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Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York's streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city's first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle's place in city life have been so persistent not just because of its many uses-recreation, sport, transportation, business-but because of changing conceptions of who cyclists are. In On Bicycles, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle's place in the city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city's changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared. It has been central, as when horse-drawn carriages shared the road with bicycle lanes in the 1890s; peripheral, when Robert Moses's car-centric vision made room for bicycles only as recreation; and aggressively marginalized, when Ed Koch's battle against bike messengers culminated in the short-lived 1987 Midtown Bike Ban. On Bicycles illuminates how the city as we know it today-veined with over a thousand miles of bicycle lanes-reflects a fitful journey powered, and opposed, by New York City's people and its politics.

Bicycle commuting --- Bicycle sharing programs --- Cycling --- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). --- Bicycle riding --- Bicycle transportation --- Bicycling --- Aerobic exercises --- Locomotion --- Bicycles --- Dicycles --- Tricycles --- Unicycles --- Bikeshare programs --- Community bicycle programs --- Free bicycle programs --- Public bicycle programs --- Bicycle leasing and renting --- Commuting --- History. --- Social aspects --- Handcycles

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This book explores the understanding, description, and measurement of the physical, sensory, social, and emotional features of motorcycle and bicycle journey experiences in tourism. Novel insights are presented from an original case study of these forms of tourism in the Sella Pass, a panoramic road close to the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site. A comprehensive mixed-methods strategy was employed for this research, with concurrent use of quantitative and qualitative methods including documentation and secondary data analysis, mobile video ethnography, and emotion measurement. The aim was to create a holistic knowledge of the features of journey experiences and a new definition of the mobility space as a perceptual space. The book is significant in that it is among the first studies to explore the concept of journey experiences and to develop an interdisciplinary theoretical foundation of mobility spaces. It offers a comprehensive understanding and a benchmarking of the features of motorcycling and cycling journey experiences, a deeper market knowledge on motorcycling and cycling tourists, and a set of tools, techniques, and recommendations for future research on tourist experiences.

Cycling --- Motorcycling --- Social aspects. --- Motorcycle riding --- Bicycle riding --- Bicycle transportation --- Bicycling --- Aerobic exercises --- Locomotion --- Bicycles --- Dicycles --- Tricycles --- Unicycles --- Tourism. --- Sports-Sociological aspects. --- Emotions. --- Anthropology. --- Sports-Psychological aspects. --- Tourism Management. --- Sociology of Sport and Leisure. --- Emotion. --- Sport Psychology. --- Human beings --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Psychology --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Economic aspects --- Management. --- Sports—Sociological aspects. --- Sports—Psychological aspects. --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences