Who Are the FOGBEES

FOGBEE RIDE GROUPS

LITE Riders

Experience: New to road cycling in a group.

Distance: (two distances offered)

- Weekday: not scheduled.

- Weekend: 30 miles (2-1/2 hr) and 45 miles (3-1/2 hr)

Average speed:

- Lead: 13 to 14 mph

- Trail: 12 to 13 mph

Rest Stops: Frequent always with one or two on a ride.

Minimum Equipment:

- Road, Touring, or Hybrid Bike

- Helmet

Start Location: Varies by route, long ride starts at

Big Looy's

Communication: Blog

Meetings: Saturdays

FOGBEES started as a group to help new cyclists get into the sport of Group Riding, which has big advantages over riding by yourself:

- Safety: someone to help with mechanical failures or accident prevention

- Skills: improvement is more rapid with help.

- Comradery: someone with whom to talk or to negate your excuses for not riding.

The Club has two ride Groups: Class B Riders and Lite Riders

You can ride alone, but group riding is significantly more rewarding.

CLASS B Riders

Experience: Familar & comfortable in a paceline.

Distance:

- Weekday: 25 to 35 miles (2 hr)

- Weekend: 45 to 60 miles (4 hr)

Average speed: (Two pelotons)

- Killer Bees: 17 to 18 mph

- Worker Bees: 15 to 16 mph

Rest Stops: Infrequent to re-group

Minimum Equipment:

- Road Bike Only

- Helmet

Start Location: Usually Big Looy's

Communication: Blog

Meetings: Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Saturdays.

WHO ARE THE FOGBEES?

The FOGBEES is a club of men and women who enjoy the sport of recreational cycling for pleasure and exercise. We don't race and we leisurely ride the back roads of Sumner, Robertson, and Davidson Counties. In addition to four rides during the week, the Club schedules over-night rides to Tennessee State Parks, B&B's, regional bike trails to which non-riding significant others are invited to join.

Our members range in age from middle-twenties to seventy and in size from tiny to 360 pounds. If you want to ride and can peddle for thirty miles, we have a ride group that will suit your skill.

Besides road cycling the club has parties and spin-classes at the Sumner County YMCA, plus all our rides end in socialing for re-hydration and re-feuling.

The Club has no dues or formal meetings. We casually meet at post-ride re-hydration or over the Blog. We have no formal organization, but appreciate every member taking his/her turn leading or participating in the leadership of some aspect of our club activities.

JOIN THE FOGBEES

Joining the FOGBEES is easy. Show up for one of our Group Rides and introduce yourself to the Ride Leader. Normally, the Ride Leader will identify himself or herself to anyone that looks like a NEWBEE. Most rides leave from Big Looy's Pizza, but watch the BLOG for the time and schedule, because it changes as daylight and temperatures change.

If after the ride you still want to join, please write down your name, address, telephone #, e-mail address, and emergency telephone number and give it to the ride leader. We'll send you an invitation to participate in our Blog.

RIDES START/STOP AT BIG LOOY'S

Most rides start and end at Big Looy's Pizza (click to see map). It is in the back of the small strip mall at the corner of Gallatin Rd (Main St or 31W) and Bonita (a.k.a. the old Walmart Mall or Sears Outlet Mall or the old Bikers' Choice Shop)

FOGBEE HISTORY

Last week I was clearing up some of my posts that were more like personal emails than of general interest. Among them was the Yazoo jersey post in response to Gary's question as to how Yazoo fit into the FOGBEE history. Ap-parently there was considerable general interest in the Yazoo story so here it is.

When this group was first evolving, some of the members, mostly Bret in my memory, served "Growlers" of Yazoo beer at his home. Someone had the idea of calling ourselves the Yazoo patrol and reqesting Yazoo supply us with free beer in exchange for the immense publicity associated with such a discriminating group. Justin Mitchell, a past chairman of the Hendersonville Greenways and avid mountain biker emailed us the idea was already taken. On further discussion, he suggested we had more in common than it first appeared, mostly our self deprecating approach to cycling. He invited us to order and wear the jersey's and hang out at their raucous events. Back then the only examples of the jersey were the standard bodyless ones so our interst was not so much. But I still much appreciate their slogan "We didn't come to win, but we might."

. . . Bruce Day

YAZOO PATROL - WHO ARE YOU?

http://bikinhville.homestead.com/News/Mar07.html

Tom, Great to hear from you! Tell everybody “trying to fight city hall” that I said hello and I think of you guys all the time. I would love to check in some time and say hi and see how things have progressed. I agree that if you give up now it will be too late for Hendersonville to ever make a real comeback. With all the development taking place at the moment someone has to at least make people aware that it needs to be done upfront and incorporated into the development plan. If you let the developers say they will do it later, it will never happen. If I can ever help make something happen, just give me a call I would love to help in the fight in anyway.

Later, Justin Mitchell

TEAM RE/MAX – Yazoo

Ambassadors of Fun

The membership of the Hendersonville Chapter of the Yazoo Patrol or otherwise known as Fat Old Guys on Bikes continues to grow. We ride every weekend and then take time for a little socializing with BABs (Beer after Biking, preferably Yazoo, but we aren't picky.) We now have our own neighborhood Biker's Bar, where black leather is replaced by spandex. You don't have to BAB's it to join us. Gatorade is an acceptable substitute. But, biking for fun is necessary. Thus far, ages range from 40 to 70.

From Where Did the FOGBEE Monicker Derive?

Little known, the name FOGBEES resulted of negative comment by Hendersonville Mayor Scott Foster. While Tom Evans was presenting the goals of the Hendersonville Greenways Committee (HGC) in May 2006 to the Board of Aldermen and Mayor, Mayor Foster retorted that HGC was only interested in building facilities for high-speed bikers. He continued with public statements to that effect anytime the HGC tried to promote the development of pedestrian and biking facilites and Greenways for Hendersonville.

Only one member of the HGC, Frank Bowyer IV, could be identified as a high-speed biker. One member, Cathy Haley, didn't ride a bike at all and the rest of us -- Jamie Clary, Bruce Day, Doug Depew, Tom Evans, and David Hardin -- were far from high-speed bikers; we were more like fat old guys on bikes.

The goal of the HGC has always been to promote Greenways, such as the FOGBEES have experienced in tours of Nashville, White House, and Madison County, for a Quality of Life benefit for citizens of all ages and abilities.

So now you know the whole story.

. . . Tom Evans

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