SCOTT Sports is a cycling brand founded in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 1958. Its North American headquarters is in Ogden, Utah.
Greg LeMond won the 1989 Tour de France by eight seconds, still the smallest winning margin in the race's history, and in the final time trial he rode with a SCOTT aero handlebar. The company that made it had started 31 years earlier with a ski pole. Its American arm is now run from Ogden.
In 1958, in Sun Valley, Idaho, engineer and skier Ed Scott made that pole from aluminum instead of bamboo or steel. Motocross goggles followed in 1970. SCOTT moved into Europe in 1978, and its main office is now in Givisiez, Switzerland. South Korea's Youngone Corporation owns the company.
SCOTT USA had a warehouse in Ogden before it moved its US office to Salt Lake City in September 2013. By October 2025 the company was calling Ogden its US headquarters. A company representative told Cycling West that goggle manufacturing was already in Utah, and that Utah was a little easier to get to than Sun Valley. The bikes, the representative said, were designed in Switzerland and built overseas.
In June 2026 SCOTT USA opened the Ogden warehouse to other brands as a third party logistics service. The company that started with a ski pole now has enough shelf space to rent some out.
SCOTT's 2001 Team Issue road bike frame weighed 895 grams, the lightest frame available at the time.
Great bikes, and it's nice to have a big bike brand right here. They always nail the design.
Alex
