Jim Cherrington is Senior Lecturer in Physical Activity, Sport, and Health at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research explores how identity, bodies, knowledges, and objects are materialised in/through everyday life, with much of his recent work dedicated to investigating the socio-historical, socio-technical, and onto-political conditions of mountain biking.

Introduction: mountain bike culture as a 'structure of feeling'

JIM CHERRINGTON

PART I

Mountain biking identities

1 Exploring mountain bike coaches' perceptions towards learning to coach through story completion: coaching happily ever after?

THOMAS M. LEEDER AND LEE C. BEAUMONT

2 Evaluating competitiveness as a personality trait among a sample of mountain bikers

KIEREN MCEWAN, NEIL WESTON, AND PAUL GORCZYNSKI

3 The motivations, identities, and environmental sensibilities of contemporary e-mountain bike users: the people behind the power

LESLEY INGRAM-SILLS

PART II

Mountain biking bodies

4 A sociology of how things go wrong in mountain biking: falling into place

MIKE LLOYD

5 An exploration into the sensory experience of pain in mountain biking

BENJAMIN MORELAND

6 Encounters with mountain bike trail centre spaces: experience landscapes

DAVID GIBBS AND LEWIS HOLLOWAY

PART III

Mountain biking environments

7 Downhill MTB, digital media, and DIY urbanism: riding with Red Bull

JACOB J. BUSTAD AND OLIVER J. C. RICK

8 Sustainable mountain bike trails: towards a holistic approach

TOM CAMPBELL

9 No dig, no ride: repairing and caring for DIY-designed mountain bike and BMX trails

LIAM HEALY

10 Air pollution as 'slow violence' during multi-day mountain bike trips

CLARE NATTRESS

PART IV

The cultural politics of mountain biking

11 Women and barriers to participation in mountain biking: the impossible climb

LOUISE BORDELON

12 Hegemonic masculinity and sexualisation in mountain bike trail naming practices: what's in a name?

BENJAMIN MORELAND, ALICE LEMKES, JENNI MYERS, AND JACK REED

13 Portrayals of ideals of authenticity in mountain biking multimedia: escaping to find yourself

JEFF R. WARREN AND JOHN REID-HRESKO

14 Reflections on trails, mountain biking, and indigenous-settler relations in British Columbia: ride, (re)connect, and (re)build

TAVIS SMITH, PATRICK LUCAS, TOM EUSTACHE, AND THOMAS SCHOEN