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Cycling News

2025 Community Grant Cycle is closed

The 2025 Community Grant program is closed to applications for the current funding cycle. The Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation thanks all who submitted grants by the March 25 deadline and anticipates announcing the recipients of the 2025 Community Challenge Grant Awards soon.

Middle TN Veloteers Promote STR License Plate

Our friend Bill Anderson and the Middle TN Veloteers promoted the STR license plate recently in the Bike Ride across Wilson County @ the TN State Fair and The Elk River Valley 100 during the Labor Day Weekend. Thanks for your Efforts. Ride Fast, Live Slow and always keep the rubber side down.

2025 League Cycling Instructor Seminar

Save the Date: The JRCF 2025 League Cycling Instructor Seminar at Henry Horton State Park has been scheduled for September 26-28, 2025

Chapel Hill TN 2025 LCI Seminar

Smart Cycling Traffic Skills Courses (2025)

The Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation is offering Smart Cycling instruction at the Blount County Library on these dates in 2025.

May 31, 2025

Register now for the May 2025 course

Sept 27, 2025

Register now for the September 2025 course

The 2025 Ride of Silence

May 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM local time worldwide

We are pleased to announce the annual Ride of Silence (ROS) scheduled for May 21, 2025, leaving from the Maryville Courthouse as in previous years. Please visit the ROS website, www.rideofsilence.org for more information.

Cycling Classes for New, Tentative, and Experienced Riders.

Perhaps you "just got back into riding" and that new E-bike has you on the greenway with the passion and enthusiasm you last experienced when you were a kid?

The Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation offers a variety of League of American Cyclists developed bicycle instruction classes for persons at all levels of experience.  We offer Learn to Ride, Smart Cycling, and Group riding Classes.  All classes require a bicycle in working order, and a helmet.  

 

If you have never ridden, we have taught several adults and children how to ride. Our certified instructors can get you on wheels too!

 

If it has been a long time since you have been out on your bike, or you would like to gain more confidence in riding on the road, our Smart Cycling Class provides information on the laws, proper lane positioning, how to ride in traffic, crash avoidance, bike handling skills, and a short group ride.  Even if you are an experienced cyclist, there is information in this course you will find valuable.

 

Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting cycling, through advocacy and education, as a safe and healthy form of recreation and transportation.  All our instructors are League of American Cyclist Certified.  Classes are free and supported through the "Share the Road" license plate. Donations, however, and donations are always welcome.  If interested contact us today at:

 

Jay Snyder snyder1971@me.com, 865-803-4412

Donna Dixon donnasuedixon@hotmail.com, 865-803-8887

Smart Cycling Traffic Skills Course

September 21, 2024 (9am to 12pm)

Smart Cycling Traffic Skills Course

September 21, 2024 (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

Blount County Public Library, 508 N. Cusick Street, Maryville, TN 37804

Free Course, Pre-registration Required

Register online:

Smart Cycling Traffic Skills Course

Contact instructor Jay Snyder 865-803-4412 for course information and registration or e-mail Jay@jeffrothcyclingfoundation.org

The League of American Bicyclists Instructor Certification Seminar 2025

September 26-28, 2025

The League’s Smart Cycling program is delivered nationally by over 2,000 League Cycling Instructors. The Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation fulfills its mission to promote safe cycling by providing opportunities for Tennessee cyclists to become League Certified Instructors during its annual seminar weekend. Qualified candidates will learn how to deliver the League Smart Cycling Program and become credentialed instructors. The JCRF offers a limited number of scholarships to encourage TN communities to identify instructor-candidates with interest in development and promotion of local Smart Cycling Programs. Additional information about the League's LCI and Smart Cycling programs are available at Smart Cycling | League of American Bicyclists.

Persons interested in attending the 2025 LCI Seminar sponsored by JRCF must Register HERE with this link Chapel Hill TN 2025 LCI Seminar.

Other Organizations Promoting Safe Cycling

Nashville Bike Fun

Bike Walk Tennessee

League of American Bicyclists

People for Bikes

Safe Routes

Bike Law USA