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!
Whine Like a Man
Team Bubba
Saturday 7/25
It looks like the rain has been mostly taken out of the forecast, so we will proceed with our original plan. Roll from Haletown (I-24 Exit 161) for a trip up Stagecoach Road and back via South Pittsburg. After party at the Guild Market.
When: 9:00 a.m. EDT
Where: Haletown, TN
Stats: 61 miles and 4,662 ft
Store stop at Citgo at mile 48.4 in South Pittsburg
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
August 2026
Here are the Elite rides for Saturdays in August. Watch this site early on the Saturday of the ride for weather related cancelations and updates.
August 1 – We’ll start from the old Food City in St. Elmo at 8:30 am to ride up Chattanooga Valley to Mountain Cove Farms and return via Hog Jowl Road. Water stop at the end of the valley at mile 30.
63 miles and 3,000 feet of climbing (with no mountain climbs).
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50191382
August 8 – Roll from the old Food City in St. Elmo at 8:30 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
August 15 – Tour de Mowbray. Start from the paved parking lot across from the Falling Water Baptist Church at 8:30 am to climb Retro Hughes Road and ride around the top of Mowbray Mountain. Store stop at the Dollar General in Lewis Chapel at mile 32.
49 miles and 3,250 feet of climbing.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50474830
August 22 – Start at 8:30 am from the Patten Community Center in Tiftonia to ride the length of Creek Road through Lookout Valley. We’ll ride the rollers on McKaig Road before a store stop in Trenton at mile 30. Climbs Sand Mountain.
53 miles and 3,200 feed of climbing.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/56335506
August 29 – It been almost a year since we started from the Battlefield. Roll at 8:30 am from the Park HQ to do a big loop around Chickamauga. Store stop at mile 28.
50 miles, 2,400 feet with no climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/56336136
Thursday, August 20 – WEEKDAY SPECIAL – Sandblaster Gravel Ride. We’ll hope for better weather this time. Start from the Dollar General in Rising Fawn at 9 am. The out-and-back climb up Lookout Mountain on Newsome Gap Road near the end of the ride is optional.
39 miles and 2800 feet (without Newsome Gap).
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/55077733
September 1 – Traditional holiday ride. 36 miles and 2000 feet of climbing. Details TBD.
September 6 -Start in Red Back to ride to Soddy. 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.