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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Saturday 10/3 – Cycle Sequatchie
The official Bubba ride for this week is Cycle Sequatchie. There are several road and mixed-surface route options. The deadline to register is Monday, 9/28. There will be no on-site registration.
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 2026
Here are the Elite rides for Saturdays in October. Watch this site early on the Saturday of the ride for weather related cancelations and updates.
October 3 – The Cycle Sequatchie fall ride. There are 50 and 80 mile road options and 40 and 64 mile gravel options.
See: https://www.cyclesequatchie.com/
October 10 – Some call it the “drain-pipe cannon” ride which you’ll see at the ride’s peak elevation. Start at 9 am from the paved parking lot across from the Falling Water Baptist Church for a loop north. Store stop at the Dollar General in Sale Creek at mile 33. Those wanting more can climb Hotwater Road on the way home.
50 miles and 2,600 feet of climbing.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50119282
October 17 – While it seems like this favorite surfaces every few weeks, we haven’t done the Chattooga Valley ride to Captain Wood road since May. Start at 9 am from the old Food City in St. Elmo. Store stop at mile 40. Map shows return via Burnt Mill — but we’ll stay on Old Chattanooga Valley to avoid the dogs.
53 miles and 2,700 feel of climbing.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/49895195
October 24 – It’s time for the Fall ride down the Tennessee River Gorge on Mullins Cove Road. Start at 9 am from the grass parking lot across from River Drifters on Suck Creek Road. We used to call this a gravel ride, but with all the road improvements it’s now more of a road bike ride — with a few rough spots. The map shows the turn at “goat’s bridge”. However, the last few time’s we’ve done it, the large majority of riders have gone the extra 3 miles to turn around at TN 27. Also, the option to return by riding up Sequatchie Valley and over Suck Creek Mountain. There are no stores in this neck of the woods.
40 miles and 2,330 feet of climbing. (Seems short, but your body will tell you otherwise.)
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50284294
October 31 – Another October tradition is the Halloween season “Freddy” ride. Elites will start from Powell’s Cross Roads at 9 am. to ride to Dunlap and climb Fredonia mountain. Park in front of the Town Hall that’s right at the cross-roads. Store stop in Palmer at mile 39.
56 miles with 3,800 feet of climbing.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/52879798
November 7 – Start in St. Elmo to climb Sand Mountain via Murphy Hollow. Return Creek Road. 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.