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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Team Bubba
TB Sat. 6/7
Rain is back in the forecast, but it looks like it may hold off until later in the afternoon. For now, plan to roll at 8:30 for a Ringold to Cleavland metric. Post-ride lunch at Farm to Fork.
When: 8:30 am
Where: Joseph T. McConnell Kids Park (https://maps.app.goo.gl/
Stats: 61.8 miles and 2,952 ft
Store stop at mile 40.4
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
June 2025
It’s summer cycling season! Here are the Elite rides planned for Saturdays in June. Watch this site early on the Saturday of the ride for weather related updates.
June 7 – Start at 8:30 am from the Food City in St. Elmo to take on Sand Mountain via Murphy Hollow. This route includes a second attempt to ride the rollers of McKaig Road into Trenton. Store stop in the heart of Trenton at the Mapco at mile 27.
47 miles and 2,800 feet. Climb Sand Mountain.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/51059172
June 14 – Here’s a route much like the one we did back in March, but in the opposite direction so we can assess the difficultly of the hill on Old Graysville Road up to the ‘drainpipe cannon’ from the US-27 side. Start at 9 am from the parking lot across from the Falling Water Baptist Church. Store stop at the Country Mart at mile 31.
50.5 miles and 2,560 feet. No mountain climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/51058867
June 21 – Sure it’s a bit of a longer drive, but that’s where you find some of Tennessee’s best rural nap-of-the-earth roads with only light farm traffic. Start at 9 am (ET) from the old Chapel Hill Methodist Church near US 127 for a ride to Pikeville. Store stop at the Farmer’s Co-Op at mile 23 for a Coke and a conversation about the weather.
54.5 miles and 2,830 feet. No mountain climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/51058690
June 28 – Start at 8:30 am from the Food City in St. Elmo to ride the length of Chattanooga Valley to Mountain Cove Farms. Water stop at mile 30 at the “Farm Store” with a real store stop at mile 50.
63 miles and 3,020 feet. No mountain climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50191382
Do you have a favorite ride that you wish someone would post? Let a ride leader know about it in June, and we’ll get it on the list for July (which already has one Saturday reserved for a gravel ride starting at Camp Ocoee) or August.
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.