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Everyone's a bit different and it depends on stuff like pace, temperature, etc. If it's hotter it makes more sense to use carb drink rather than gels or bars. I find gels and bars during hot weather can be quite unpleasant. England is generally fine for drink, bars or gels and I tend to use all of them to some extent depending on pace.
Long training rides gels and bars, races tend more towards gels but I've changed to Torq and find their bars easier to process than the SIS ones so I'm using more bars now.
4 units of SIS sounds like too much. If talking the small bars and using 6% Go mix and two gels that would be 37 + 25 + 22 + 22 grams of CHO = 106g CHO per hour!
That's apparently possible according to Asker and one of his atheletes but I've tried those levels of carbs per hour and struggle with it.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008807/