Joe Capezza & Jill Albro help children at local bike rodeo

The Highland Rim Bicycle Club’s membership drive for 2016 is in full swing. On a recent club ride long-time club member, Rick Orzino, recommended we let potential club members know about the club’s community involvement. He started listing projects and once again a club member’s great idea takes flight; becoming the topic of our monthly newsletter sent to current club members and the website homepage.

HRBike members ride bikes A LOT but we are also very involved in the community. We educate people of all ages about cycling; teaching bike safety, maintenance, health, and advocacy. And, in addition to riding the roads, we also help keep them clean.

Here is how HRBike members help out in local schools: Joe Capezza and club members repaired bikes & encouraged kids at a bike rodeo at New Union Elementary School (photo above). Jessie Schwer coordinated Re-cycle Tullahoma at local middle schools, where we helped students build a “new” bike from used ones. Tim & Julia Harrison and volunteers helped the American Heritage Girls with cycling badges. We worked with Tullahoma’s Sunrise Rotary and Woody’s Bicycles to award a bike & helmet to several deserving students at East Lincoln Elementary School; Tim Harrison gave bike safety tips to all the students at these events. And, for many years, proceeds from our annual group ride the Elk River Valley 100, were presented to Motlow Community College for use as a scholarships.

Also, HRBike members “Keep Tullahoma Clean” by periodically picking up roadside trash on Hwy 130; Hunter Norris will be coordinating this community project for 2016. Thanks Keena Cornelius for heading up the project for the past several years.

Interested in membership? Yearly membership is just $20 for individuals or $25 for a family. If you would like to be a part of a vibrant club that is involved in many aspects of cycling: education, safety, health, advocacy and also very involved in the community, HRBike is for you!

As the saying goes, “Membership has privileges,” new for 2016 HRBike members will receive monthly newsletters via email highlighting club activities and more. Members will be eligible for special goodies found only in these monthly publications. And, also new this year Results Physiotherapy offers members a free 15-minute screening. (Call Kathy for an appointment)

Membership Benefits:

• 10% OFF at MOAB, Murfreesboro and Franklin, TN locations
• 10% OFF at Woody’s Bicycles, Sewanee, TN
• 10% OFF at Trace Bicycles, Nashville, TN
• Specially arranged “member only” discounts through group purchases
• Invitations to “member only” training clinics held periodically throughout the year
• General liability and participant accident insurance while on club organized rides
• Support of cycling advocacy organizations across the nation
• Free 15-minute screening at Results Physiotherapy (by appointment)
• Monthly newsletter

It is our goal to make our area more bicycle-friendly. We would love for you to join us as a member of the Highland Rim Bicycle club…together we can make a difference in our community.