Introduction
Chapter 1 - "It Could Have Been Otherwise": Bicycles and Motorcycles
Chapter 2 - Roads: Mobility, Bicycles, Motorcycles
Chapter 3 - Rubber and Steel: The "Raw" Materials
Chapter 4 - Textiles: Machines, Fabrics, Fabrication
Chapter 5 - The Paradoxes of Class and Gender among Bicyclists and Motorcyclists
Chapter 6 - The Embodied Cyclist and Freedom
Conclusion

This book challenges the common evolutionary model of development from the bicycle to the motorcycle. It examines the bicycle and motorcycle as material objects and focuses on the complex socio-political and economic convergences that produced the materials, which in turn shaped the vehicles' appearance, function, and adoption by riders.

Suzanne Ferriss is professor of English at Nova Southeastern University.
Steven E. Alford is professor of English at Nova Southeastern University.