How To Do Your First 100 Mile Off-Road Ride | Summer Solstice Challenge

[@scchua4203]

It's great to see Anna out and about instead of stuck behind the desk! More Anna on epics please? Anna and Manon on a gravel ride!

[@Ziggyvu]

Great thumbnail

[@gmbn]

Thanks!

[@valrodrigues4203]

Got to love those bumpy rides

[@simonhunt7798]

Great video thank you Anna nice to see an MTB being used for what a lot of people would consider mountain biking as opposed to hucking gap jumps. Really nice thank you

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Yes, this feels like mountain biking to me. :)

[@dcv9460]

More of those, please 😎💯👍 More of Anna 💯

[@Paganiproductions84]

Finally a proper mountainbike on this channel 160 km+is a very big ride

[@JeffMTBinVA]

That's awesome Anna, thanks. You guys are so lucky to have so many places to ride and it seems there is a lot of community and national bike support.

[@shanemiller9851]

That was a great event, run by MTB EPICS, amazing riding around the midlands.

[@Pesmog]

Living a long way from any real gradient, hills or rocks, this is pretty much how I do all of my riding on byways, bridleways, towpaths, fire roads and quiet lanes. I might do a couple of 50 milers a year but most of my riding like this is in the 20-40 mile range. A Gravel, XC or Downcountry bike is perfect for this kind of riding. 👍 Thanks for recognising that we don't all do gravity rides Anna. 👍

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

yep! I think you're in the majority camp, don't worry. 😇

[@sherab2078]

Love the video! More in my vibe than the usual gravity-oriented stuff on the channel. I definitely feel inspired. However, for me, a challenge would be to pass the barrier of 70 km on the tarmac with my gravel bike. A 100 miles (so about 160 km) off-road feels rather abstractive at the moment.

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Absolutely! Go for it! I did a few 50km - 70km rides before this so that I knew I could do it. 😊

[@juliagriffiths]

Yeah. Nice to see u out of the studio and having an adventure rather the boys having all the fun. Love to get the gpx to see the route.

[@jamesdiston4352]

The day I rode 100 miles on my hard tail was the day I resolved to buy a full suss. Kudos to you both for completing that epic ride. How about the South Downs Way for your next century ride?

[@danieltaylor4882]

Live in the area and knew nothing about this ride! So thank you for showing it off, and great video. Well done on the ride too.

[@stuarthelmn3699]

It's great to have an MTB vid going in to the sort of detail I would normally go to gcn for. More please!

[@trapptours6679]

100 miles, you are right, it's no joke, we'll done 👍

[@gmbn]

Thanks for watching! Anna did great 🤘

[@trapptours6679]

@gmbn Anna sure did great, I went for a 20km bike ride the other day with 6 hills, and during the ride, I thought how tough her would have been for me 😢

[@freeridemtbauz]

Nice ride Anna, love watching what you are upto, you make it interesting 👍

[@goose1647]

Huge thanks to Anna. I fell unwell that morning and was looking to bail 20 miles in, bit of a chat soon took my mind off it. Last 60 miles were pretty grim though, hated it 😂

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

I think the last 40 miles were the toughest! lol

[@jonm7272]

Nice video Anna, and on an acoustic bike too, great effort and an inspiration for those of us who still like to do epics under our own steam. More of these please.

[@jonm7272]

@@bri.b.b.9519 luddite? You know this is GMBN not EMBN right? Also, you're assuming I don't also have an ebike (which I do, and love) but still very often enjoy the challenge of epic mtb rides 'under my own steam'. Maybe try reading people's comments without the lens of your own prejudice. I wasn't making a comment about 'green credentials', it was about personal achievement. By your argument, why are we pedalling at all when we could all be riding motocross bikes?

[@ChristianPareATLAS]

30 years ago I was doing long rides like that at 14 years old. I learned to carry my tools. I did ran out of patch and had to call my dad to come pick me up. 25 minutes car drive my dad was really wondering how I went so far 😂 truth is we were going for 6 to 9 hours rides

[@darrenmilo9565]

Sort of just what I needed. I’ve not ridden since before lockdown and haven’t found the motivation to get any of my 3 bikes out for the trail or the gravel path. I’m also totally out of shape so not going to try 100miler any time soon but if I can just get out for a day…who knows!

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

we all have to start somewhere. The hardest part is starting, but it's worth it!

[@AbeTheApe126]

Cool seeing newbold comyn trail centre make an appearance on this video 😎

[@evanloudenback3700]

Motivation - watching Anna ride 100+ miles off road! lol Great video and congrats! You've inspired me to try longer rides, I think not having food/energy supplements is capping my rides at around 1:30 to 2 hours at the moment. I'm usually out of energy after that, much appreciated!

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Yes, it sounds like it. If you’re running out of steam it’s probably just food. Try eating some bananas and a sandwich next time if you don’t like energy product

[@winklertribe5268]

Great video Anna!! Thanks for the tips!

[@stuartbarber7784]

I like this type of content. Thanks

[@sibusisobuthelezi2427]

Nice seeing my girl on a big ride. 💪

[@ErasmoValladares]

Doing my first ride with elevation at the end of July. Thanks for the tips and fueling strategy.

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Good luck!! Eat well!!

[@garyalexander3281]

Haven't done 100 miles yet but great to see how you prep for and work out how much food and fluid you need, compared to this I always overpack but better too much than too little 😂Thanks for sharin Anna, looked like a great cycling adventure! 😁

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

thank you!! yes, better to be full than hungry ;)

[@g.fortin3228]

great job Anna and nice tips.. appreciated.. especially the often overlooked fueling ones.

[@tonygroden4149]

It's great to see a longer ride on an mtb.

[@blakekennard7700]

Anna you’re always on point… appreciate you

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Aww thanks 😊

[@grantnewby3756]

Awesome effort Anna and very inspiring.

[@janetgonzales6779]

Thanks! Love this! Definitely want to do this challenge next solstice!

[@0T13]

love this kind of content! more please

[@chriswaters1110]

Great ride,and video,always a great watch.👍🏼💪

[@AgSmithsilversmith]

25 miles off road feels like a big ride to me so can't really imagine doing 100! Looks like Awsome scenery though

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

We all have to start somewhere! You’ll be surprised what you can do. Find a friend who wants a challenge and try to do a 40mile loop one day. Go easy and eat lots!

[@chriscrane4760]

I’m a fairly new rider and have been kicking around the idea of doing a century ride but didn’t know how to do it properly. Thanks for the great video and inspiration!

[@jpalcouffe7515]

This was great - we need more videos like this!

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Thank you! i'm game. 🤪

[@petinka721]

Great job Anna and for all your tip for do long rides!

[@Zuza_Naruszewicz]

Perfect timing - i’m about to do my first 100mile this sunday (combined with an overnighter in a tent). Let’s see how it’ll go, thanks for tips on fueling and „how 60grams of carbs look like”, helpful! Thx

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Yay! Glad I could help! Good luck with it 🎉

[@ivorhamilton5304]

Great wee video Anna. Plenty more of these pls

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Sounds good to me! 😅

[@snat6299]

Awesome we need more

[@hereticyogiexpectationsups4037]

What a beautiful-looking route.

[@Jorge-Fernandez-Lopez]

Beautiful landscapes and bicycle. Thank you. Big like.

[@bittiapina]

Fantastic video! Love seeing Anna content and the info was very useful. I've only done a century ride on my road bike, haven't tried it on my MTB or gravel, should actually do one this summer.

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Thanks! Yes, do it! Don’t make the course too rough or technical for your first go. You’ll smash it 💪

[@batmangoddam5999]

We saw you on the ride, telling Nick to drink his water, he didn’t like been mothered lol. Great ride, great day

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Hahaha he loved it really 😅

[@user-to2gh7sg3l]

She gives great advice and is very comprehensive. Although I'm not familiar with carb powder but I think a few snacks and a sugar free electrolyte mix in your water will keep you going similarly. Gatorade mix works well but I find it's too much sugar for the amount of fluid I usually drink on a ride.

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Gatorade is one of the few drinks you can buy in a garage or cornr shop that actually has electrolytes in it! Carb powder is just food in powder form. It works for me, but not everyone will get on with it.

[@KevinT3141]

I use Mio Sport in one of my bottles, super easy to do 4 squirts then just fill with water. I'd hate to deal with powders. Mio probably does nothing on the carbs front, but it's got electrolytes, and it's yummy.

[@ollien3359]

A great video - 100 miles is about 160km for all the Aussies out there :) ) I live about ~40 minutes drive from my closest MTB park (Lysterfield, where the 2006 Commonwealth games MTB was held). Recently I decided rather than packing my car up with my MTB gear, why don't I just ride there? - so for the past few visits I have been riding the ~65km round trip for the ~16km MTB park loop on my gravel bike. All in all, it's about 75-85km (depending on the route and which tracks I ride at the MTB park), and only about 600m of elevation (Melbourne and surrounds aren't very hilly) - but it is so much more satisfying. This way you get to enjoy the journey AND the destination (and a sneaky KFC zinger burger on the way home). I love taking longer rides, enjoying the bicycle infrastructure around my state with bike paths, rail trails and the places they can take you.

[@whichypoohs]

YES Loved this. Thank you.

[@SonnyDarvishzadeh]

My kind of ride, no matter bike type.

[@stanley3647]

Nice effort: 100miles offroad is like 150 on tarmac ;) My typical ride is 40miles on gravel/offroad at XC bike with 300-400m climbs. Nice to explore some regions on 2 wheels!

[@brianbass4971]

My hardtail is also my favorite long distance gravel bike. Well done Anna!

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Flat-bar gravel bike for the win! 💪😂

[@ridelikekrum7707]

Great info, and yes I'm inspired! Soon as I buy a XC bike I'm looking to do some long rides. Thanks for the tips ;)

[@MrArlew1]

I try to do a century once a year here in the states ( Chicago to Milwaukee), I usually do it under the guise of a charity as my cover for doing it but it's really just because I can lol. Ppl accept it better and I get to raise money for a good cause 😁

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

I find that a set goal or date or event is more likely to make me do these things!

[@Layeredworld]

So inspiring! ❤❤

[@GrahamFootBicycleLover]

Congrates Anna, one for the komoot library.

[@lucasblanchard47]

This seems like an awesome event! Much love from Texas!

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Thank you! Texas sounds like a cool place to ride (although maybe hot?! 😅)

[@lucasblanchard47]

@@AnnaOnTheBike haha yes and YES!

[@martinsero685]

Bravo bravissimo. More of this. Superduber!

[@petervonl]

Great! Do it again!

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

hahaha. ok. lol

[@davidanthony3781]

Thank you-great ride

[@gmbn]

It was a stunning ride!

[@michaelhayward7572]

Rick's got the best bike on this channel in ages....

[@steveb8269]

Brilliant, been wanting to do something like this for the last 5 years, haven't managed to do it yet though 😂

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Join an event! It gives you a deadline and also some people to join along the way

[@Inmate533]

This event alone is enough to make me want to live in Europe.

[@FluffyLea]

Watched this, opened up my route planner, grabbed my gear, and went out for a ride. 🚴

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

YESSS!!! 👏🎉

[@Mrg_777]

Me and my boys have done a few big rides for charity the one for great ormond Street was a 300miler over a month i bit of more than what i could chew😂thank god they gave us a month to do it i did a 100miler up over brecon my fitness was ok but my butt was in pieces!! Great video anna👍👍👍👍👍

[@paulcollingridge8387]

Great! Can I recommend a great long ride... Around Mull and include a hop across to Iona... 120 miles, monster climbs.... We did 3 days

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Nice!!

[@mrmagoo582]

Welcome to Northampton my home town.. 😁

[@lightofjahs]

I'm Impressed peeps are able to do 100 miles in one day. Not this peep though, im absolutely done after 25-30.

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Hahaha. Yeah i used to be. I just kept increasing the miles 5-10 miles at a time, and then it just happens!

[@victoriaeldridge4967]

Can we get a video about water intake, fuel, and explaining zones of why staying in certain zones is better?

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Hmmm yes maybe that would be good

[@mslmsldk]

I was thinking the same thing. Zones? Heart rate? I don't have a Garmin, I need a Garmin!

[@KevinT3141]

A budget route is a Fitbit with your account synced to Strava (for better analysis and socials), but they don't seem built to last. It's good to track your route with something other than your phone though, so you have lots of battery for emergencies and post-ride normal life. After my last Fitbit died, I bit the bullet and spent more on a Samsung Galaxy watch (Android guy, but Apples to Apples for the rest of you, lol). It's nice to run Strava right on it, I just hope it lasts more than the year and a half I seemed to get out of my Fitbits.

[@mikelafferty5253]

Looks fun!

[@MCUPW]

Awesome!

[@Matt-i5u]

That front size😮

[@alexBoblee]

great!!!

[@LuciTulcea]

If you ride mostly in zone 1 and 2, carbs in your water bottles are more than enough as your body uses up fat stores comfortably. I never got hungry one bit in my long rides as long as I rode in zone 1 and 2. In zone 3 and 4 it's the opposite.

[@junka1975]

Nice one Anna. I think about 30km is still a good ride, not sure about 100 miles.

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

30km is still my average! This was just a one-off challenge 😊

[@sul2e]

Is that Newbold Comyn? I recognise that blue trail... not to mention Hunningham High Bridge, the Ridgeway and the Chesterton Windmill... all of my local ride spots!

[@sul2e]

Also would love a komoot link or GPX file so we can follow in your footsteps....wheelruts?

[@Foxtrottangoabc]

Well done 💪

[@333wheeler]

Putting on something like a city type tyre or file tread would of made it even easier ! Surprising how well a MTB does go on long road or easy trail outings. I'm never that much slower timewise than using my road bike on steady local rides.

[@DIY-DaddyO]

What the!? This route literally goes past my house! Twice! I need the map or gxl or whatever it's called... Edit: I was on that rusty bridge last week. I think I could use this as a target route.

[@jamesfzj2495]

@@DIY-DaddyO where is this rusty bridge? The high up view looks amazing!

[@DIY-DaddyO]

@@jamesfzj2495 sorry, looks like my directions got took of. It's on the Lias Line between Rugby and Leamington spa

[@tomassanesson902]

Awesome

[@ecopennylife]

Awesome ride (like #500) 😊

[@gmbn]

🎉

[@aston108]

Good vid, cheers. When you say spares what do you recommend other that the tube and chainlinks

[@arielescarza3288]

❤❤❤😊

[@Cycle9568]

Never done a 100 miles on a mtn bike. I’ve done a 100 on a road bike multiple times…

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

It's not so different on gravel tracks and smooth off-raod, but proper singletrack and bridalways are killers! Do it in the dry, is my advice.

[@mikoajwieczorek1505]

Hello, do I wear shorts with pads on such an expedition?

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

I never leave home without them! I know some people who will wear two if they don’t have access to thicker quality ones

[@bnzboy]

9:23 which pump is this one? So cool with the built in gauge!

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

That's the Topeak Digital Mountain 2Stage pump. It's my favourite, even though it's big, it's worth it for better air volume and control!

[@bnzboy]

@@AnnaOnTheBike thank you will check it out!

[@Shawn-in-da-Canyon]

If I did a 100 miler where I live in Southern California, it would be a minimum of 10,000 feet of climbing.

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Wow! Nice work!

[@IggasaurusRex]

What's the difference between an e-bike saddle and a regular bike saddle?

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

My Ergon saddle is designed for pedalling in and “xc possition”, which means it’s a bit more curbed and designed for riding on the nose more than the back. Ergon’s e-bike saddle has a bigger and flatter surface at the back to accommodate a more upright riding style, which suited my long-distance position better. It’s a minor tweak but it works for me

[@gordonmarshall7743]

How did you get on with the lack of alternative hand positions? This is one of the things I have problems with on flatbars.

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Yes, for bike packing I do like drop-bars for this reason, but I didn’t find it much of a problem that day. Front suspension helps relieve some tension, but I also rest the sides on my fists on the bars sometimes on smooth tarmac to simulate holding drops.

[@batmangoddam5999]

4:49 thanks for making me famous lol 😂

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

😂

[@user-to2gh7sg3l]

Dehydrated porridge and mushy peas.

[@staticfade9027]

Exact seat model? Looks like it would be great.

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

It’s the SM E-Mountain Pro women’s. They have a men’s, and they come in small or large. 👌

[@staticfade9027]

@@AnnaOnTheBike thanks so much, I may need to pick one of those up.

[@porta_patrols]

nice! Don:t forget the reward: the "afer ride fesh beer" :)

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

I had an after-ride Coke and burger 😅

[@Alexcook90]

@GMBN can you share the route please? 0:24

[@oiuqreofnqoiruegnqerg]

How can you handle being that long in the saddle? My ass is on fire after about 50 km...

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

Hahaha… a good saddle, a good pair of shorts and practice! 😅

[@camelbak]

💧🤍

[@hurriedlemon8146]

What gearing did you use?

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

I had a 32T chainring with 10-50T cassette

[@hurriedlemon8146]

@@AnnaOnTheBike Thank you for answering my Question. I like your presentation style!

[@ronaldo7martinez]

100 miles tapos walang tindahan mabilhan ng ice tubig, mahirap yan gar!

[@robertbates3737]

Anna seems like she likes a good dinner

[@AnnaOnTheBike]

I really do 😅

[@paulcollard6634]

Basically calling her fat? Yeah, real nice Robbo . . . Tosser 😊

[@robertbates3737]

@paulcollard6634 that's a bit of a leap Paul...

[@Wheelsanstuff]

@@AnnaOnTheBikeAnna is best, be respectful!

[@Benjamin-ow7po]

Thank God for hard tails and tight shirts 😂 your such a badass chick all around! I just got back into mtb after 20 years and started watching gmbn and I always enjoy seeing you on the show. Keep it up Anna! 💪👍

[@FreedomOfSport]

20psi, you sure?

[@verkantillalpesi7699]