Surrounded by media images today of healthy, athletic bodies of both sexes, it’s hard to imagine that exactly one hundred years ago media debate raged around the problem of something coyly termed the ‘bifurcated body’. It was largely a problem for the ‘New Woman’, a figure characterised by her ridiculous modernity and, accordingly, her dubious moral standing. The source of the problem was the bicycle, complete with its associated emancipatory pleasures and startled social realisation that women had legs, energy and places to go.