An essay on the bicycle from French anthropologist Marc Auge, from childhood memories to visions of a future cycling utopia.

Marc Augé is an anthropologist and the former director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His many books include Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity and The Future. He lives in Paris. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago.