Jay Wilkes is the former president and current treasurer of the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association- Woodstock Chapter. SORBA Woodstock is a non-profit group that is responsible for the Blankets Creek and Taylor Randahl Memorial Mountain Bike trails in Cherokee County and works with Cherokee County Recreation and Parks (CRPA) and Woodstock City Parks to manage the 30 miles of trails with use of volunteers and community financial donations.
Jay has been involved with SORBA Woodstock since 2003, serving on the board of directors since 2006 and president from 2008 -2023. Growing up as an Atlanta native in the 80’s, Jay spent his childhood trailblazing new trails to ride his bike in the woods near his house in Clayton County. Biking took a hiatus while in high school and college. One day in 1998, a college friend asked him to try mountain biking for the first time and he immediately fell back in love with riding. Since that day, Jay has found his way back to trail building and advocacy like he did when he was a child.
Over the past 2 decades, Jay and the bike community at SORBA Woodstock have built and maintained 15 miles of MTB trails at Blankets Creek Bike Park off Sixes Road along with 15 miles of MTB trails at Olde Rope Mill Park in Woodstock. Their effort has been done off the backs of volunteers and through financial donations contributed by members of the community. There is much work that has been accomplished over the past 2 decades with much more mileage and trails yet to come.
