At the end of the nineteenth century, the modern safety bicycle and the cultures that surrounded it were global in scale. In tracing the use and adoption of the bicycle in the South, this article reveals the ways in which the everyday experiences of local culture intersected with the world. It argues that the subjectivity of riding a bicycle transformed the ways in which white southerners experienced, thought of, and imagined their region. The article contributes to two shifts in southern studies and the historiography of the New South. It brings recent discussions of the South in the world to the level of the everyday by tracing the experiences of a new technological mobility and its social and cultural worlds. In demonstrating the ways white southerners took up cycling culture, it also integrates the region into the global trends of mass culture that move beyond histories of popular culture in the New South focussed mostly on the region's relationship to the nation.

在 19 世纪末，现代安全自行车及其周围的文化规模已遍及全球。在追踪南方自行车的使用和采用过程中，本文揭示了当地文化的日常体验与世界相交的方式。它认为骑自行车的主观性改变了南方白人体验、思考和想象他们所在地区的方式。这篇文章促成了南方研究和新南方史学的两个转变。它通过追踪新技术流动性及其社会和文化世界的经验，将世界上最近对南方的讨论带到了日常生活的水平。在展示白人南方人接受自行车文化的方式时，