We’re a cycling group that’s been riding in the Chattanooga area for more than 25 years. Bubba isn’t affiliated with a club team or shop so you’re welcome to ride with Bubba regardless of the jersey you wear so long as it has sleeves. (If it doesn’t, even your family doesn’t want to see you so buy a TT bike and learn to be alone.) Show up Saturday, get heckled about your stupid looking socks or sunglasses, embrace your new nickname, and BeABubba too!
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Team Bubba
TB Sat. 11/15
This week Bubba will roll from Tunnel Hill at 9:00 for a trip down to Little Sand Mountain and Subligna. This should be a beautiful fall ride with excellent looking weather. After party at Pueblo Viejo Mexican Grill, 101 Cottonwood Mill Rd, Tunnel Hill, GA 30755.
When: 9:00 a.m.
Where: Tunnel Hill, GA, please park in the lot next to the RR tracks, away from the museum
Stats: 67.0 miles and 3,368 ft
Store Stop at Subligna Food Mart, mile 41.6
The nature of the ride - Pace ranges from conversational to brisk. There are always a few re-grouping points during the first half of the ride. This is the ride for the strongest cyclists in the club.
Bubba Elite
November 2025
Here are the Elite rides for Saturdays in November. Start times could change during the week of the ride for forecast cold conditions. Watch this site early on the Saturday of the ride for other weather related updates.
SPECIAL WEEKDAY RIDE – Thursday, November 13 – An old favorite road bike ride returns. Start at 10 am from the Oostemeck pull-off on the Skyway (TN-165) just before the Tellico River Road for the 40-mile out and back beside the Tellico River. Easy 2 to 3 percent grade for the first 18 miles followed by a 2 mile climb up the ridge to the edge of the Tellico watershed. Optional 9 mile loop at the end where we’ll climb the Skyway to Turkey Creek Road. From there, we’ll take the short decent back to River Road. Lunch somewhere in Tellico Plains afterwards.
November 1 – There are two options. Both start at Powell’s Crossroads City Hall at 9 am EDT to rendezvous with the TB ‘Freddy’ ride after a climb up the west side of Sequatchie Valley. You can climb Daus Mountain — or Freddy-traditionalists wanting to group up with TB sooner and get more miles in can climb Fredonia Mountain. Routes split at Chapel Hill Methodist at mile 11. Both routes include a store stop in Palmer at about mile 35.
(1) Old Men – 48 miles, 3,500 feet, climb Daus Mtn.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53153092
(2) Recent TB Graduates – 56 miles, 3,800 feet, climb Fredonia Mtn.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/52879798
November 8 – Start at Red Bank Elementary at 9 am for a clock-wise loop up to Soddy and back. Store stop at the Circle K at mile 25. The ride will split in Soddy so that those wanting more can climb Hot Water Road.
49 miles, 2,500 feet with no climbs
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53153791
November 15 – Roll from the Food City in St. Elmo at 9 am to ride to New England and back via Murphy Hollow. No store stops planned.
43 Miles, 2,300 feet and no climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53153955
November 22 – We’re headed back to Sequatchie Valley to start at 9 am EST from the old Chapel Hill Methodist church to ride south to Shell Mound and back. Store stop at mile 42 in Whitwell. This is a second attempt to do the ride that was washed out in September.
56 miles and 2,600 feet with no climbs
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/52517473
November 28 – Need to work off some Turkey? Join us on Friday for a spin at 1 pm for an out and back on Cash Canyon Road finishing down US 41 on the other side of Raccoon Mountain. Start at the John A. Patten Community Center in Tiftonia.
30 miles, 2,600 feet, Climb Elder Mtn Road.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53153473
November 29 – We’ll snake our way around some of our favorite roads in Soddy-Daisy and Sale Creek. Start from the parking lot across from Falling Water Baptist Church at 9 am. Store stop at the Country Mart at mile 27.
49 miles and 2,500 feet. No climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/51962277
December 6 – It was an hot August day the last time we did this ride. St. Elmo to Captain Wood Road. 53 miles. Time TBD.
The nature of the ride - Elite rides honor Team Bubba traditions (lots of heckling) but might be a little shorter and definitely includes more stops and regrouping. The Elite ride is a good entry point to Team Bubba for fit cyclists.