ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies and explores the nature of ecologically good cycling practices. It connects literature on cycling practices with French pragmatic sociology, which imagines ecology as a non-anthropocentric common good, supported by particular practices and infrastructures, that attributes moral worth to human and other-than-human beings and their habitats. I argue cycling contributes to such an ecological common good where cycling practices ameliorate climate change, mass extinction and habitat destruction. The bulk of the chapter investigates these three kinds of ecologically good ways of cycling, which I collectively refer to as new wilderness mobilities, by drawing on mobile ethnographic data from a study conducted between 2014 and 2018 on cycling and its infrastructure in major Canadian cities. This investigation brings to light paradigmatic techniques of new wilderness mobilities: workful play, floating and de-roading. The chapter concludes by discussing the importance of assembling the ‘the good cycling society’ around ecologically good cycling practices that are also socially equitable.
