You’ll find the results for Saturday’s event here (updated Monday).

There are still a few updates to be made before these are finalised, please get in touch if you spot anything amiss.

Thanks to all the people who came to the Thorp Arch event, the weather was kind and felt like spring (until I rode home when the hailstorm seemed to pace me). The Cafe went down well and Tim, the owner, sends his thanks to us for coming. The portions were generous and I was particularly taken by the “Big Daddy Tea”. 

I enjoyed planning the event, this is an area I ride from home but I’d not ridden all of the bridleways before. It took some investigation with tracks on the OS map not agreeing with tracks on the ground, tracks on the ground not being on the map and fingerposts having yet a third opinion. The weekend before, I even found a new section of cycle lane that wasn’t there previously.

There was a last minute change to checkpoint 26 to move it away from the river edge. Thursday brought biblical rain and rivers were high. I thought it best to keep away from the edge so we didn’t trial the first NYMBOA – A for aquabike. 

Despite the rain, tracks were reported as generally dry and running well. One local, familiar with the area, said this caught them out as they came in with significant time to spare. Other locals tried tracks they’d not been on before and people reported liking the variety.

It was a good turn out with 47 people in total. Great to see a few new faces both the older generation and younger in the GEN category, we think the 6 gen pairs at one event is a record our statistician is currently getting his notebook out to check.

Every checkpoint was visited and not just because Andy Conn cleared up. Most riders concentrated on the south of the map sacrificing the far north. There were a couple of interesting routes taken, nearly a visit to Wetherby services and a few routes beyond the extent of the checkpoints. A couple of riders used the footpath alongside the river to go between 20 and 26. A penalty equal to the points of the checkpoint travelled to have been deducted for using a footpath as this would have provided an advantage over using the legal road route. 

Reported incidents included – one puncture, a broken mapboard and an airborne phone on a descent (recovered safely). Someone kindly picked up a Camelback Podium water bottle at one of the checkpoints and handed it to me at the end. If the owner recognises it from the photo on the nymbo website let me know and I will try to get it back to you.

Congratulations to the leading riders
M70      David Day – how would this have panned out if his lifetime rival hadn’t opted for an Ebike?
M60     Andy Conn
M50     Jeff Green
M40solo    Paul French
M40pair  Simon Bruton and Kevin Goodwin

Ebike     Steve Willis, despite saying at the start he wasn’t going to be competitive 

Gen     Martin and Will Edwards

W80    Karen Blackburn
W60    Sarah Slade
W50    Jo Anderson and Jemima Parker
W40    Louise Baker
Mix50   Sally Buckworth and Saul Muldoon

Thanks again to everyone for coming and for your kind words of thanks at the end. Its satisfying that people get the enjoyment you hope they will.

Online entries for this Saturday at Thorp Arch close midnight Thursday. We’ve got 45 entries so far and have printed 55 maps – there should be some entry on the day available but always better to secure one early.

The MapRun QR code is underneath if you need it or you can follow the manual path
select event / UK / North Yorkshire / NYMBO / Summer 25 /select event / UK / North Yorkshire / NYMBO / Winter 25-26 /

The event is called NYMBO Thorp Arch.  ( too distinguish from the CLARO running event using the same event centre!) If anyone wants to do both run and ride with a supervised finish they need to start the first event before 09:40 and do the 60 minute run maximum.

Start & Finish and Parking locations below:

It’s just over a week until our next event on Saturday 14th March – this is the last 2 hour event of our winter series, so a great option for a shorter ride!

Registration 0915 – 1015 | Starts 0930 – 1030 | 2 hour course

ENTER ONLINE HERE

Discounted entries available until midnight Monday 9th March
Online entry closes midnight Thursday 12th

The event centre is Tim’s Café on Thorp Arch Trading Estate.

There’s ample parking and the café is open from 8am to 2.30pm. The trading estate is quite unusual as an ex-military site, now also home to the British Library. The course is relatively flat with most tracks and bridleways having a surface that will be firm despite the wet weather. May even be dry if spring stays!

The area isn’t as rural a usual but there are a surprising number of, and variety of tracks and bridleways. Claire will be checking the course this weekend.

An old railway line runs through part of the course, this can be busy with runners and dog walkers so a bell would be advisable.

The map straddles the A1. There are crossing points by underpass and cycle paths around roundabouts but please be careful of traffic if your route choice crosses a busy road.

MapRun details and Start/Finish locations will be published next week ahead of the event.

The blank course map is below.

09/03 Updated map at this link

https://nymbo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/thorpe-arch-0903.pdf

14 March 2026 – Thorpe Arch

Results from Saturday are here, Steve’s report is below along with the control map. Thanks as always to Steve for course planning.

Next event is Saturday 14th March and online entry will be open for that shortly.

I was impressed with everyone’s positive attitude when they finished very wet and muddy after 2 hours in that weather – especially if they had ridden through the flooded road within 5 minutes of starting!! Some riders luckily finished with very clean bikes having made #6 their last control !!
I thoroughly enjoyed planning the course but admittedly I did my first 2 recces in October when the bridleways were nice and dry. Then my final check in November when they were frozen solid. However, I did put out the taped route and checked the 3 controls we had to move last Wednesday so I realised that the soft bridleways were going to be a challenge. Unfortunately, at the last minute, I was asked to avoid the tracks on the west side of the nature reserve which is why they were marked OOB. Thanks for avoiding them but you are welcome to use them casually if you come back to ride there when/if the weather improves.
All of the controls were visited, everyone tried at least one of the wet bridleways and no-one used the out of bound tracks on the west side of Scorton Lakes. However, a few riders need to take a bit more care with their navigation so that we stick to the tracks that we are allowed to ride.
5 riders carried on along the disused railway line after visiting #30 instead of turning right onto the bridleway along the edge of the field. 3 of them realised and turned back but 2 riders carried on so will be deducted the 20 points they score for visiting #20
Too many riders continued SW after visiting #18, most of them turned right at the next junction but 3 continued along the private drive, 2 of them realised and turned round but one rider continued to the road on the way to #22 so will be deducted 25 points. 
A few riders kept right at the track junction SW of #21 and continued along the footpath before turning round and a few riders missed the junction SE of #29 before rectifying their mistake. Please take more care.
Congratulations to the leading riders SM Nuno Cerquira 481 VM Paul Dobson 425 SW Jemima Parker 345 VW Andrea Foster 289
Thanks to Ellerton Lakeside Cafe for an excellent event centre. 
Hope to see you at our next event at Thorpe Arch on March 14th when the weather will hopefully be much better!!
Steve

Results from Saturday’s event can be found here

If anything doesn’t look right, please get in touch for Tim to make any adjustments.

Steve’s report to follow shortly.

Online entry for this Saturday’s event is here, discounted entries until midnight Monday, online entry until midnight Thursday; EOD may be possible thereafter. Don’t forget to renew your BMBO membership (either full or day membership available).

Here’s the course map – see the previous post for Steve’s comments about the bridleways!

Start & Finish Locations

Start Finish Locations

Updated – see this newer post for the course map

Bridleway junction between Gatherley and Uckerby

As Storm Chandra makes its way across the country, Steve’s been out checking the bridleways for our next event at Scorton on Saturday 7th February.

The forecast is cold and wet leading up to the event so the soft sections on the 5 bridleways will be tough – however the junction pictured above does NOT feature on the course!!

You can start with some fine navigation on excellent tracks around the reclaimed gravel pits but please give way to the many walkers and their dogs. Then it’s a variety of quiet country lanes in fairly gentle countryside using 5 mainly dry bridleways but please take great care crossing or using the 3 busy roads on the map. The picture below shows a bridleway that IS on the course!

ENTER ONLINE HERE

Discounted entries available until midnight Monday 2nd February

Online entry closes midnight Thursday 5th

Course map and all the other event details will be available next week, don’t let the weather put you off getting your bike out – great cafe at the end of your ride too!

Scorton course bridleway

Final results are here and you can find the MapRun tracks and splits here

Considering what was happening all over the country last weekend – gales,
snowdrifts storms etc, the weather gods smiled kindly on Ripon for the morning of
our bike event. The first line of the carol ‘earth as hard as iron, water like a stone’
certainly applied at Ripon with both football & rugby fixtures frozen off but mountain
bikers are made of sterner stuff. The course area was set so as to cover parts not
used in recent bike O events with a shift to the east, this did involve crossing the A61
for many of you but we planned so that there were safe places to cross it. When
planning I avoided the muddiest BWs but on the day most of them were motorway
speed although as the morning progressed the BW near Markenfield Hall turned
sticky.

65 km was calculated as the optimum route, leading rider was M40 Nuno Cerqueira
– 425 points after his 35 penalties, 50k ridden; rolling back the years was BMBO
treasurer M50 Simon Coiley – 360, also rolling back even more years in 3 rd place
was M60 Tim Evans. First lady was W50 Claire Riley – 332, accompanied by Dave;
2 nd lady W60 Andrea Foster with Steve in tow, 3 rd W60 Sarah Slade – 260 with a well
judged 4 seconds to spare. Generation team was Ewan & Rik Thompson – 230. All
the controls were visited & no unanimity of route choice, which is how a well planned
event should look. The most efficient man was Tim who scored 9.16 pts/km, best
lady Andrea 9.09 pts/km.

Special mention to Simon Caldwell and Carmen Elphick who both rode the bike O &
then tackled the 60 min foot O running alongside the NYMBO event. This was the
second time we have combined bike O and foot O but it was the first time that a biker
entered the foot O by mistake and a biker who downloaded the foot O MapRun course;
thanks Tim and Claro for sorting this out.

Thank you the brave souls who turned out on a freezing day & were rewarded with a
glorious sunny morning with virtually no wind & firm tracks. Thanks also to Ripon
Rugby Club for hosting us and providing welcome refreshments after and Sean for
marshalling cars and Linda for registration.

Next event is at Ellerton Lake on 7 Feb – another nice warm café after your ride.
David Day Planner

Thanks to David Day for organising another excellent event!

Winter Poster 26-Nov-2025

**UPDATE: MapRUn download is now ready, forecast looks ok, MapRun QR code added below**

It looks like our first event of the year could involve wintry conditions! Make sure to prepare both bike and rider accordingly!!

We’ve over 40 entries and there’s still time to enter here  – there might be entry on the dayh available but it’s always better to guarantee your map by entering online.

Here are the start & finish locatons, MapRun will be ready to download on Friday and this post will be updated along with any additional instructions (if required).

sgtart and finish locations