Chattanooga, TN
It’s time for the BeezleBub Bluegrass Bubba Bash, and BeezleBub has selected the Little River Canyon route which is a Bubba favorite. Roll @ 9:00 from the Cove. 70 miles, 5000 feet. You can cut off the climb up Daughtery by starting at John Carroll’s on top. Here’s the map: ridewithgps.com/routes/42663216
BeezleBub will check the weather Sat morning and send out an email if there is a change in takeoff time.
Early Birds get out of sequence this week and do the Hillz again. (15 mph wind with 35 mph gusts out of the north tomorrow, and the Hillz will help us hide!) Roll from Whole Foods at 4:00.
“Regular” Tuesday ride rolls at 5:30 as always. See Other Rides below,
Option 1 – chase TB at 8:30
Option 2 – Roll from St. Elmo Food City at 8:45 in order to create some natural separation with TB. Will take the TB route south but will cut it short just past Hwy 193 when we’ll take a left on Akins Rd. off of Cove Rd. Will return the same way as TB by taking a left on Kensington Rd off of Hwy 193. 54 miles and 3,200 ft.
Option 3 – Battlefield at 9am with Larry English and the No Knuckleheads. +/- 3 hours
Some folks are out of town this Saturday and lots of others are tapering for Sunday’s Cornbread Festival. (No, no, not tapering for the ride – Bubbas are tapering for what really matters: the cornbread eating contest!) Bubbas able to ride Saturday will roll at 8:30 from the St Elmo Food City aka Steady’s Campground for a trip south on this BeezleBub/Flymanator-led ride. Some familiar roads and some not so familiar, so look at/download the map especially you $00 since you’d get lost in the Food City parking lot! A metric and 3600 feet. Lots of ways to short it for those with less time or who want to stretch their legs but not go too deep so as to be worn out for cornbread eating Sunday.
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
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.