Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Terrible Swede

Part 1. Bicycles and Bloomers

1. Six-Day Bike Race for Women

2. Watch the Woman Cyclists

3. After Gold and Medals

Part 2. Leading Ladies

4. Riders Are Dressed in Pleasing Costumes

5. Like Spiders on a Wall

6. Lovers True

7. Girls May Pull Hair

Part 3. Backlash

8. Threatened with Suspension

9. A Gala Event on Wheels

10. Is Bicycling Immoral?

11. Men versus Women

12. Amazons on Wheels

Part 4. Rivals

13. Girls Have a Spat!

14. It Will Be Run for Blood

15. They Do Not Speak

16. The “Muscular Beauties”

Part 5. Lisette

17. The Parisian, Unbeaten and Unafraid, Is Coming

18. Lisette and Her Lightning Rivals

19. The Greatest Drawing Card in Bicycle History

Part 6. Farewell to Cycliennes

20. War on Six-Day Bicycle Races

21. Grand Vaudeville

22. Have You Seen the Cycle Whirl?

Epilogue: Maiden Name Known to All

Notes

Index