Cycling Classes for New, Tentative, and Experienced Riders.

Cycling News

2026 Community Grants Awarded

The Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the Community Challenge Grant Awards for the 2026 funding cycle

2026 Ride of Silence (5/19/26 @ 7pm)

The 2026 Ride of Silence scheduled for May 19, 2026. We will organize and ride from the parking lot at Founder's Park (aka Farmer's Mkt). Please arrive by 6:30 pm to get your bike ready as we will depart the parking lot precisely at 7pm with police escort with the bell-chime from the tower. Additional information can be found under events.

Bike to Market, Maryville TN (May 2, 2026)

Bike to Market sponsored by Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation returns to the Maryville Farmers Market on May, 2, 2026. Visit our tent to learn more about the work of the Foundation and its work to improve bicycling safety in Tennessee.

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.

Sept 27, 2025

Register now for the September 2025 course

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