Chattanooga, TN
It was a crazy idea. This ride has been moved to Sunday at 1pm.
This is probably crazy so blame it on Missile. Elites will roll from St. Elmo Food City at noon for a little gravel action on the Guild Trail. We’ll roll south on Virginia Ave. before heading over to the Guild. Plan on at most 2 hours and be flexible. Depending on how our toes feel will determine the course of action, i.e. will be go out Upper Truck or not. If we do the whole thing it’s 20 miles.
Elites will roll from Mike’s Hole in the Wall with TB at 1pm, and ride the Riverview Hill route. Shorter course but lots of stingers and if you get motivated you can add a Poop Loop or two to it or do the loop twice.
Option 1: The Fly will be leading a ride Friday 12/24 rolling from Ridgeland High School at 9:30. Plan on about 50 miles that will head down towards the Cove. Merry Christmas to all. Combined ride so don’t be naughty, be nice.
Option 2: For the elves out there who think short is beautiful, roll at 9:30 from the little white Methodist church on Signal (across from Xtreme sports) at 9:30. Corral, Marshall Creek Gorge, Forest Park climb, and then we’ll decide whether to drop down W and climb the front or find other stuff to climb such as Shoal Creek. Never too far from the cars so jump off anytime. Count on 2.5-3 hours and say 2500-3000 feet.
Merry Christmas to Bubbas everywhere!
Rain screws us up again. Ride at your own risk.
Elites will roll with TB at 9AM from Starbucks at Rock City. Your choice of routes. Hang with TB or take a shorter option that turns left off of Scenic Hwy at Ascalon for 30 mile round trip. Of course weather will dictate. Dark Sky keeps flipping back and forth so watch the website for Saturday morning update.
Elites will roll with TB from Mike’s Hole in the Wall at 9:30, but that’s where the similarity ends. We’ll head north through the tunnel and basically do the Red Bank Lunch ride up Lullwater, McCahill to Browntown where we’ll pickup the Tuesday night route to Soddy. Loop through the ball fields and back. Hotwater climb is optional. 50 miles and relatively flat.
Lunch at Mike’s post ride for those that want to hang out.
Due to cold temps Elites will meet Man in Black at the Battlefield for a shorter option. rolling at 10am after things warm up.
For those that want to scoot over to Mountain Cove for Sweetie’s bluegrass festival (http://foreverbluegrass.com/schedule/), Bub will set us up with wrist bands to get in. Plenty of good food for purchase but you might want to bring your favorite beverage.
After a couple of lost years, the fall colors are back and there’s no prettier ride than from Mountain Cove Farm through Little River Canyon then back via DeSoto State Park (with a Roadside Viewing of JUNKASAURUS REX!) It’s gonna be chilly and to allow extra driving time, let’s roll from the Manor House just past the Cove Store @ 9am. 994 Dougherty Gap Rd. Chickamauga, GA 30707. Wristbands to getcha in Sweetie’s Bluegrass Festival will be given out by BeelezeBub (along with a few of his Beers…. begrudgingly). It’s worth the price of admission!
Roll from Falling Water at 2pm for basically the Tuesday night ride. Hotwater climb is optional
Weathermen still moving things around for Sat morning but regardless of which you believe it’s gonna be cold which means a late start and route flexibility even if it’s a yawner. Roll from Mike’s Hole in the Wall (Chilhowee Street lot) @ 9:30. Familiar route north with a few twists and a climb up Mountain Road where decisions must be made. For those with less time head down Montlake for 40+ miles and back around noon. Others descend Hotwater and wind back for 54 miles and 3200 feet. (Check the map because we will not go all the way to the store since the less time on top the better – we’ll fill up at the store in Soddy where Sam I Am went “bowling for bikes” a few years ago.) Easy to get this one over a metric by either climbing the front of Signal as we come back through (descending W) or doing a loop at the Bend before or after.
Meet on the Walnut Street Bridge at 8:30 (park wherever) to watch the start of those crazies paddling 31 miles for the ChattaJack SUP race. After that we’ll take the Holiday Route (thru to hood to Missionary Ridge, Hogan, McFarland, etc.) to the Battlefield and then add some of Fly’s roads. 52 miles and just under 3,000 ft of climbing.