This is the fourth year we’ve asked you to vote on your favourite league event – for the last two years it’s been Dalby Forest, with Swaledale taking the top spot in 2011. Which will be favourite this year? Poll will stay open until the 9th November.

Treasure hunt MBO dates and locations:

SAT 15th NOVEMBER 2014 Malt Shovel, Hovingham YO62 4LF

SAT 13th DECEMBER 2014 South Lodge, Ripon HG4 1ST

SAT 24th JANUARY 2015 York/Malton area – to be confirmed

SAT 21st FEBRUARY 2015 Harrogate/Knaresborough area – to be confirmed

Full details and entry here

Nidderdale Organiser’s Comments

Thanks to David Day for yet another excellent course which used the intricate lane and bridleway network south and east of Grewlthorpe and the cracking moorland bridleways to the west. It was only 2C when I left home which brought back memories of our last visit to Grewelthorpe so I was glad when the sun broke through the fog to give a perfect calm autumn day – although the mist seemed to linger longer around North Stainley.

Thanks to Grewelthorpe Village Hall for an excellent event centre including refreshments and thanks to Jens for yet another excellent map.

Thanks to the helpers I was able to enjoy my ride after I got over my annoyance caused by #60 having been stolen. At least it was in an obvious place and replaced quickly by David with a punch but if you went there and haven’t got the points please let me know. A few riders decided to use the road between 60 and 59 but I preferred to head back through Ilton and over the moors before the superb ride across Fountains Earth Moor to Swetton.

Congratulations to Graham Fielding and Al Powell – joint leaders in M40 with 464 points – with John Houlihan only 2 points behind in M50. Ray Morriss won M60 comfortably as did Rik Thompson in M21. Jill Ellison was the highest scoring woman and Nathan Parker won Y18.

John Dixon sorted out the results very quickly so that the prizegiving took place promptly at 3.30. Prizes had been kindly donated by the Yorkshire Dales Brewing Company and Richardsons with engraving by Keith James Jewellery of Richmond.

Extra prizes and t-shirts came from the surplus money in the NYMBO account.

Congratulations to the category winners

M21 Rik Thompson W21 Jenny Sutton X21 Kelly & Dave Wilby

M40 Andrew Windrum W40 Sheila Pearce X40 Ruth Greenwood & Graham Murray

M50 Graham Fielding W50 Charlotte Somers-Cocks X50 Andrea & Steve Foster

M60 Ray Morris W60 Karen Blackburn X60 Karen Clark & Steve Roberts

Final thanks to the control collectors everything was in before it started to rain at 5.00.

The 2015 league will start again in March with a mixture of 3 and 4 hour events. Please let me know if you would like to offer to plan one.

Our winter events start on Saturday 15^th November in the Howardian Hills – details on the web site.

Hope to see you there.

Steve

Late PS Someone left a pair of cycling shoes at the village hall. I have got them at home so please let me know if they are yours.

Here is the map so you can check riders routes if you couldn’t make it.

Full report tomorrow but 4 quick points

What a great day to finish the season – cool but dry in sunny and stunning countryside looking down on the fog banks beyond Ripon

We were disappointed that #60 was stolen so please let me know if you went there and didn’t let us know at Download so that I can give you the points.

Someone left a pair of cycling shoes. Please let me know if they are yours

2 riders didn’t download so I have emailed them. Reminder to everyone that if you start you must download so that we know you are back safely – and don’t just rely on seeing an empty car park!!

If you check my route on Strava you may notice that I forgot to turn if off at Grewelthorpe so I have got some remarkable times on my drive home to Richmond. I’ll check my bike computer in the morning!

Here’s the Grewelthorpe map….

The event centre is at Grewelthorpe Village Hall (GR 231 761 Grewelthorpe Village Hall HG4 3BT West of the A6108, 6 miles NW of Ripon and 3 miles S of Masham)

Parking: Newholme Farm Caravan Park on the Ripon Road into Grewelthorpe (GR 233 758 – Newholme Farm HG4 3DR – 500m S of the village hall.) Please ride to Registration which opens at 9.30 so that you are ready to Start between 10 and 11am.

Here are a few comments from David Day (Course Planner)

Yet another new venue this year – the former Grewelthorpe Methodist Chapel recently opened as a village hall (see website, there is lots going on here). The building includes a community café which will serve food and drinks before and after the event – please support this venture.
The area consists of a complex network of quiet roads, bridleways through farmland and Land Rover tracks on the grouse moors west of the event centre. The purple heather is particularly beautiful at this time of year if riders have time to look around.
At the time of writing there has been so little rainfall that tracks are as fast as they will ever be (cue signal for non-stop rain from now!) There is a ford on the River Laver with no accompanying footbridge which I have never succeeded in cycling through (marked on the map) but alternative routes do exist.

Prizegiving will take place at 3.30 so please stay to applaud the leading riders in both the BMBO and NYMBO Leagues.
Prizes have again been kindly sponsored by Richardson’s of Scarborough and the Yorkshire Dales Brewing Company with engraving by Keith James Jewellers of Richmond – and NYMBO will be providing the highly valued t-shirts as well as a few extra prizes.

Grewelthorpe Map without Controls