In his first season, Elijah Kwon set out to give young Scottish riders somewhere to race. Twelve months and forty applicants later, Edinburgh Bike Fitting RT arrive at Gifford on Saturday with a fully Scottish roster, UCI racing on three continents, and ambitions that have long since outgrown the student project they started as.
Whistlefield Hill once again proved the king-maker on the Rosneath Peninsula as 21-year-old Sam Chisholm (Edinburgh Bike Fitting RT) surged clear of Tim Shoreman and deposed champion Logan Maclean to seize the senior men’s Scottish crown, while Lulu Bartlett (Team Boompods) out-lasted breakaway companion Arianne Holland to land her maiden women’s title, Sunday 4 May.
A new dawn for Scottish cycling: in the wake of The Cycling Academy’s closure, racer-turned-team-founder Elijah Kwon is filling the gap with Edinburgh Bike Fitting RT, a low-cost, student-focused project that aims to keep young talent on the road—and in the lecture hall