Neil Carter is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, UK.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Cycling and the rise of respectable recreation
2 Cycling as Victorian spectacle
3 Cycling, Englishness and the politics of the road
4 Cycling and the people
5 The birth of British massed-start racing
6 Women, modernity and cycling
7 Cycling in the age of motoring
8 Cycling, politics and environmentalism
9 Cycling in post-industrial Britain
10 Elite cycling and British society
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index