife.
Kitted out in form-hugging Lycra, cycling in groups down leafy lanes, racing past buses on crowded roads, chatting on corners. Now they’re on cinema screens, too.