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★ Eagle requiredEdition 2026Active Merit Badge
Cycling
Official Requirements & Fillable Workbook · 2026 Edition
Cycling is an Eagle-required badge about fitness, self-reliance, and the freedom of two wheels. You will learn traffic laws and bike handling skills, perform regular safety checks and mechanical maintenance, and complete a progressive series of endurance rides — either on paved roads culminating in a 50-mile road tour, or on trails culminating in a 22-mile mountain bike trip.
Key Requirements Covered:
- Bicycle Maintenance & Roadside Repairs
- Traffic Laws, Signals & Helmet Safety
- Cycling Conditioning & Ergonomics
- Long-Distance Endurance Rides
7Printable Pages
6Requirements
2026Reqs Revised
What is on the worksheet: Cycling Requirements
Every requirement for the Cycling merit badge, word for word as published, with room to write under each one on the printed worksheet.
1Hazards, Safety Principles, and First Aid
Do the following:
- a Explain to your counselor the most likely hazards you may encounter while participating in cycling activities and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, and respond to these hazards. Explain to your counselor how to ride predictably, be conspicuous, think ahead, and ride ready.
- b Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while cycling, including cuts, scratches, concussions, blisters, sunburn, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, hypothermia, frostbite, dehydration, insect stings, tick bites, and snakebite. Explain to your counselor why you should be able to identify the poisonous plants and poisonous animals that are found in your area.
2Traffic Laws and Road Riding
Describe your state and local laws concerning bicycles. Discuss what is the same and what is different from laws applying to motor vehicles. Explain where and how you should ride on roads and streets to include lane position, changing lanes, making left and right turns, and riding through intersections.
3Clothing, Gear, and Safety Guidelines
Explain the importance of wearing the right clothing and gear while cycling, including a properly sized and fitted helmet. Know the Scouting America Bike Safety Guidelines.
4Bicycle Inspection and Maintenance
Using a bicycle safety checklist, clean and adjust a bicycle and present it to your counselor for inspection. Do the following:
- a Show points that should be checked regularly to make sure the bicycle is safe to ride.
- b Show how to adjust the saddle and handlebars for a proper fit.
- c Show how to adjust brakes and gear shifting (derailleurs).
- d Show all points that need regular lubrication.
- e Show how to repair a flat by removing the tire, replacing or patching the tube, and remounting the tire.
- f Show that the bicycle meets local laws.
5Bicycle Handling Skills
Demonstrate basic bicycle handling skills to your counselor, to include how to properly mount your bicycle, starting and stopping (to include emergency stops), riding in a straight line, turning, shifting gears, scanning, and signaling.
6Biking Options
Using the Scouting America buddy system, complete all of the requirements for ONE of the following options: Road Biking OR Trail or Mixed Surface Biking.
- Option A Option A—Road Biking. Do ALL of the following:
- Option B Option B—Trail or Mixed Surface Biking. Do ALL of the following: Note: These requirements may be completed using a mountain bike or other properly equipped, manually-powered cycle such as a gravel bike, tandem bike, hand-powered bike, recumbent bike, adult tricycle, or adaptive cycle. If a tandem bike is used, the Scout must actively power the cycle in concert with the other rider.
Two dates, two different things
Requirements Revision vs. Worksheet Date
Scouting America last revised the Cycling requirements in 2026. That is the badge, not this sheet — an older year does not mean the worksheet is out of date.
Verbatim Fidelity & Verification
This worksheet was checked against https://www.scouting.org/merit-badges/cycling/ in Aug 2026 and reproduces the requirements word for word. Both dates are printed on the sheet, so a copy in a binder can always be placed in time.
Requirement text is © Scouting America, reproduced verbatim. The worksheet layout and design are original to this project.
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