USA Cycling could face increased competition at the amateur and grassroots level with the advent of a new national sanctioning body that plans to open for business as soon as next week.
North American Cycle Sport will focus on supporting riders, promoters and local associations by providing a simplified framework for both competitive and non-competitive grassroots events, said NACS CEO Tod Manning, who insisted that the new group is not out to compete with USA Cycling, but rather to help the national governing body achieve its own mission of growing competitive cycling in the US.
“At this point in time there are a lot of folks who are looking for alternatives to USA Cycling for their events,” Manning said. “And we want to provide them with that alternative. But that being said, we are very supportive of USAC's mission to improve and increase competitive cycling across the United States.”
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In an interview with Cyclingnews this week, Manning said NACS arose from concerns among a number of people in the cycling industry regarding the “direction that things were going” in the US, especially at the local and regional levels.
“Over the last several years we realized that maybe there was an opening for a different solution for grassroots cycling and the entire cycling community in the United States,” he said.
The events that NACS will target include local and regional racing along with non-competitive events like gran fondos and charity rides – basically any event that gets people on bikes.
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