Masters Cycling
Masters cycling is an age category of cycling officially established by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 1994. Competitions * ''World Masters Track Cycling Championships'' organized since 1997. * ''World Masters Road Cycling Championships'' organized since 19?. * ''European Masters Cycling Championships'' organized since 19?. * ''Asian Masters Cycling Championships'' organized since 2016. See also * Senior sport * History of the bicycle * European Cycle Messenger Championships References External links * Cycling Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

Cycle Sport
Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling sports include artistic cycling, cycle polo, freestyle BMX, mountain bike trials, Hardcourt Bike Polo, hardcourt bike polo and cycleball. The (UCI) is the world Sport governing body, governing body for cycling and international competitive cycling events. The International Human Powered Vehicle Association is the governing body for human-powered vehicles that imposes far fewer restrictions on their design than does the UCI. The UltraMarathon Cycling Association is the governing body for many ultra-distance cycling races. Bicycle racing is recognised as an Olympic sport. Bicycle races are popular all over the world, especially in Europe. The countries most devoted to bicycle racing include Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the N ...
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Union Cycliste Internationale
The Union Cycliste Internationale (; UCI; ) is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland. The UCI issues racing licenses to riders and enforces disciplinary rules, such as in matters of doping. The UCI also manages the classification of races and the points ranking system in various cycling disciplines including road and track cycling, mountain biking, cyclo-cross, Gravel, and BMX, for both men and women, amateur and professional. It also oversees the World Championships. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UCI said that Russian and Belarusian teams were forbidden from competing in international events. It also stripped both Russia and Belarus of scheduled events. History The UCI was founded on 14 April 1900 in Paris by the national cycling sports organisations of Belgium, the United States, France, Italy, and Switzerland. It replaced the International Cycl ...
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Senior Sport
Senior (shortened as Sr.) means "the elder" in Latin and is often used as a suffix for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent. It may also refer to: * Senior (name), a surname or given name * Senior (education), a student in the final year of high school, college or university * Senior citizen, a common designation for a person 65 and older in UK and US English ** Senior (athletics), an age athletics category ** Senior status, form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges * Senior debt, a form of corporate finance * Senior producer, a title given usually to the second most senior person of a film of television production. Art * ''Senior'' (album), a 2010 album by Röyksopp * ''Seniors'' (film), a 2011 Indian Malayalam film * ''Senior'' (film), a 2015 Thai film * '' The Senior'', a 2003 album by Ginuwine * '' The Seniors'', a 1978 American comedy film See also * Pages that begin with "Seni ...
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History Of The Bicycle
Vehicles that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date back to the early 19th century. The first means of transport making use of two wheels arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German ''draisine'' dating back to 1817. The term ''bicycle'' was coined in France in the 1860s, and the descriptive title "penny farthing", used to describe an " ordinary bicycle", is a 19th-century term. Earliest unverified bicycle There are several early claims regarding the invention of the bicycle, but many remain unverified. A sketch from around 1500 AD is attributed to Gian Giacomo Caprotti, a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, but it was described by Hans-Erhard Lessing in 1998 as a purposeful fraud, a description now generally accepted. However, the authenticity of the bicycle sketch is still vigorously maintained by followers of Augusto Marinoni, a lexicographer and philologist, who was entrusted by the Commissione Vinciana of Rome with the transcript ...
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European Cycle Messenger Championships
The European Cycle Messenger Championships (ECMC) is an annual competition for European bicycle messengers. The first ECMC was held in Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ... in 1996. This was originally planned as the 2nd ''German Cycle Messenger Championships (GCMC/DMFK)'', but was turned into a European championship due to large participation of Dutch and Danish messengers. Championships See also * Cycle Messenger World Championships Sources * Cycle racing in Europe {{cycling-race-stub ...
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Masters Cycling
Masters cycling is an age category of cycling officially established by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 1994. Competitions * ''World Masters Track Cycling Championships'' organized since 1997. * ''World Masters Road Cycling Championships'' organized since 19?. * ''European Masters Cycling Championships'' organized since 19?. * ''Asian Masters Cycling Championships'' organized since 2016. See also * Senior sport * History of the bicycle * European Cycle Messenger Championships References External links * Cycling Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...