Our Staff
Cookeville TN Bicycle Specialist
Caney Fork Cycles is staffed by the best, most knowledgeable employees in the Upper Cumberland. We know our products like the back of our hands because we use them all the time, and we enjoy them just as much as you will!
Thad Hoffman
What Thad Does: Thad’s love of riding his bike in the woods and on all manner of country roads began at age 3 thanks to his father and rural Illinois upbringing. Decades later he still rides his bike on all manner of roads and trails. Preferably all types on each ride. An avid racer and rider, from early 2000’s unsupported gravel races all on singlespeeds (Trans Iowa, DK, Gravel Grovel, Southern Cross), to endurance mtb (DSG, 12 hours of Tsali, Snake Creek Gap, and more), cyclocross, road, Xterra Triathlons, and even a podium at Race Across the West, his knowledge and experience runs deep, but his thirst for fun and adventure trump all. From bikepacking trips in foreign lands to charting uncharted adventure rides across the US, plotting packrafting treks, to riding with his dogs and ice cream stops (thanks dad) it is all part of the his natural cycling DNA.
JD and River
What JD and River Do: JD has been Thad’s loyal adventure buddy for 11.5 years now. From Tennessee hills and hollers to the high mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, and Canada, to the plains of Kansas and Nebraska – JD has done it all. Trails, water, snow, doesn’t matter as long as it leads to adventure (or food, preferably food).
River is a new member to the tribe. Discovered discarded, starving, and dying of Parvo in the woods, she has overcome great odds and is learning the rewards of being an adventure dog and slowly being shown the ropes to good shop dog behavior by JD. According to him, she still has a long way to go.
Nick Stone
What Nick Rides: Trek Top Fuel
Adam DeGardeyn
What Adam does: Adam works on bicycles. He has been a bike mechanic for over 18 years and hails from the hills of West Virginia via a lengthy stopover in Nashville where he fancied himself a bike racer, a fancy bike racer covered in spandex (and eventually road rash).
What Adam Rides: Adam rides cobbled together bikes so that he can test his mechanical aptitude, and also because he is a cheapskate. He rides road and mountain bikes and sometimes a mountain unicycle (MUni) when he’s feeling froggy.
Bike Related Accomplishments:
Rode his single speed road bike over 700 miles in 5 days from Nashville, TN to Morgantown, WV.
Raced a bunch of mountain bike events in TN and got a State Champion Jersey out of it.
Still cannot ride a wheelie despite much practice. That is more of a fail, but still sadly notable.
Adam has run onto four dogs but only crashed because of it twice.
Alex Parks
What Alex Does: Alex is the fixed gear fiend. Road or off-road, this loose unit loves it all especially when coasting can’t happen. He’s also a pretty darn good musician too! Handy with the tools and the tunes.
What Ruthie Rides: Brother Cycles Big Bro Fixed Gear MTB, Trek Fuel EX, MASI Fixed Track Bike