Scottish Cycling

Infobox Sport governing body
assocname= Scottish Cyclists' Union

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sport= Cycle racing
abbrev = SCU
founded = 1952
aff = British Cycling
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url = www.scuonline.org
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Scottish Cycling, legally the Scottish Cyclists' Union (SCU), is the national governing body for bicycle racing in Scotland.

Scottish Cycling is at the velodrome at Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh. It covers road bicycle racing, track cycling, mountain bike racing, cyclo-cross, BMX racing and time trialing.

Scottish Cycling introduced the (Scottish Mountain Bike Leader Award), qualification in the UK for leading organised groups on mountain biking rides.

Scottish Cycling has a performance department to help train and develop Scottish athletes. It also enters Scottish teams for events such as the Commonwealth Games and Tour of Britain.

History

In 1931, Scottish cycling clubs formed a loose association named the Scottish Amateur Racing Association (SARA), which concerned itself with organisation of amateur road time trials. In 1936, a meeting of all Scottish clubs resolved to form a new body to represent all road time-trialling. This body, the Scottish Amateur Cycling Association (SACA), took over from the SARA in 1937.

In the same year, the National Cyclists' Union (NCU) formed a Scottish section to regulate mass-start road and track cycling. Racing on the open road had been discouraged by the NCU since the 19th century for fear that it would jeopardise the place of all cyclists on the road. Mass races were held on private circuits and consequently there were few races.

A desire to race on the open road led some clubs to affliate to the rival British League of Racing Cyclists (BLRC) in 1945. The following year, the Scottish section of the NCU reformed itself into an autonomous body affliated to the NCU, the Scottish National Cyclists' Union (SNCU). In response, in 1947, the Scottish BLRC reconstituted itself into the Scottish Cyclists' Union (SCU), an automous body affliated to the BLRC.

In 1952 the SCU, SNCU and SACA amalgamated into a single body, which retained the Scottish Cyclists' Union name.

More recently, the Scottish Cyclists' Union changed to Scottish Cycling (SC)..

ee also

*Sport in Scotland
*British Cycling

External links

* [http://www.scuonline.org/ Official website]
* [http://www.britishcycling.org.uk British Cycling]
* [http://www.cyclingscotland.org/ Scottish Executive - Cycling Scotland]
* [http://www.pedalforscotland.org/ Pedal for Scotland 2006]
* [http://cycling.visitscotland.com/ Scottish Tourist Board - Cycling in Scotland]
* [http://www.braveheartcyclingfund.com/home.asp Braveheart Cycling Fund]
* [http://www.ctcscotland.org.uk/ CTC Scotland]
* [http://www.scottishmountainbike.com Scottish Mountain Bike]
* [http://scotlandinter.net/cycling.htm List of Scottish cycling websites]