Sunrise To Sunset | Could You Ride 200 Miles In One Day?

As you embark on this journey, we want to inspire you to try something similar on your own doorstep, and along the way, I'll share some tips on how you can do just that. Yes, we will take you on this epic. route so you can experience the ups and downs and it's an amazing route we have there. It's going to be hard to get home, the final push now in the wet and in the dark. It's beautiful that the view is not all this ass. Good morning at six. The sun from the clock is just rising a little cloudy in the beautiful real crescent and the bathroom where our trip is about to begin still waiting for ollie um saying he will be here soon early, a new bathroom starts here we go looking good doing it ollie arrived found That he found his cape that I made, I'm worried that he might need it today, but Connor, are you ready man, ready as I'll ever be?

It's a big day, a huge day, I don't think I really realized how big it was. It was going to be until we met this morning I thought we were going to the Isle of Wight and back in a day and what scares me is that you've done big tours and you say this is a big day and you're nervous about this I think that makes me makes me feel like I want to miss that ferry look on the way let's do it right so we leave the bathroom we're on the way about 10 kilometers in flight we feel good a few

miles

under the belt we already put ourselves up, which is also an aspect of this trip, get out so early, the road is so smooth, I love it, great, I'm trying to eat as many bananas as I can to empty my pockets because I'm driving like another Michelin man here, I feel.

Like we're on our own little relaxing getaway, it feels good to just leave our doors, the open road ahead with your epic adventure in the spirit of the cards, we're moving forward, yes, I'm giving Ollie the authentic getaway experience, We just yelled "pause, horse." squirrel that's beautiful that the view doesn't have all these butts at 70k and we've just arrived at the beautiful salisbury cathedral behind us, which Connor is particularly excited about because well, his favorite book is based on it. I am obsessed with this book because my better half Stacy will attest that I love cathedrals and this is a perfect display of winged buttresses, yes, the architecture in it, I mean generations of workers who went into this, the pillars of the earth, yes, pillars of the earth, but we have been making good progress.

I've been flying to get here, I actually arrived earlier than I expected, enough time to grab a quick coffee in town. Basically, we've been on the new Vita aeroframe, the zx1 evo, which has been pretty fast. Actually, I mean, you were so quick. Well you've been flying, there's still a long way to go Connor, but thanks, I've been sitting at Ollie's, eating bananas and croissants, having a great time, so I hope this continues well for a trip like this. I am happy to have done it. I got an aero bike and we were reliably informed that the new bike is 18 more aerodynamic than the old one.

They spent a lot of time perfecting it in the Silverstone wind tunnel, which is music to my ears. Its fully integrated cables are very careful. and a neat integrated seatpost clamp for monocoque carbon frame, so it's nice and stiff and light and by the way, if you're wondering, I'm riding a uh large and Connor is riding a uh double xl, double xl , that excites me. There's a little story behind this, it goes back to my race day, so I'll share it with you later, but right now we need to move on because, well, we have to get to the ferry we have.

I have to make that ferry, let's check in, the trip is over if we don't make that ferry, so we have to do it. I mean, this is a sailor thing, um, nautical, is that nautical, wait for me, ollie, I've already eaten two. bananas, a loaf and I almost lost my brioches, which would have been a disaster. I just made me turn around and go back for them because I wasn't. I

could

n't go without my brioches. We arrived at the New Forest national park in the south. of wild horses from England roaming here and it is covered in forest, as the name suggests.

I love wild horses. We are approaching the ferry. I am optimistic. We'll get the crossing earlier, which would really do us a favor to keep us going. as planned, how are you doing? Rolly, yeah I'm good advice, you're going on a 200 mile trip, find a friend like Connor to do it with because it's like sitting behind a shed on wheels, I basically don't even have to do it. Pedaling is cool, I literally think that's the only reason I got a contract as a professional racing cyclist just so people

could

sit behind me for 50 kilometers and your free beer at the bar, by now you're probably asking a bit more about the pretty nice bikes we

ride

well, as I mentioned the vitus lent is a zx1 aero bike, although we have different colors and different specs.

Mine is this quite attractive red and really shines in the sun, and I especially like that. Matches the GCN kit. Connors is black, but he is not just any black, he is an almost i

ride

scent black and sometimes looks gray and green, depending on how the light catches him either way. Mine is actually the lower end of the two with a full set of sram force access groupset, while Connors has sram red, both bikes feature the same Vision metron aero cockpit and deep reynolds ar 58 wheels, big aero gains and , if you haven't ridden one before, an aero frame like this one equipped with wheels that is noticeably faster and On a day as long as this, when you add the energy saving benefit of an aero bike, the option is what always I would choose.

The beauty of doing a tour like this is that anyone can do it, it's so accessible, but there are things you have to do. do it right and two of the most important things are nutrition and pace and very often people get carried away, they push themselves too hard in the beginning and they burn all their carbs, all their carb reserves and then you burn them at a faster rate than The You can replenish them by eating during the ride and then going to bed, so the way to avoid that is to ride well within yourself, cyclist, you know, zone two or what is a really comfortable base, it should seem too easy at first and then .

Whatever you have left at the end, empty the tank if you want, but that way you should avoid lying down and you should also continue eating carbohydrates all the time, you know that the body can absorb between 60 and 80 grams. an hour so keep crushing the carbs it's about 5km to the ferry and we're cutting it right like 5km is about 8 minutes at the speed we're going but we need to keep that speed up because I mean. the ferries in about 30 minutes don't give us much room and you have to get there early so we are desperately trying to catch the ferry to get there I think we're almost there now we have to stop at a train crossing, we're going by train I guess the benefits if we miss this ferry, although we have another lunch hour, oh, we're outside, the doors are open, we're on a boat, on a boat, we're and it's quite a nice time for I also kind of pause and reflect on what this ride is about though yeah, crossing the Solent to the Isle of Wight, I mean 200

miles

is a great benchmark to follow if you're a cyclist and I think that's the beauty of any cyclist.

They can do this from your doorstep as if we were having a big adventure and get home the same day. Yes, people might wonder why we have chosen this particular route, but that is because we can go by boat to the Isle of Wight. I feel so gangster right now, but the Isle of Wight is a beautiful place famous also for Viking raids and has played quite an important role in British history, yes, and this or the solent we are crossing now is a famous and treacherous water passage and is where Sir Francis Drake handed it over to the Spanish navy.

It's also one of the last places Jimi Hendrix played. They are on the real island. In fact, I probably ended up soloing at some point, I imagine. Six hundred thousand people participated in that concert. In fact, I was at Jimi Hendrix's grave in Washington. A great story. We arrive at the Isle of Wight and are beginning our return to the island, which we have to complete in four hours. One hundred kilometres, just over one hundred kilometres, was completed in four hours for our next ferry crossing back to the mainland and for those of you not familiar with the geography of the Isle of Wight, it's basically for the Kingdom United what is Hawaii. to the mainland of the United States, it is British Hawaii, yes definitely, as you can probably see, there is a huge amount of flora and fauna, although the wildlife and geography are truly amazing, and this return is going to be spectacular, the roads are beautiful, we are flying on this service now.

Yeah, and we can't afford to take it too easy because we'll be stranded here otherwise, right? If you like dinosaurs, which I know you do, there are a lot of fossils around here and I'm told I read it. on the internet a big milestone Connor 100 miles we just got 100 miles ah that's the century it's good for morale we're getting there yeah we have to do it all again for those of you cricket fans , then Graham Gooch at this point would do it. He said you have to go ahead and make him a dad, so that's what we're going to do.

The double century, turning him into dad, dad. I said before that it was on a double XL frame, yeah I should probably share why that is. The case of all of you when I was racing with your continental team Ampost in Belgium, my first type of professional contract. I guess I was actually riding a vitus so it was a team frame and there wasn't a bike big enough so these guys went they designed their own frame they called it double xl and that's where this bike comes from so Visas leads the path for older cyclists, yes, exactly, so I've gone back to my roots a little bit here.

Riding a frame that I compete in world championships in an incredible way and now here I am with you around the Isle of Wight, we are faced with that now we have to average over 35 km per hour in the next 20 kilometers, but we are not going to take the ferry, so we keep going because our average speed has decreased on the island. These roads are much hillier and grippier than we thought. Come on, maybe we can go all the way around the island. Make this ferry. Back home. It turned on, give it your all, you feel it, it's the quads, yes you feel it, oh come on, come on guys, it's just a little while to go, they'll still be riding in the front for me, yeah, it's okay, we're out of the ferry.

We're back on the mainland and now we're 120k away from getting home, buddy, yeah, but it feels good that we don't have any more deadlines. Now I can enjoy this last section and get home and whatever in any way. Wait, let's just smash it, let's hit it, come on, let's do it, we have an update for you, we're back in the new forest, retracing our steps home, although this time we have 65 miles left to go instead of the other way around, it Which was fair. There's still a lot to do at this point in the trip, spirits are still high, although we're both starting to get a little hungry and starting to fantasize about what we're going to eat when we get home and I think based on some quick calculations here.

It's half past six now there's about an hour and a half of sunlight left and well 65 miles won't be covered in an hour and a half so it's going to be a dark end buddy I'd prepare for that dawn until there's dust and a little . A little bit more we rumbled on, oh so we got to Salisbury and the heavens literally opened up with about 60 days to go, 67km to go, I almost crashed, I'm not going to lie, Laurie cut us off, unfortunately both my feet came off. the pedals, literally water. skiing down the road I have no idea how I held it up the rain really worked in my favor but we need to find some food because this is where it all counts now we're going to get over the road and we're hungry has the right to go so we said in the intro we document the ups and downs apparently this is a low lift in Salisbury desperately trying to find some food and the lift, I mean why are we going to live because we're in it?

We got lost, the only way not to get lost was to go through a multi-storey car park, there we were outside and it was dry so we thought, why not? Anyway, we're outside now in the rain, ollie, get some food, oh, try it. and stay upright, sorry we didn't find any food in Salisbury, we had to break away from the pea stainless steel and in my near accident episode I was supposed to ruin it because I ran out of food, yeah, we left it a bit too. It took me a long time to stop, so I was in a big co-op store, raided the store and found a nice bit of yogurt.

Ollie burned about six and a half thousand kilojoules, yeah, which is aboutsix thousand five hundred calories, so that's pretty big so far. David still 60k to go, it's um, what time is it that around seven, a little after seven, had a little bit more sun and then, yeah, coming in at dusk, now completely drenched in rain, going through the souls, we we hit completely and start feeding it? a little bit, oh we're almost there, we're almost there that last 200 mile push home, we've got it and we're going to go, yeah we've got it, it'll feel good when we get there right now, they're just going to sit at a stop bus and drink yogurt, any vegan wrap, it's already past

sunset

time, we'll make our last stop for lunch, we were thinking we were going to run home toward the sun and maybe get it back in time to be still.

There will be a little light, but that is not the case. There's still 50km to go, so we're definitely making the last of the darkness. Fortunately, the rain has cleared. The skies are in their last shade of blue, but yes, the last push is now wet and the. dark but home, so we made it, we're moving back towards the actual crescent where we started, but Now it's really dark, um, 12 and a half hours later, yeah, it's about 10:40 at night and I'm really tired, I'm broken, I'm not on this planet, oh, but it was an amazing ride and the bikes were perfect, cheers from dawn to dusk and then some, and you were completely destroying them on the way up, I was glued to your wheel, we didn't talk the last 40 miles, no we didn't know, head down, just wanted to get home at Well I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope we inspired you to do your own 200 miles or even just 100 miles.

It would be a great option if you haven't done it before from your own doorstep. and have an adventure anyone can do it wherever it is yes, go out enjoy the trip, I'm going to bed now yes, let's go and enjoy the bed no in no in the same bed no, that would be your bed Over there the mine is over there yes, okay, night, look in the next video.