Category: Bubba Elite

Bubba Elite Rides

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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

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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.
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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. 

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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

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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
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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)

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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.

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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.   

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Sat. 9/24

Roll with TB from Mike;s at 8:30 am. We’ll chase all the way to Soddy Ball Fields and continue north but take a right at Bakewell and return home. Shortens route by 10 miles. Slightly different route on the return (no Foot Washing Church) so take a look at the map.
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Sat. 8/20

Elites will roll with TB at 8am from St. Elmo Food City but once over the toe will split and run their route in reverse. Creek Rd down to hang gliding airport and over the ridge at New England to Slygo, Murphy Hollow and back via the stair steps. If you really want you can climb Raccoon when you pass by, but that’s not how it’s mapped. 46 miles and 2,800 feet.