Team Bubba Cycling Club

Whine Like a Man

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!

Team Bubba

TB 5/20 – 22

FALL CREEK FALLS BUBBA BASH

Friday: Riders roll from 4219 Lundy Mtn Lane, Signal. Elite ride rolls at 12:30 and TB at 1:00. A metric and 4300 feet including a nasty climb. Plenty of parking if you want to leave a car. Should be plenty of cars at the park to grab a ride back Sunday. (The park is less than an hour’s drive from Signal and just over an hour to Chatt.) https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38696786

Saturday: Riders roll at 9:00 EDT from the Bub Hub (25 High Meadows Drive, Spencer, TN) for another metric with a climb. (You can still get a metric and avoid the climb by turning before we descend.) WE ARE ROLLING FROM THE BUB HUB AND WE’LL PLUG INTO THE ROUTE. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38696866

Sunday: Riders roll at 8:30 from the Bub Hub (25 High Meadows Drive, Spencer, TN) for a 38 mile spin. Those who need to check out can leave their stuff at the Bub Hub. Only an hour drive back to Signal or Chatt so we plan to have a full day Sunday. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38696799

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

Sat. 5/21 On Vacation

Bubba’s on vacation at Fall Creek Falls. For those that couldn’t make the trip I suggest someone hijack Boss’s email list and post a ride. Have fun.

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.

Bubba Stuff

Other Rides

TB Red Bank Tuesday

TB rolls at 5:30 from the “old” BiLo in Red Bank at the corner of Dayton Blvd and Browntown Rd. Remember to park at the end away from B&B Discount AND WHATEVER YOU DO PLEASE DON’T PEE ANYWHERE NEAR THE SHOPPING CENTER (THAT INCLUDES NOT PEEING IN THE WOODS BESIDE THE CENTER). Let’s also remember (i) to be courteous to traffic (including climbing Hotwater single file) and (ii) that this ride is a GROUP RIDE with mandatory regrouping points at Dayton Pike, end of Frontage, the foot washing church, and the bank after the descent.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38832308

Sunday Afternoon Ride

This standing year-round ride starts from the Walden Town Hall at 2 PM. It’s 22 miles at a recovery pace that includes several sprint points. For those wanting a little more, climb the front of Signal first.

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Typical Holiday Ride

For all Bubbas and bubba want-ta-bes, this ride moves along at a social pace for 39 miles and includes the full length of Missionary Ridge and loops through Chickamauga Battlefield.

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Thursday

(During daylight savings time) ride departs promptly at 5:30PM from the Chickamauga Battlefield parking lot. Route varies somewhat every week, but expect 30+ miles on this under 2-hour Fly-lead ride.

Downtown Lunch Ride

This Elite-style ride has a firm roll-time of 11:45 from the downtown YMCA. Based on work schedules, some days you might be by yourself. Ride time is about 90 minutes and sometimes includes a mountain climb.

Ride Smart

Rides are on open roads so obey traffic rules, WEAR A HELMET, and RIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK (the dad-burn lawyers made us say that). Learn to whine about the pace being too fast or slow, the route being too steep or too flat, and the course being too long or too short, and you will BEABubba too.