Events

Cycling News

2025 Community Grants Awarded

The Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the Community Challenge Grant Awards for the 2025 funding cycle

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.

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.

July 19, 2025

Register now for the July 2025 course

Sept 27, 2025

Register now for the September 2025 course

The 2025 Ride of Silence

This year's ride has been canceled due to short notice conflict.

We are sorry to announce the annual Ride of Silence (ROS) scheduled for May 21, 2025, is canceled this year due to short notice conflict with another event occurring in the city park and requirieng use of the Maryville Courthouse parking lot.  Thank you for your patience.

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:

 

Donna Dixon donna@jeffrothcyclingfoundation.org 865-803-8887

Smart Cycling Traffic Skills Course

July 19, 2025 (9 am to 2 pm)

Smart Cycling Traffic Skills Course

July 19, 2025 (10:00 AM – 2:00 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 Donna Dixon 865-803-4412 for course information and registration or e-mail Donna@jeffrothcyclingfoundation.org

Other Organizations Promoting Safe Cycling

Nashville Bike Fun

Bike Walk Tennessee

League of American Bicyclists

People for Bikes

Safe Routes

Bike Law USA