The world from a bicycle: Cycling as kinesthetic methodology.

The article focuses on theorizing cycling as an emplaced kinesthetic methodology within human geography, emphasizing its unique epistemological and methodological potentials. It conceptualizes cycling as a sociotechnical practice that integrates body, machine, and motion, enabling embodied, sensorial, and mobile engagements with place that foster serendipitous encounters, reflexivity, and nuanced understandings of sociospatial relations. Drawing on ethnographic reflections from diverse geographic contexts, the authors highlight how cycling's rhythms, infrastructural interactions, and positionalities shape both what researchers perceive and how they are perceived, influencing access and visibility in fieldwork. The article also addresses challenges related to inclusivity, safety, and contextual variability, advocating for cycling as one among many kinesthetic methods that expand research approaches by centering embodied movement as integral to knowledge production.