Routledge Companion to Cycling presents a comprehensive overview of an artefact that throughout the modern era has been a bellwether indicator of the major social, economic and environmental trends that have permeated society.

Glen Norcliffe is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at York University, Canada.

Una Brogan is a translator and independent researcher from Northern Ireland, UK.

Peter Cox is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Chester, UK.

Boyang Gao is Professor of Urban and Real Estate Management, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing.

Tony Hadland is a Chartered Building Surveyor and historian living in Oxfordshire, UK.

Sheila Hanlon is a historian specialising in the history of women's cycling works with a number of organizations such as Cycling UK and the Cycling History Education Trust.

Tim Jones is Reader in Urban Mobility in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Nicholas Oddy is Head of Department of Design History & Theory at Glasgow School of Art, UK.

Luis Vivanco is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont, USA.

An Introduction to The Companion to Cycling

Section 1: Cycling and Society: An Introduction

Introduction to Section 1

1. Theorising Cycling

2. Cycling and Gender: Past, Present and Paths Ahead

3. The Precarious Work of Platform Cycle Delivery Workers

4. The Sociality of Cycling

Vignette A: Black Cyclists Matter: Major Taylor - Au Parc des Princes 1901.

5. Programs for Cycling Inclusion

6. The Potential of "Bike-like" Vehicles to Provide Big Wins for Climate Change,

Safety and Justice

7. Mobility, Freedom and Self-determination: The Benefits (and Barriers) to

Disabled People Cycling

Section 2: Cycle Technology

Introduction to Section 2

8. Configurations of Cycles

9. Frames and materials

10. Wheels and Shock Absorption

11. Transmission and Brakes

12. Passenger Carrying

Vignette B: Micromobility in Rwanda

13. Cycling Technologies and Disability

Section 3: The Cycling Economy: An Introduction

Introduction to Section 3

14. The Global Bicycle Industry

15. The Value Chains and Production Clusters of Taiwan's Bicycle Industry

16. Bicycle Trade Shows as Transactional Spaces

17. Retailing Bicycles

18. On the Shoulders of Giant: Cluster Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Taiwanese Bicycle Industry

19. Street Trades and Work Cycles

Vignette C: Mobile cycle repairing in Beijing

SECTION 4: URBAN CYCLING: An Introduction

Introduction to Section 4

20. Cycling Infrastructure: Planning Cycle Networks

Vignette D: Cycling infrastructure in Lund, Sweden

21. Situating the Mobility Fix of Contemporary Urban Cycling Policy

22. Making Space for Cycling

Vignette E: B2W Indonesia and the re-cycling of Jakarta:

Purwanto Setiani

23. Shared Micromobility: Policy, Practices, and Emerging Futures

24. E-bikes: Expanding the Practice of Cycling?

25. Cycling Safety as Mobility Justice

Section 5: Sport Cycling, Health and Lifestyles: An Introduction

Introduction to Section 5

26. Amateur Sport Cycling: The Rise of the MAMIL.

27. Professional Road Cycling

Vignette F: In the peloton

28. Off-road Cycling

29. Track Cycling

Vignette G: Keirin culture

30. Health Benefits of Cycling

31. Doping in Cycling: Past, Present and Future Trends

SECTION 6: PLACES OF CYCLING: An Introduction

Introduction to Section 6

Vignette H: Early Cycling in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris.

32. Cycling's Symphony of Place

Vignette I: Constructing peaceful places through bicycles

33. In Quest of Adventures

Vignette J: Winter cycling: Montreal's four-season bicycle network

34. The Africanized Bicycle

Vignette K: The Devil's Chariot: women cycling in the Middle East

35. Cycling in Indian Cities: Between Everyday Cyclists and Affluent Cyclists

36. The Rise the "Kingdom of Bicycles"

37. Copenhagen is a good place to bike - but it could be better...

Vignette L: Beach Road, Melbourne

38. Bogotá: Perspectives on the "World bike capital"

Section 7: The Visual Culture of Cycling

Introduction to Section 7

39. The Machine Aesthetic: The Visual Identity of the Bicycle and Its

Representation in Advertising and Artefacts

40. Dressed to Ride

41. Cycle Posters of The Belle Époque:

42. Art and the Cycle

Vignette M: The space between

43. Cycling and Cinema: Revolutionary Films

Section 8: Cycling in Literature: An Introduction

Introduction to Section 8

44. The Bicycle and the Creative Pursuit in French Literature

45. The Liberating Bicycle in Literature

46. Cycling humor in turn-of-the-century literature

47. On Bards on Bicycles: The Art of Cycling Poetry

48. "The stutter of the world beneath you": The Literature of Cycle Travel