Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Terrible Swede
Part 1. Bicycles and Bloomers
Chapter 1. Six-Day Bike Race for Women
Chapter 2. Watch the Woman Cyclists
Chapter 3. After Gold and Medals
Part 2. Leading Ladies
Chapter 4. Riders Are Dressed in Pleasing Costumes
Chapter 5. Like Spiders on a Wall
Chapter 6. Lovers True
Chapter 7. Girls May Pull Hair
Part 3. Backlash
Chapter 8. Threatened with Suspension
Chapter 9. A Gala Event on Wheels
Chapter 10. Is Bicycling Immoral?
Chapter 11. Men versus Women
Chapter 12. Amazons on Wheels
Part 4. Rivals
Chapter 13. Girls Have a Spat!
Chapter 14. It Will Be Run for Blood
Chapter 15. They Do Not Speak
Chapter 16. The “Muscular Beauties”
Part 5. Lisette
Chapter 17. The Parisian, Unbeaten and Unafraid, Is Coming
Chapter 18. Lisette and Her Lightning Rivals
Chapter 19. The Greatest Drawing Card in Bicycle History
Part 6. Farewell to Cycliennes
Chapter 20. War on Six-Day Bicycle Races
Chapter 21. Grand Vaudeville
Chapter 22. Have You Seen the Cycle Whirl?
Epilogue: Maiden Name Known to All
Notes
Index