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@Virgil
I'm currently in the "morning after the day before" state after my first 104 mile sportive yesterday, I was really impressed with most of the riders there, no littering of tubes or spent gel packets and calls for potholes were great, however the amount of Mamils turning up on £1-3k worth of carbon road bike and kit and just being idiots was unbelievable! below I list a couple of classic Mamil sportive traits:
you know you have a Mamil when:
you just got passed along the flat after being drafted for the last 10 miles with no conversation or offering of their wheel.
once passed along the flat, at the next hill, you cruise past the Mamil as if they were going backwards in a huffing sweaty mess.
despite spending a small fortune on one bicycle, they have left their brake caliper qr lever open
hair on legs
ownership and wearing of camelback and as many water bottles as they can ft on the frame, seatpost and top-tube nutrition pouch.
I was unlucky enough to drop my team mates on the first hill so the next 30 miles was ridden with a big group of mamils, until a big hill came up, causing the Mamils to drop back (see no.2) and a nice chap from the local cc caught up with me and we chatted for the remaining 50,