The world from a bicycle: Cycling as kinesthetic methodology

We theorize the epistemological orientations and methodological possibilities of cycling as a sociotechnical, kinesthetic, and emplaced practice relevant across human geography. Foregrounding the liminalities, contingencies, and improvisational potentials of cycling, we highlight how its unique pacing and capacity to traverse and transcend infrastructural and social constraints foster embodied engagements. Our cycling experiences illustrate the activity’s generativeness across research lifecycles. We conceptualize cycling as an exemplar of kinesthetic methodologies, which integrate body, machine, and motion in ways that deepen embodied knowing, inspire serendipitous interactions, prompt reflection on positionality, and expand possibilities for understanding the world in and across place.