Early Bubba Special rolls from Whole Foods at 4:00 for the Hillz. Some folks are starting earlier and will see the 4:00 starters on the ridge.
5:30 group rolls from Red Bank – see Other Rides
Sat/Sun 4/22/23
Weather is cooperating so Saturday is on.
Roll from St. Elmo Food City with TB at 9am. 2 options
Option 1 climbs Nick-a-Jack, turn left at top to 136 where we’ll descend and come back via Marble Top (includes the Fish Hook at the end) 42 miles. See Map below.
Option 2 will take a Powder and come back down the mountain and roll around N. Georgia, and find our way back to Ridgeland HS and back via Salem. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/42611040
Sunday roll from St. Elmo Food City at noon for a King led ride south. Route TBD but expect about 60 miles.
TB 4/22
Roll from the St Elmo Food City @ 9:00 (giving the roads a little more time to dry because we’ll be getting to it early). Up Nickajack (ouch). Regroup at the church, spin the 1 mile climb from there keeping the group together, and then the heads go down to 136. Humping dog loop clockwise letting the strong, smooth fellers do the work pulling us as it’s a bad idea to attack on this stretch with all the hills and turns – I promise you’ll get plenty of exercise. Back across the top and down 136 to refuel at the store at the bottom where decisions must be made. Head back the normal Marble Top/Dry Valley route for 59 miles and 4000 feet, or head down 193 on the Ironman course (for those wanting a look) to Cove Road through Chickamauga for 66 miles and 3900 feet. There will be a bit of a headwind either way but hopefully staying on the east side of Lookout will tap it back a little. Here are the maps:
TB 4/22
Roll from the St Elmo Food City @ 9:00 (giving the roads a little more time to dry because we’ll be getting to it early). Up Nickajack (ouch). Regroup at the church, spin the 1 mile climb from there keeping the group together, and then the heads go down to 136. Humping dog loop clockwise letting the strong, smooth fellers do the work pulling us as it’s a bad idea to attack on this stretch with all the hills and turns – I promise you’ll get plenty of exercise. Back across the top and down 136 to refuel at the store at the bottom where decisions must be made. Head back the normal Marble Top/Dry Valley route for 59 miles and 4000 feet, or head down 193 on the Ironman course (for those wanting a look) to Cove Road through Chickamauga for 66 miles and 3900 feet. There will be a bit of a headwind either way but hopefully staying on the east side of Lookout will tap it back a little. Here are the maps:
TB Tuesday 4/18
Early Bubba Special rolls @ 4:00 from old BiLo in Red Bank (corner of Browntown and Dayton Blvd) for the “regular” Tuesday loop up Hotwater. See map in Other Rides section.
Normal Tuesday ride leaves at 5:30 as always.
Sat. 4/15
Option 1 – Chase TB
Option 2 – roll out from the Little White Church in Sequatchie Valley at 9am EDT and cruise up to Pikeville and back. North will be on East Valley Rd. and South on the west side of hwy 127. 50 miles and map posted. The question is, will TB catch us before we get to the Henson Gap turn or does anyone really care?
Option 3 – shorter version of option 2. For those that get dropped on the way up to Pikeville, we’ll cross over at College Station Mtn Rd. Head north until we run into group returning from Pikeville. 35 – 43 miles. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/42517204
Option 4 – No Knucklehead Ride with Dean Poi – 9:00 from the Battlefield for +/- 3 hours on roads less traveled in North Georgia. Tranquilo pace. Van der Pool imitators are welcome.
TB 4/15
Roll from Red Bank Elementary at 8:30 – it’s just past the foot of the W on the right going down Mountain Creek Road. (Folks at the Aldi center aren’t big on Bubba taking up parking spots and we don’t want to wear out our welcome at the old Pizza Hut lot.) We’ll warm up with a SPIN up the W. As always we’ll stagger groups of 5 or so going up to hold down Facebook complaints, and if you want an even gentler spin up help us break up the group by heading straight up the W out of the school instead of doing the short 2-mile segment down Runyon on the map. REMEMBER TO REGROUP AT THE TOP OF THE “Ws” on East Brow (don’t go all the way to Taft), and we’ll then head down the Marshall Creek Gorge, off the back of Signal (ouch), up Henson Gap (another ouch), the 10-longest miles across Mowbry (yep, you’re getting the “ouch” idea), down Montlake and back. 60 miles, 5000 feet, but it’ll feel like much, much more.
TB Tuesday 4/11
Early Bubba Special rolls @ 4:00 from Whole Foods for the Hillz. Back to the Bend for some loops around 5:30 for anyone who wants to jump on. After-party at Whole Foods.
“Regular” Tuesday ride rolls from old BiLo in Red Bank at 5:30 as always – see Other Rides section below.
Sat. 4/8
Weather’s not looking good. I suggest riding at your own risk. TB will update ride info at 9am Saturday so keep an eye out for that. Another option is Dean Poi’ rides:
Saturday 9:00 from Food City—Tennessee Avenue in St. Elmo—to Mountain Cove. A beautiful 65 mile ride. Want to cut it short?
Gordon Lee HS, Chickamauga, GA at 9:30. This ride will join the Food City group to the Cove for 40-plus miles
Rain cancels both options.
TB 4/8
UPDATE: Well, I suspect at this point even the Easter bunny dislikes that dad-burn groundhog! NO RIDE TODAY.
Happy Easter Bubbas!