ABSTRACT
This chapter is born out of the author's own passion for cycling and the fact that he/she was lucky enough to receive funding to undertake a PhD studying cycling and mobility in London from 2003 to 2006. It begins to work through one particular strand using a largely ethnographic approach that has emerged from the author empirical fieldwork, relating to people's sensory experience of place in a mobile practice. The chapter draws on empirical material from fieldwork with 20 cyclists in London. It stitches together empirical material from the author case study interviews and ethnographic work to create a fictional journey around London, as a vehicle to represent some of the many sensory understandings of cyclists in London. The concept of place as theorised in geographical enquiry has tended to revolve around notions of dwelling, sociality, and the visual qualities of place embodied in the term landscape.
