Hello: I am coming up from Knoxville for the High School Basketball tournament (3/13-3/16) and plan to bring my bike. I am really just looking for recommendations of safe areas to ride. Because of time constraints I am looking for rides between 10-20 miles and hopefully paved since I am only bringing my road bike.
Brian-there’s lots of great riding in Rutherford County. If you go to www.ridewithgps.com and search for rides in the area, you’ll find plenty of choices. I label our club rides with MBC at then end, so is you use that, you should be able to find a route to suit your needs.
If you’d like a specific ride from where you are staying or from MTSU Campus - email me and I’ll put a 10-20 mile route together for you.
Sarah: Thank you so very much. I will check out and I'm sure I will find something to meet my needs. This is a really cool site I wish Knoxville had something similar. They may have it with mountain bikes but after a certain age I knew I needed to stay on the less dangerous terrains. I started riding in earnest years ago in Northern Virginia which pretty much spoils you because there are so many paved trails. But Knoxville has a few pretty good and scenic ones.
If I have additional concerns I will reach out but I am sure I can find something to just get the kinks out in lieu of working out at the hotel.
It's difficult to find a bad road if you start at Lascassas Baptist Church.
Park in the lot on the far end of the church. Ride out Barlow and go in any direction. Cainsville Pike and Lascassas Pike are the roads with the fastest cars and is the least interesting so choose any other and you'll be fine.