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. 10/4
For Bubbas not riding Cycle Sequatchie, we will roll from River Drifters at 8:30 for a Signal Suck Loop.
When: 8:30 a.m.
Where: River Drifters
Stats: 51.5 miles and 4,439 ft
Store stop at mile 39.1
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
October 2025
Here are the Elite rides for Saturdays in October. Watch this site early on the Saturday of the ride for any weather related updates.
October 4 – Cycle Sequatchie
While on-line registration has closed, you can register Saturday morning before the ride. Many good ride options are available. See the Cycle Sequatchie web site https://www.cyclesequatchie.com/ for information on rides and start times. The Elites are going to ride the 40 mile mixed-surface ride that starts at 8 am CT in downtown Dunlap. Gravel or mountain bike required. This ride is not marked on the road — so be sure to download the route.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45185455
October 11 – Start from Red Bank Elementary on Mountain Creek Road at 9 am to ride to Soddy and back on familiar roads. We’ll climb Mobray mountain on Mountain Road and descend Hot Water. Store stop at Mile 28.
50 miles, 3,100 feet with 1 mountain climb
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50970073
October 18 – Assuming that the shut-down is over, we’ll start from the Battlefield Park HQ at 9 am to do a big loop around Chickamauga. Store stop at Mile 24.
47 miles, 2500 feet with no climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/52874573
October 25 – The Fall colors in the Tennessee River Gorge should be beautiful for this ride that takes us through Mullins Cove. Start in the grass lot across from River Drifters at 9 am to ride to ‘Goat’s Bridge’ and back. It’s some sort of tarmac all the way and is manageable on a road bike — but a gravel bike is preferred.
40 miles and 2,300 feet with no climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50284294
November 1 – Halloween means it’s time for Freddy. Elites will start at the Powell’s Crossroads City Hall (time TBD) to rendezvous with TB after the Fredonia Mountain climb. 56 miles and 3,800 feet.
Later in November – We’re going to try again to do the 56 mile ride in Sequatchie Valley that was washed out on September 6. The ride starts at the Chapel Hill Methodist church and goes south to Shell Mound and back.
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.