Attention all CCA/USAC Sanctioned Clubs:

Greetings All,

Happy New Year!!! It’s that time of year when we need to elect new Board members, finalize the road racing calendar, and select championship events. To that end, the annual CCA planning meeting will be held on January 25, 2020 at the Marriott Courtyard located in Statesville, NC. The address is 1530 Cinema Drive Statesville, NC 28625 and the phone is 704-768-2400. The meeting will begin at 9:00 am. I encourage all clubs to send a representative to the meeting. Participation is essential, especially given the CCA board elections. While it has been an honor and a privilege to serve as your CCA President for the past 10+ years, and Board Secretary & Treasurer before that, it is well past time for someone else to take the reins. A new decade warrants a fresh perspective and innovative ideas. My tenure on the Board was never intended to last quite this long. Therefore, we need willing volunteers to offer themselves up for service on the Board. This is a great opportunity to give back to the sport that we all love in a positive and impactful manner.

Please feel free to contact me, or any of the current Board members, with questions or concerns.

USA Cycling is committed to creating a safe and positive environment for its participants’ physical, emotional, and social development and to ensuring it promotes an environment free from misconduct and abuse. To achieve this, USA Cycling’s SafeSport Program went into effect in January 2014. Today, the Program consists of three core components: (1) Education, (2) Policies (including Criminal Background Checks), and (3) Response and Resolution.  In 2017, the U.S. Center for SafeSport (“The Center”) was launched and it has exclusive jurisdiction over sexual misconduct matters and may exercise discretionary jurisdiction over other misconduct.  The Center also promulgates rules and policies around training requirements and misconduct.  USA Cycling works closely with The Center to educate our membership, create policies that protect our members from misconduct and abuse and respond to and resolve allegations of misconduct when they arise.

What’s so great about being part of a cycling club? Community.  Advocacy.  Social life. Competition. Skills. Fun. Giving back to your tribe.  There are many reasons to join an existing cycling club - or start your own.  Our cycling club listing can help you find the Club that is right for you.

For years, not only were clubs host to countless weeknight and weekend organized rides but they were THE place for beginners to learn basic riding (and racing) skills from more experienced riders  - skills that had been passed down to them by the generations of riders who came before. Clubs have been the keepers of that historical knowledge - how to ride safely in a group, how to race, how put on a race and much more.  They’ve also been key organizers in their communities - voices for safer streets, bike lanes and cyclists’ rights.

Many clubs have it in their mission statements to be welcoming to ALL riders.  Others have a strict racing focus.  Regardless of the focus, broadly speaking all clubs are interested in the social aspects of the sport and making riding safer and more fun for everybody. What follows is a tool kit for clubs that features information for teaching skills for riding, skills for racing and much more that will make everybody safer, more skilled and promote having fun on the bike.

2020 USA Cycling Officials and Technical Membership Renewals

As we close out 2019, our IT department has been hard at work creating some changes with our officiating license renewals.  As you can see from the title of this email, it references “Technical Memberships”.  Officials, Coaches, Mechanics, UCI Support (DS, Team Assistants, Soigneurs, Drivers, etc.) as well as Domestic Drive are part of the “technical licensee” group.  

It is now time to renew your club for 2020!

Reminder that all clubs/teams need to be active, registered USAC member clubs in order to wear clothing bearing commercial sponsorship. If you have not already done so, please register or renew your club ASAP. You may renew your club now and it will be good for the remainder of CX season and all of 2020. I would hate for folks not to be able to wear their team kits this weekend at the Regional CX Championships.

You can renew your club online through your USA Cycling account, by clicking on tools on the club page, or by submitting a paper application. Regardless of how you renew, doing so now will give you a head start on 2020!

P.S. If you have any questions about the renewal process, feel free to contact our membership desk at 719.434.4200 or via email at membershipmail@usacycling.org