ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the settings where cycles are used to carry a passenger. The beginnings appear to be tricycles such as the Bath chair of the 18th century and sociable tricycles of the late 19th century where a couple might have an outing with the lady purely a passenger or only an intermittent contributor to forward progress. People with a low income simply did not travel much, and even when they did, they were expected to get there by ducking and diving through the traffic under their own steam, an operation at least as dangerous as it is today in big cities. In the 1930s, the bicycle was increasingly used as a leisure machine in Britain, France and some other European countries, and more particularly as a family leisure conveyance, and future child-carrying would be explored from that angle. From the 1980s onwards, leisure bicycles were developed as mountain bike-style machines, with little provision for carrying anything at all.
