Glorious weather and (mostly) dry tracks made for an excellent event at Sutton Bank yesterday. Thank to John Dixon for his planning and organising efforts – his comments below.

Provisional MapRun results are here. A couple of riders experienced some phone issues, and Tim thinks those are all resolved but please get in touch if you spot any scoring issues.

Final results will be published in the next couple of days.

Recent sunshine had dried out the tracks considerably since I test rode them a few weeks ago. More sun today tempted over 50 riders to turn out, some for the first time. Hopefully they enjoyed themselves and will try further events.

As usual, a few riders, who shall remain nameless, cleaned up or came very close to it. The rest seemed to have taken a variety of routes but for most it was an uphill finish. Despite that, there were positive remarks about the area, especially to the west, which was new to quite a few of the riders. Thanks to the Park Authority and the Bike Shop for their support

Online entry for this Saturday’s 3 hour MBO closes tonight – enter here

Registration is 09:15 – 10:15 and starts are 09:30-1030 (see details below)

The MapRun course is ready for you to download – if you are reading this on your phone you can click this link to open it.

Otherwise you can use the QR code below, or select the event manually:
Select event | UK | north yorkshire | NYMBO | Summer 2024 | Sutton Bank

Parking for this event is shown on the picture below, registration will be in the car park. Parking will be signed. Parking is FREE providing you park in our dedicated area

Access to “our” car park is also subject to several one way loops. From the west, turn 1st Left at the top of Sutton Bank, from the east pass most of the entrances and take a Right turn (before the “no right turn” sign) and go through a car park to reach “ours”.
it’s either a short walk along the footpath shown, or a ride along the A170 to the start/finish location. You’ll get your printed map at the start, and MapRun should trigger as soon as you ‘go to start‘ at that point.

There is 10% off for NYMBO riders in the bike shop (Show your muddy map, your BMBO membership or just hope she trusts you!)

Our next event is on Saturday 11th May at the top of Sutton Bank.

You can enter online here

Adult entry fee this season is £12 – with a 25% discount for entries received by Monday 6th (so a bargain £9 entry)

Here’s the course map – note the distance between car parking and the start/finish (details to follow next week) along with any other details for this event.

It’s 3 hours, and, as is now our standard, will be using MapRUn (get in touch if any questions)

Entry for our next event at Sutton bank on 11th May is open – further event details to follow soon.

Finally, the fnal results for recent events have been uploaded:

Tholthorpe (January)

Bridge Hewick (March)

North Rigton (April)

2024 events list

You’ll be able to see the provisional results for yesterday’s event on MapRun.

There are a few adjustments to be made for a few riders etc – the final results available short. if you have any amendments that you didn’t advise Tony of at the finish, please get in touch asap.

Thanks to Tony for his planning effort, especially a top quality map (I patricularly liked the various little notes for some tracks) Here’s his  report:

Thanks to all of you for coming and for the many kind comments. Apologies for the mud. I could see no way of avoiding controls that required mud, but maybe I should just plan gravel bike events in future. My best control was 19 where the gate was about two feet deep. This control is mostly Tim’s fault as he told me I shouldn’t use the bridleway that crosses the railway line to the NW of 19 (he was right of course as it could have been dangerous), so I moved the control from that bridleway to the other side of the A61. On the day there was a rail strike so the railway crossing would have been entirely safe……

Congratulations to Andy Conn for managing 63km and 362 points. He went NE first and then clockwise, sensibly avoiding the steepest bit of the area up the Washburn valley. As usual I probably used too big an area, but had it been drier, I think the pace would have been significantly faster. Most people told me their ambition and route gradually shrunk as they went round the controls: a combination of mud and hills. And the larger area means there is no obvious single route and you continually have to make choices about road or bridleway and large scale strategy. Looking through the results there is a very wide variety of different routes.

Finally, a big thank you to Tim Evans for doing a lot behind the scenes, including resolving a last minute panic about the maps.

Next event is May 11th at Sutton Bank. Lovely weather, no mud, lots of hills.

Tony

There’s still time to enter online for the North Rigton event on Saturday – enter here

The MapRun course is now available to download at the usual location – the QR code is below. The start and finish locations are also shown on the photo.

It’s a 3 hour event with registration from 08:50 – 10:00 and starts between 09:15 – 10:15 and the course map is in the previous post

Parking – There is limited parking at the Square and Compass, LS17 0DJ, which is the start/finish. There is an additional small parking area behind the pub. PLEASE only park in the pub if you will eat or drink there – they will be busy at lunchtime. There is parking space on the road outside the pub by the primary school and the memorial hall. Please don’t obstruct entrances or get too near the road junction in the village.

Registration – outside the pub door if fine or in the pub if wet.

Toilets – there are toilets in the pub which should be open from 9.00. No muddy shoes/boots in the pub.

Food – the pub has an extensive menu. There is no need to order food in advance, but likely pre-ordering at registration

MapRun – if you’re using the MapRun app on your phone make sure it’s MapRun7, and don’t forget to download the event in advance (folder is UK:North Yorkshire:NYMBO: North Rigton) – updated FAQ here. The MapRun map is the competition map but the resolution is not as good as the printed map, although all the controls are (I hope) in the right place. They have all been checked for accuracy.

Start/Finish – You can register from 0850-1000 and start from 0915-1015. The time limit is 3 hours with the usual penalties. There are no pre-assigned start times; first come, first served. At the start you will get a printed map with all the controls and descriptions on. The start is the road junction in North Rigton, but as we have set the control range at 30m, it is likely to start you as soon as you tap ‘go to start’. So, when told to start, and not before, tap ‘Go To Start’ on MapRun and it should bleep when the GPS finds you at the start. You will be timed from that point. The finish is at the N end of the pub car park. Please then report back to registration to confirm your finish: in the pub garden or in the pub if wet. I cannot see why anyone would cycle back past the start until they want to finish, but if you do MapRun may end your run. You can restart by ‘Go To Start” and it will record this as a separate run. We will make adjustments at the end if anything goes wrong. A Strava track of your route would be good evidence!

Course map – the blank course map is here. The main map is 1:40000, adapted from the 50000 OS and 300x280mm. It is marked with the usual 30 controls with points values between 5 and 30.

Safety – this event has some very busy roads. These are clearly shown on the map in blue. We urge you to wear a bright top, use lights and take great care. An unmanned, unsignalled level crossing has been marked as out of bounds for safety reasons – do not use this bridleway.
You must report to the finish. There is an emergency contact number on the map.

Terrain – It’s hilly. The rideability of the bridleways is shown on the map – see the legend – but these are very weather and ride dependent. There is one short footpath at the E end of Danefield which you can use, but you must give way to any walkers you come across.

Our next NYMBO event is at North Rigton (southwest of Harrogate) on Saturday 6th April

Online entry here (closes midnight Thursday 4th)

Tony Thornley has been hard at work planning this event, and the blank course map is below. There are some busy roads on the course, so worth familiarising yourself with the course beforehand, wearing bright clothing and using daylights on your bike.

It’s a 3 hour event with registration from 08:50 – 10:00 and starts between 09:15 – 10:15

The venue is The Square and Compass – further details on parking next week.

North Rigton course map 6th April

The results from Saturday’s event are here and also a pdf version. Control map at the end of this post.

It was great to see 53 riders head out on Saturday and always good to see a few new faces too. I hope you all enjoyed your ride, thankfully the worst impending rain relented until everyone had finished!. Thank you for the many positive comments.

Following a few changes of venue, together with the very wet winter, it proved tricky to piece together a course with any decent bridleways, or even roads!, that weren’t axel deep in mud and water. We even had to move a couple of controls the night before the maps went to press!.

The two river crossing points were obviously key to route decisions and as it turned out, also responsible for quite a number of lateness penalties.

I tried to offer options for all once over the river. I think an anti-clockwise route from the start proved the safer option, this leaving a little more choice and leeway when turning for “home” rather than the committed return via Littlethorpe. That being said, decent scores were made in all starting directions. The winner chose an anti-clockwise start and even managed the north east loop of controls after clearing the majority in the south – impressive riding.

Scores, especially throughout the top 10, were very tightly packed. It was good to see Nuno Cerqueira over from Portugal and rewarded for his weekend trip with overall honours (459 points) followed by Martin Edwards in second. Impressive in 3rd & 4th were Y18 riders Isaac Pressly (409) & James Harrison (394) closely followed by top M21 Max Vesty (390). Jeffrey & Laura Barber took Gen honours (380) followed by top M50 David Cook (370) pipping top Mix Dave Cowgill & Claire Riley (360) who were very closely followed by a great ride from M70 victor David Day (358). First solo lady home was Sarah Slade (290) and Ebike honours went to Paul Collier (336).

Seamus from The BlackaMoor rang me to say he enjoyed hosting us, so a big thank you to him and his team. Also massive thanks must go to Tim Evans for his usual invaluable help and a great map, in addition to his organiser role, and also Dave Robertson for his website wizardry.

Lastly thanks to you all for making it another successful event.

Simon Coiley – Planner

Online entry is available on the BMBO site here

An updated blank course map is below following some last minute changes. If you’ve already downloaded the MapRun course before 20:00 Wednesday, then you’ll need to download again.

Here’s the start / finish locations for this Saturday’s event (note that they are in different places for this event.

Parking: please park carefully and economically to ensure we can get everyone in!

The MapRun course download is now available. You can use the QR code, or you can find it manually by in MapRun by choosing:

Select Event | UK | North Yorkshire | NYMBO | Winter 23

Our next event is on Saturday 2nd March at Bridge Hewick.

Online entry is now available (it might still say ‘Burton Leonard’ but the event is definitely based at Bridge Hewick at The Black A Moor Inn. Course Map below.

After plenty of checking of wet bridleways and even unusable roads, Simon has settled on a very rideable course on the many quieter roads and firmer ‘drier’ tracks. Hopefully the weather will start behaving and you can all enjoy a relatively dry and rapid ride on the day*.

It’s a 2 hour event; registration from 0915 -1015 and starts from 0930 – 1030

The pub is on the B6265 at Bridge Hewick east of Ripon. HG4 5AA

Although the car park is quite large there is no alternative parking so please park efficiently.
Pub grub will be available afterwards, menu will be available to pre order at registration as recent events.

If you have any issues with online entry on the BMBO site please use our manual entry form to reserve a map here

*note that this is not guaranteed

Course map 2nd March