Routledge Companion to Cycling

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.