Bicycle Racing: Sport, Technology and Modernity, 1869-1903

Andrew Ritchie traces the history of bicycle racing from its roots in popular entertainment and gymnastic display in the 1860s to its emergence as a classic sport in the 1890s. One of the most equipment-dependent of modern sports, from its beginnings as an arena for testing the products of rival bicycle makers, the sport has had a rich and complex relationship with the industry as bicycle design and technology evolved.