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.

• An Introduction to The Companion to Cycling Section 1: Cycling and Society: An Introduction Introduction to Section 1 1. Theorising Cycling2. Cycling and Gender: Past, Present and Paths Ahead3. The Precarious Work of Platform Cycle Delivery Workers4. The Sociality of CyclingVignette A: Black Cyclists Matter: Major Taylor – Au Parc des Princes 1901. 5. Programs for Cycling Inclusion6. The Potential of "Bike-like" Vehicles to Provide Big Wins for Climate Change,Safety and Justice7. Mobility, Freedom and Self-determination: The Benefits (and Barriers) toDisabled People Cycling Section 2: Cycle Technology Introduction to Section 28. Configurations of Cycles9. Frames and materials10. Wheels and Shock Absorption11. Transmission and Brakes12. Passenger CarryingVignette B: Micromobility in Rwanda13. Cycling Technologies and DisabilitySection 3: The Cycling Economy: An IntroductionIntroduction to Section 314. The Global Bicycle Industry15. The Value Chains and Production Clusters of Taiwan’s Bicycle Industry16. Bicycle Trade Shows as Transactional Spaces17. Retailing Bicycles18. On the Shoulders of Giant: Cluster Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Taiwanese Bicycle Industry19. Street Trades and Work CyclesVignette C: Mobile cycle repairing in BeijingSECTION 4: URBAN CYCLING: An IntroductionIntroduction to Section 420. Cycling Infrastructure: Planning Cycle NetworksVignette D: Cycling infrastructure in Lund, Sweden21. Situating the Mobility Fix of Contemporary Urban Cycling Policy22. Making Space for CyclingVignette E: B2W Indonesia and the re-cycling of Jakarta:Purwanto Setiani23. Shared Micromobility: Policy, Practices, and Emerging Futures 24. E-bikes: Expanding the Practice of Cycling? 25. Cycling Safety as Mobility Justice Section 5: Sport Cycling, Health and Lifestyles: An IntroductionIntroduction to Section 526. Amateur Sport Cycling: The Rise of the MAMIL. 27. Professional Road CyclingVignette F: In the peloton 28. Off-road Cycling29. Track Cycling Vignette G: Keirin culture30. Health Benefits of Cycling31. Doping in Cycling: Past, Present and Future Trends SECTION 6: PLACES OF CYCLING: An IntroductionIntroduction to Section 6Vignette H: Early Cycling in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. 32. Cycling’s Symphony of Place Vignette I: Constructing peaceful places through bicycles 33. In Quest of AdventuresVignette J: Winter cycling: Montreal’s four-season bicycle network34. The Africanized Bicycle Vignette K: The Devil’s Chariot: women cycling in the Middle East35. Cycling in Indian Cities: Between Everyday Cyclists and Affluent Cyclists36. The Rise the "Kingdom of Bicycles"37. Copenhagen is a good place to bike – but it could be better… Vignette L: Beach Road, Melbourne38. Bogotá: Perspectives on the "World bike capital" Section 7: The Visual Culture of CyclingIntroduction to Section 739. The Machine Aesthetic: The Visual Identity of the Bicycle and ItsRepresentation in Advertising and Artefacts40. Dressed to Ride 41. Cycle Posters of The Belle Époque: 42. Art and the Cycle Vignette M: The space between43. Cycling and Cinema: Revolutionary Films Section 8: Cycling in Literature: An IntroductionIntroduction to Section 844. The Bicycle and the Creative Pursuit in French Literature45. The Liberating Bicycle in Literature 46. Cycling humor in turn-of-the-century literature47. On Bards on Bicycles: The Art of Cycling Poetry 48. "The stutter of the world beneath you": The Literature of Cycle Travel