Adrian’s excellent event at Cracoe was a fitting finale to NYMBOs 2024 summer league. The final league can be found at the link below, it differs slightly from that on the day as we had the planners scores wrong, but it doesn’t impact on any prizes handed out.

NYMBO League 24 final standings

Congratulations to our category winners:

• Mix 60 Andrea and Steve Foster
• Mix 50 Claire Riley and Dave Cowgill
• Mix 21 Daisy and Michael Freer
• W70 Karen Blackburn
• W60 Angela Brand-Barker
• W50 Carmen Elphick
• W40 Fiona Wright
• W21 Daisy Freer
• M70 Steve Willis
• M60 Paul Dobson
• M50 and overall champion Andy Conn
• M40 Mark Chryssannthou
• M21 Toby Rochester
• E-bike Keith Foster

This years prizes were included NYMBO cycling tops for the category winners; Dales Biking Centre vouchers and Yorkshire Dales Brewery Beer for the runners up.

If you rode 4 events or more this season then you quality for a NYMBO water bottle – please collect one at the your event if you didn’t get one at Cracoe!If you were lucky enough to receive a DBC voucher, please fill it in as follows (left blank due to an admin error 😀):

I hope you all enjoyed the series and numbers are starting to rise, I was worried about all the 4 hour events but it has allowed us to use better areas. Please spread the word about our events and how welcoming we all are (and if we aren’t please tell us!!).

I think the refreshments after the event seems to be encouraging you all to stay behind and chat and there is rarely any left over which is a good sign and encourages early starts.

Maprun seems to be working well for most of you. It makes life much easier for the planner and there are no controls to collect or get stolen, we also don’t seem to suffer as much from incorrect placement, if you are struggling with map run let us know we can set up short courses from your house or there are plenty of courses out there to try out.

Similarly if there is anything you would like to see or anything that annoys you let us know you may not be the only one and it may be something we hadn’t considered. As an example we think there may be an issue with some phones going to sleep after 30 minutes so we will try and avoid long legs that might take longer.

Thanks to all this years planners, Tony Thornley, John Dixon , David Day, Conrad and Jill Ellison, Steve Willis and Adrian Parker. Also thanks to Dave Robertson for all the comms and maintaining the website, Steve Willis for sorting the prizes and money, John Dixon for the league results, our sponsors Yorkshire Dales Brewery and Dales Bike Centre and all of you for entering and riding our events.

I look forward to seeing you at some the 4 winter events the first of which is the 9th November at Kirkby Malzeard.

We have 5 events with planners for next year but if you fancy having a go at planning and have an area in mind please talk to Steve or myself at an event or drop an email. You will be given lots of help and advice, it would be nice to go back to the Wolds.

Cheers

Tim

Tim & Steve doing the 2024 prize giving!