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The club has men and women who enjoy the sport of recreational cycling. We don't race. We leisurely ride the back roads of Sumner, Robertson, Davidson, Macon, Trousdale, Smith, and Wilson Counties. In addition to 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 eighty 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.
Bicycle riding has inherent risks of injury. ALL participants ride solely at their recognizance of that risk and that no other participant or the club assumes any responsibility of "due care" for them.
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.
We have NO FEES - NADA! We keep our operating costs next to ZERO by using FREE STUFF
Most of our rides have a post-ride social event. Feel free to join us to get better acquainted and re-fuel.
RIDE REQUIREMENTS
RIDE REQUIREMENTS
We do ask that you:
Are an adult. Minor children may join a ride only if accompanied on the ride by an adult who assumes full responsibility for the child.
Introduce yourself to the Ride Leader and describe your skill level and knowledge of the area. If you don't plan riding the entire course please tell the leader who tries to keep track of all riders to assure no one is dropped.
Bring the right equipment. You must have a helmet and, if riding in conditions with limited visibility, TN State Law requires that you have a bright front-light and rear reflector.
Obey all traffic laws and ride in a generally accepted safe manner so as potentially not to subject any participant to injury.
Please read "Basic Skills for Group Riding" by Gale Bernhardt.
HISTORY
HISTORY
The FOGBEES were formed in early 2006 and was one of the results of the Hendersonville Greenways Subcommittee of the Hendersonville Tomorrow Committee tasked by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
The name FOGBEES derived from a negative comment by Hendersonville Mayor Scott Foster. While Tom Evans, Chairman 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.
Only one member of the HGC, Frank Bowyer IV, was a high-speed biker. One member, Cathy Haley, didn't ride a bike and the rest of the committee -- Jamie Clary, Bruce Day, Doug Depew, Tom Evans, and David Hardin -- were far from high-speed bikers. Tom said, "We more like fat old guys on bikes." Bruce liked the term and frequently abbreviated FOGB in his group communications. That became FOGBees.
Also, YAZOO was in the club's origin. When this group was first evolving, some of the members, mostly Brett Dauer served "Growlers" of Yazoo beer at his home as our Beer after Biking social. Before we called ourselves FOGBEES, someone had the idea of calling ourselves the Yazoo Patrol. Maybe the brewery might offer us with free beer in exchange for the immense publicity associated with such a discriminating group.
When the idea was published, Justin Mitchell, a past chairman of the Hendersonville Greenways and avid mountain biker emailed us -- the idea was already taken.
Justin Mitchell, TEAM RE/MAX – Yazoo
Ambassadors of Fun
FOGBEE SPEAK
FOGBEE SPEAK
An Andrew - a cyclist you see at the beginning and end of the ride, but no where in between.
Bruced - jerry-rigged (if with duck tape its Ed-rigged)
Bumblebees - Fogbees designed for momentum, such as Bob
Cannonball - Bumblebee on a downhill who passes everyone and anyone
Doug-time - arriving five minutes after the ride starts
Fog-gary - spinning at the YMCA
Goat - cyclist with an affinity for hills
Honeybees - Fogbee Gals
Hounds - this group can't keep up with the Rabbits and are too fast to be Turtles.
Killerbees - Fogbees whose rides average better than 17mph on Tennessee hills.
Lites - Fogbees who rides averages 13 to 14 mph
Looy's Law - at the end of the ride when everyone is back on familiar ground, you're on your own to get back to the start/end. (used to be our club house at Big Looy's Pizza)
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 - aka Killer Bees.
Store - a "necessary" stop for the Lites and Honeybees.
Sweep - a cyclist whose tired of bustin' a - - .
Twelve-miler - afternoon metric with Bruce
Turtles - Fogbee group built for adventure, leisure, and casual rides -- not for speed.
Vicker-ied - fall off the rabbit pace to wait on turtles only to find turtles changed their route.
MEMORIAL
MEMORIAL
Gary Williams loved cycling.
Many of our pictures had Gary doing what he loved to do with the FOGBEES.
We will miss our good friend.
Party DJ
Party DJ
Cyclist
Cyclist
Fogbee Santa
Fogbee Santa
Gary Michael Williams, age 64, of Gallatin passed on August 29,2020.
A graduate of Memphis School of Law, he practiced law
in Sumner County for over 30 years.
Gary and his wife Lucy were avid cyclists with FOGBEE’s.
He was involved in several Philanthropic activities in Sumner County
including TN Teen Court.
Shannecy Michael Boone
Shannecy Michael Boone
February 19, 1972 — February 8, 2024
February 19, 1972 — February 8, 2024
Shannecy Boone, age 51, of Gallatin, Tennessee, passed away on Thursday, February 8, 2024.
Shannecy worked as an IT manager for Vanderbilt Hospital. In his personal time, Shannecy was a man with many hobbies. He was a great cook, avid bicyclist, and ran the Boone shine Family Christmas Light Show, in his neighborhood. He was also a member of the Rehoboth United Methodist Church, in Gallatin. Shannecy was a loving husband, father, and son, who will be dearly missed.
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