1st Edition
Routledge Companion to Cycling
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 The volume synthesizes a rapidly growing body of research on the bicycle, its past and present uses, its technological evolution, its use in diverse geographical settings, its aesthetics and its deployment in art and literature. From its origins in early modern carriage technology in Germany, it has generated what is now a vast, multi-disciplinary literature encompassing a wide range of issues in countries throughout the world.
An Introduction to The Companion to Cycling
Glen Norcliffe
Section 1: Cycling and Society: An Introduction
Introduction to Section 1
Peter Cox
1. Theorising Cycling
Peter Cox
2. Cycling and Gender: Past, Present and Paths Ahead
Jennifer Bonham and Kat Jungnicklel
3. The Precarious Work of Platform Cycle Delivery Workers
Cosmin Popan and Esther Anaya-Boig.
4. The Sociality of Cycling
Simon Batterbury and Alejandro Manga
Vignette A: Black Cyclists Matter: Major Taylor – Au Parc des Princes 1901.
Andrew Ritchie.
5. Programs for Cycling Inclusion
Angela van der Kloof
6. The Potential of "Bike-like" Vehicles to Provide Big Wins for Climate Change,
Safety and Justice
Kevin J. Krizek.
7. Mobility, Freedom and Self-determination: The Benefits (and Barriers) to
Disabled People Cycling
Kay Inckle.
Section 2: Cycle Technology
Introduction to Section 2
Tony Hadland.
8. Configurations of Cycles
Hans-Erhard Lessing.
9. Frames and materials
Dave Minter
10. Wheels and Shock Absorption
Tony Hadland
11. Transmission and Brakes
Dan Farrell
12. Passenger Carrying
David Henshaw
Vignette B: Micromobility in Rwanda: Hilary Angus.
13. Cycling Technologies and Disability
Ron Buliung, Annika Kruse, Glen Norcliffe, and John Radford.
Section 3: The Cycling Economy: An Introduction
Introduction to Section 3
Glen Norcliffe.
14. The Global Bicycle Industry
Glen Norcliffe and Boyang Gao.
15. The Value Chains and Production Clusters of Taiwan’s Bicycle Industry
Cheng-Mei Tung
16. Bicycle Trade Shows as Transactional Spaces
Michael Andreae and Glen Norcliffe.
17. Retailing Bicycles
Jay Townley, Bradley Hughes and Michael Fritz
18. On the Shoulders of Giant: Cluster Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Taiwanese Bicycle Industry
Yu-chun Lin.
19. Street Trades and Work Cycles
Claudio Sarmiento-Casas,
Vignette C: Mobile cycle repairing in Beijing: Tian Yun
SECTION 4: URBAN CYCLING: An Introduction
Introduction to Section 4
Sheila Hanlon
20. Cycling Infrastructure: Planning Cycle Networks
John Parkin.
Vignette D: Cycling infrastructure in Lund, Sweden. Till Koglin.
21. Situating the Mobility Fix of Contemporary Urban Cycling Policy
Justin Spinney
22. Making Space for Cycling
Sergio Montero Munoz and Paola Castenada
Vignette E: B2W Indonesia and the re-cycling of Jakarta:
Purwanto Setiani
23. Shared Micromobility: Policy, Practices, and Emerging Futures
Susan Shaheen, Adam Cohen and Jacquelyn Broader
24. E-bikes: Expanding the Practice of Cycling?
Dimitri Marincek and Patrick Rérat
25. Cycling Safety as Mobility Justice
Léa Ravensbergen, Ron Buliung and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Section 5: Sport Cycling, Health and Lifestyles: An Introduction
Introduction to Section 5
Tim Jones
26. Amateur Sport Cycling: The Rise of the MAMIL.
Tim Jones
27. Professional Road Cycling
Daam Van Reeth
Vignette F: In the peloton. Michael Barry.
28. Off-road Cycling
Karen McCormack and Ben Osborn
29. Track Cycling
Michael Jordan
Vignette G: Keirin culture: Keizo Kobayashi.
30. Health Benefits of Cycling
Adrian Bauman, Sylvia Titze and Pekka Oja
31. Doping in Cycling: Past, Present and Future Trends
Charlotte Smith,
SECTION 6: PLACES OF CYCLING: An Introduction
Introduction to Section 6
Luis Vivanco
Vignette H: Early Cycling in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. David Herlihy.
32. Cycling’s Symphony of Place
Robert McCullough
Vignette I: Constructing peaceful places through bicycles.
Jeanette Steinmann, Mitchell McSweeney, Lyndsay Hayhurst & Brian Wilson.
33. In Quest of Adventures
Duncan Jamieson
Vignette J: Winter cycling: Montreal’s four-season bicycle network
Bartek Komoroski and Kevin Manaugh.
34. The Africanized Bicycle
Hans Peter Hahn
Vignette K: The Devil’s Chariot: women cycling in the Middle East. Alon Raab
35. Cycling in Indian Cities: Between Everyday Cyclists and Affluent Cyclists
Rutul Joshi and Jacob Baby.
36. The Rise the "Kingdom of Bicycles"
Xu Tao
37. Copenhagen is a good place to bike – but it could be better…
Malene Freudendahl-Petersen.
Vignette L: Beach Road, Melbourne. Charlie Farren.
38. Bogotá: Perspectives on the "World bike capital"
Luis Vivanco.
Section 7: The Visual Culture of Cycling
Introduction to Section 7
Nicholas Oddy
39. The Machine Aesthetic: The Visual Identity of the Bicycle and Its
Representation in Advertising and Artefacts
Nicholas Oddy.
40. Dressed to Ride
Emma Hilborn.
41. Cycle Posters of The Belle Époque:
Nadine Besse.
42. Art and the Cycle
Scotford Lawrence
Vignette M: The space between: Hilary Norcliffe.
43. Cycling and Cinema: Revolutionary Films
Bruce Bennett
Section 8: Cycling in Literature: An Introduction
Introduction to Section 8
Una Brogan
44. The Bicycle and the Creative Pursuit in French Literature
Edward Nye.
45. The Liberating Bicycle in Literature
Jeremy Withers.
46. Cycling humor in turn-of-the-century literature
Una Brogan.
47. On Bards on Bicycles: The Art of Cycling Poetry
Justin Daniel Belmont
48. "The stutter of the world beneath you": The Literature of Cycle Travel
Dave Buchanan
Biography
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.
