Roll with TB at Rock City Starbucks for Wilbur’s Christmas Chimney Ride. Depart at 9:00 am but come early and stay late. As always several Elite Options. Pick your poison but stick around for good stories at the fire place.
1. full route of 48 miles https://ridewithgps.com/routes/31591376
2. omit Humping Dog Loop – https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41576685
3. left on Ascalon – https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41576652
4. left on Durham Rd. – https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41576674
Sat/Sun 12/3&4
CHECK THE TB WEBSITE POST IN THE MORNING FOR UPDATED TAKEOFF TIME. – MAY SLIDE IT TO 12:30 IF RAIN GETS OUT EARLY OR MAY HAVE TO SLIDE IT BACK IF THE RAIN STICKS AROUND.
Roll Sat with TB at 1:00 from the St Elmo Food City aka Steady’s campground. Couple of places to short the route is option 1 to bypass the first climb and stay on HWY 41, and option 2 is to bypass Murphy Hollow and stay on 299. Map is for option 1
Sunday is the penultimate chicken cross race at BeezleBubb’s (1546 Burnt Mill Rd. Flintstone GA 30725). Racin’ starts around 3:30 but heckling starts before then! Don’t forget to make a contribution to the chicken cross fund – not only does this take lots of Bub’s time but also involves lots of expense particularly when we factor in the cost of the chickens that get run over.
Bubba Thanksgiving
Assuming the weatherman is wrong, here’s what’s on the menu at Bubba’s place:
Friday roll @ 9:00 from the St Elmo Food City for the holiday route. Lots of ways to short this one for those with less time. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/36208471
Saturday roll @ 9:00 again from the St Elmo Food City for the Grinder Memorial Route. (Hard to believe it’s been 3 years since we lost our friend.) https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41413167
Sunday it’s everyone’s favorite again this week – BeezleBub Chicken Cross at 3:00. 1546 Burnt Mill Rd Flintstone GA 30725
Sat. 11/19
Option 1, chase TB from Mike’s Hole in the wall at 10:30 for the 45 mile route. Climb Mtn Rd, down Mowbry, and return.
Option 2, meet Dean Poi at the Tennessee Riverwalk Wheland Foundry Trailhead parking area (1503 Middle St. 37408) behind Crust Pizza at 10:00am for a Fat Boy pace ride south through Flintstone to Chickamauga and return. Advertised as less than 3 hours.
11/5 Blue Grass Gravel
Elite’s will roll with TB @ 9:00 from the Cove (or you can start at John Carroll’s place a little later to avoid the Daughtery climb). At the top we’ll take a left and do a gravel ride per the attached map (31 miles, 3,200 ft). Depending on how we feel at mile 17 we might cancel the section that heads north which will shorten the route by about 6 miles.
Fredonia eLITE – 2 options
Elites (and all other sane riders) will roll at 8:30 am EDT from Powell’s Crossroads for Fredonia eLITE. 55 miles. That should put us in Dunlap a little ahead of TB and back to Powell’s Crossroads in time to drive by the sufferers and offer a ride on their way back to River Drifters.
Option 2 will be 50 mile ride in Sequatchie Valley. Roll at 8:30 am EDT from Powell’s Crossroads, We’ll ride the Fredonia eLite route to Fredonia climb but then peal off and head north for a while. See map. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41317992
Sat. 10/22
Option 1 – Roll with TB from Mike’s a 9am and at the top of 136 turn right and return dropping off the mountain at Nick-a-Jack and return via the Fish Hook and swing by Bub’s house. 55 miles. To shave off another 10 miles pick up TB when they come by the St. Elmo Food City but don’t blink or you’ll miss them. map: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41265840
Option 2 – Roll from downtown YMCA at 9am for the Guild/Upper/Lower Truck gravel ride. 36 miles. map: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41131062
Sat. 10/15 – update
You asked for it, you got it. Elites will have 4 options Saturday all that play off of the TB route.
Option 1 roll at 8 from Falling Water and chase TB, but descend at Brayton Mtn. Cuts the mileage to 61 miles (map: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41192902).
Option 2 start at Soddy Ball Fields at 8:30 when TB zooms by and do the Ogden/Cranmore Cove Loop. Mileage 55 (map: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41193064).
Option 3 roll at 8:30 from Soddy Ball Fields and descend Brayton Mtn,. mileage 42 miles (map: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41192972)
Option 4 roll at 9 from downtown YMCA for the 40 mile Snapper Gravel special to Camp Jordan and back. (map: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41021069)
Sat. 10/8
Elites will have 2 options Saturday. Option 1 is to chase TB (see Boss’s post) but turn left on Captain’s Rd as you’re headed to the cove. Options 2 is to roll from downtown YMCA at 9:30 for a gravel ride on Guild, Upper Truck (to state line), back up the mountain and then down to Reflection Riding to do Lower Truck. 36 miles.
Sat. 10/1
“Official” Elite ride is the Cycle Sequatchie event. https://www.cyclesequatchie.com/
It doesn’t matter which route, just sign up and support Shannadoah. Looks like rain will not be an issue.
TAKE IT EASY ON THE DESCENTS PARTICULARLY LEE STATION SINCE THERE IS NO CENTER LINE AND FOLKS MAY BE CLIMBING WHILE WE ARE COMING DOWN.