Dear Peter, I am thinking of presenting my initial thoughts on the development of the idea of the 'effortless bicycle' in depictions of cycling and its relationship to the 'bicycle as body extension' or 'bicycle as tool' (my phrases). This is working up a paper I gave in Canada last year with a view to - er- perfecting it for the International conference of cycling history in July. It will be no more than a 20 minute thing, rather like the one I did for the first Symposium in Lancaster. Does this sound OK? Nicholas. -----Original Message----- From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Cox Sent: 26 January 2006 12:48 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Symposium Announcement[Scanned] Hello everyone The next Cycling and Society Symposium will be held at the University of Chester on April 10 and 11th 2006 If you want to present either work in progress or finished papers, please contact me at the address below or via email. We will have a day for presentation of papers and an informal half day folowing for internal discussion of where we want to go next and looking ahead sort of thing. I've put details at out wikipages: http://www.bolton.ac.uk/staff/jp10/pmwiki.php?n=Main.FuturePlans Hope you can make it Peter Peter Cox School of Social Sciences University of Chester Parkgate Road Chester CH1 4BJ 01244 512039