Gravel Ride Adventure - Nature has a way of adding challenges to a ride

[@kevinwilleford7876]

Clint I love the ride videos! The more adventuresome the better! Great job.

[@lucygardens]

Wow! That weather was more adventurous than I expected. Can I taste your bread?

[@garrickdtaylor]

I'm surprised how rural this ride was for Florida. Just finished my first 100 km gravel ride yesterday. I mainly ride the mountain bike but the gravel bike is a fun change of pace sometimes.

[@ToddNZMTB]

100k wicked 👌🏻

[@williammiller735]

North Florida has a lot of beautiful rural riding. I’m in Tallahassee, very similar to where Clint rides.

[@ClintGibbs]

This is North Central Florida… almost another planet from south Florida , which is what people think when they hear “Florida”. Congrats on your first 100k! What I appreciate about gravel riding covering a lot a lot more.

[@jsa6261]

Clint...please more videos like these. These are amazing. Loving this see different terrain, and as some mentioned below, I NEVER expected that Florida would have gravel options like this! I have been to Florida several times (Orlando, Miami, and St. Petes) and only witnessed pavement, highways and interstates. LOVING this flat, rural looking options for gravel rides and actually makes me want to go there with my gravel bike! More like this please...

[@ClintGibbs]

Great gravel riding here for sure. The cities you named don’t showcase what Florida is really like.

[@jsa6261]

@@ClintGibbs I clearly need to get to "north central" Florida and find some of this gravel goodness!

[@corvettec5dave]

Oklahoma is in the House Happy New Year!

[@JitinMisra]

I love these riding vlogs, way more than your mountain bike vlogs, really nice to see different areas through the bike

[@ClintGibbs]

Thanks. I’ve got a cool one coming out on January 11. Shot it with the Insta360 for a different perspective. Working on it now and it’s turning out nicely.

[@k2dave1969]

Some of those roads looked very familiar......great video....I have to get my gopro fired up for more videos

[@richtoepper7102]

Pat lencioni has written a lot of books. Good author. I figured you had to hit water eventually!

[@jsa6261]

Curious - there was one dog barking (behind a fence) on this video. It got me wondering - on gravel rides like this (in rural looking regions), how many encounters do you have with dogs not behind a fence?? Would love to see a video on this (or how you deal with dogs on gravel rides...)

[@ClintGibbs]

Happens about once a month. Pepper spray is effective but only had to use it one time.

[@saddleweary2777]

I tried camping with a hammock and I couldn't sleep, it may be something I got to get use to but it was a rough night

[@ClintGibbs]

I don’t sleep well in a gathered-end hammock, but I slept like a baby in the Warbonnet Ridge Runner which is a bridge hammock. Check them out. Also the Eno skylight is a great option.

[@saddleweary2777]

@@ClintGibbs yea I was thinking that might be the problem, I'll check that one out. Thanks Clint and y'all have a great New Year's

[@oneschance]

What on bike camera are you using?

[@ClintGibbs]

GoPro Hero 12

[@icthus13]

Do you use a particular route planning tool, or is it just long experience and local knowledge?

[@ClintGibbs]

Actually both. When I plan routes I usually plan them in Garmin Connect and sometimes Ride with GPS. I have a video on how to wirelessly get routes from Ride with GPS over to Garmin

[@frankstrobel4350]

Curious…..do you see gravel roads disappearing ? I would think over time..gravel roads would get paved over by the town . And little by little gravel turns to asphalt. 😕

[@ClintGibbs]

I’ve seen that happen with a few roads around here for sure. But the further out you get the less it happens. We have hundreds of miles of gravel roads in our county so it would take a long time to pave them.

[@derekmattice3077]

There’s a wind advisory so I’m wearing a helmet with a visor…

[@ClintGibbs]

Never had an issue with visors and wind

[@derekmattice3077]

@@ClintGibbs if you say so…

[@ClintGibbs]

@@derekmattice3077 when I pedal at 50mph on the flats the wind is fine on the visor…I’m kidding 😉