Cycling News
Request for Proposals: The JRCF 2025 Community Grants funding cycle is accepting proposals through April 1, 2025
Proposals for the 2025 Community Grants program are being accepted through April 1, 2025. Projects that promote bicycling as a safe and health form of recreation and transportation at the grassroot community level have the highest probability of funding.
Download a copy of the JRCF Grant Application following this link.
2024 Community Grants Awarded
The Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the Community Challenge Grant Awards for the 2024 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 (2024)
The Jeff Roth Cycling Foundation is offering Smart Cycling instruction at the Blount County Library on these dates in 2024.
Sept 21, 2024
Register now for the September 2024 course
2024 League Cycling Instructor Seminar (Registration closed)
Save the Date: The JRCF 2024 League Cycling Instructor Seminar at Henry Horton State Park has been scheduled for September 27-29, 2024
Chapel Hill TN 2024 LCI Seminar
3 Foot Law
Jeff Roth and Brian Brown Bicycle Protection Act
The Jeff Roth and Brian Brown Bicycle Protection Act of 2007 was signed into law on May 3, 2007, by Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen. Tennessee joins a handful of states that have moved forward to further protect cyclists on our roadways.
Passed without opposition in both the House and Senate, this act provides that "the operator of a motor vehicle when overtaking and passing a bicycle proceeding in the same direction on the roadway, shall leave a safe distance between the motor vehicle and the bicycle of not less than three feet (3') and shall maintain such clearance until safely past the overtaken bicycle." A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
Here is a copy of the Jeff Roth and Brian Brown Bicycle Protection Act of 2007
Other Organizations Promoting Safe Cycling
Nashville Bike Fun
Bike Walk Tennessee
League of American Bicyclists
People for Bikes
Safe Routes
Bike Law USA
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