About us

FOGBEES started as a group to help new cyclists get into 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.

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

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

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. 
 
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

                                                    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. Apparently 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 requesting 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 interest 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?

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
Where Did We Get the FOGBEE Name?

    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.
    
. . .  Tom Evans


FOGBEE SPEAK

An Andrew - a cyclist you see at the beginning and end of the ride, but no where in between.
Bruced - jerry-rigged
Bumblebees - Fogbees designed for momentum, such as Bob
Cannonball - Bumblebee on a downhill who passes everyone and anyone
Doug-time - arriving five minute after the ride starts
Fog-gary - spinning at the YMCA
Goat - cyclist with an affinity for hills
Honeybees - Fogbee Lites
Killerbees - Fogbees whose rides average better than 17mph
Lites - Fogbees who rides averages 13 to 14 mph
A Miley - a cyclist whose face you see only at the beginning of a ride, and his back thereafter.
Newbee - new Fogbee cyclist
PUC - pointless (or painful) uphill climb
Rabbits - lead group on a Fogbee ride
Store - a "necessary" stop for the Lites
Sweep - a cyclist whose tired of bustin' a . .
Twelve-miler - afternoon metric with Bruce
Turtles - trail group on a Fogbee ride
Vicker-ied - fall off the rabbit pace to wait on turtles only to find turtles changed their route.