Here’s Tim’s report and the finalised results for Sicklinghall – apologies for the delay, it’s been a bit busy!! Sicklinghall Results

42 riders turned up on what turned out to be a far better day than originally forecast, with later starters having slightly less rain . I enjoyed my rides checking control placement and knew that even with the rain most tracks would be rideable. My main errors and apologies, was using local knowledge in a couple of places, the Bridleway behind Wood Hall which has changed recently and the bridleway north of the Devils Toe Nail where locals know to keep left and pick up the track, I was unaware that the bridleway crossing the old railway was now more prominent and also not shown on the 1:50.000 map ( it is on the 1:25,000) I can see from the traces that this caught out a few of you and I can only apologise.

Thanks to all of you for turning up and to the Scotts Arms for the hospitality and for the positive comments on my planning which seemed to make you all have to think carefully about where to go. When planning the map I looked at the 2015 and 2019 maps and decided to keep the area about the same and if tracks had been a bit quicker Martin may have got over 500. The trouble is the western route can’t be made shorter as there are no tracks that you would want to use and many of you realised this and committed to it

The results and riders routes are on the maprun server here , and a results summary is here: Sicklinghall Results, Thank you to all those who have uploaded your results, I have assumed a couple of the groups and if I have your score wrong please let me know and I will correct.

Congratulations to Martin Edwards the overall and M40 winner who rode 53 km and scored 385 points, second and 1st M50 was Simon ‘I’m taking it easy ‘ Coiley with 346 points and 3rd and 1st M60 was Paul Dobson with 325 points. 1st M70 was David Day with 302 points ( after an organisers recount!) 1st Ladies were Jemima Parker and Jo Anderson with 225 points , 1st Mixed pair were Lindsey and Robert King with 211 points and 1st Generation were Rik and Ewan Thompson with 174 points. 1st e-bike was Tony Thornley with 295 points

The results from today’s event can be found here – choose Sicklinghall from the list. please let Tim know of any errors or corrections asap – and if your result isn’t shown please get in touch!

MapRun Sicklinghall

Enter online for Sicklinghall on Saturday 18th here

The start and finish locations are below (the course map is in the previous post).

You can scan the QR code for the course download, or you can navigate through MapRun from ‘Select event’ UK | north yorkshire | nymbo | winter 23

The course has been updated so if you downloaded it before Wednesday night, you will need to replace the course download.

A course note – the controls are located at the centre of each control circle – which may not be the centre of the road or track you are riding!

Finally, although there is no need to email food orders for the Scotts Arms, they would like food orders before you set off riding. Menu is on their website

Online entry for Sicklinghall on Saturday November 18th is open here

Date – Saturday 18th November
Venue – Scotts Arms, Sicklinghall, LS22 4BD
registration – 0900 – 1000 | start – 0930 – 1030

The course map is below, Tim’s been out checking the tracks on his cross bike, as you can see in the picture!

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COURSE MAP

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The Winter Series dates are mostly confirmed:

• 18th November Scotts Arms Sicklinghall (click to enter)
• 9th December Scorton Lakes
• 20th January  Tholthorpe
• February / March TBC (17th/24th Feb or 2nd/9th March)
• 6th April North Rigton

All of them will have 0930 – 1030 starts, will use MapRun and will be 2 hours except for North Rigton which will be 2.5 or 3 hours.

2023 League

Full league results are here: NYMBO League 23 after 10 events

Congratulations to all the category winners:

• Gen – Martin & William Edwards
• M21 – Nuno Cerqueira
• M40 – Carl Vincent
• W40 – Claire Riley
• M50 – Andy Conn
• W50 – Jill Ellison
• M60 – Paul Dobson
• W60 – Angela Brand-Barker
• X60 – Andrea & Steve Foster
• M70 – Steve Willis
• W70 – Karen Blackburn
• Ebike – Ray Morriss

Please get in touch with Tim if you have yet to collect your prize!

Our final event for our 2023 league was planned by Steve and Andrea Foster, their race report is below, along with the control map and some photos from the event and the prize-giving. Congratulations to all our category winners this season!

Well I’d better start with a heartfelt apology to those who visited the heinous track between the flooded road and Broxa village. ‘Mea Culpa’ for not checking the final copy of the map. Very disappointed in myself as I had ridden 3 other similar tracks and dismissed them from the original planned course. The only excuse is that Tim & I were making changes to the course up until Thursday as FC had some requests to change / move things about. Note to self, learn to do your own map and check everything with a bit more time to spare. For those that said rest of course was great thanks, and for those who were “spitting feathers” at the finish, quite understand.

I think other than that everyone enjoyed the riding and the challenging terrain. We’ve not been to Broxa and Wykeham for 7 years and quite a lot of tracks had changed in their rideability, we were blessed with a ridiculously warm day for October, no rain and most tracks were riding well.

Highlights for me, whilst out planning were the tracks along the North edge of Broxa, the various bridleways within the forest and the track along the East edge of Wykenham.

Introducing Raincliffe Woods also added some great riding and enough extra distance / height gain to ensure that even the best riders would struggle to clear the course although Andy Windrum did a fantastic effort to get 485.”

Thanks to Doreen at Hackness Village Hall for arranging its use and to Andrea and Liz for administering the sign on / finish, Tim for the map and John Dixon for calculating the league scores, on the fly!

7 October 2023 – Control Map

There’s still time to enter our 3 hour event on Saturday, which promises some fine riding around the forests of Wykeham & Broxa

Online entry here (closes Thursday, discounts until Wednesday)

The course for Saturday is now available to download, using the QR code below. Alternatively, you can follow the folder path in MapRun: UK | North Yorkshire | NYMBO | Summer 2023

Don’t forget to make sure you have the latest version of MapRun on your phone (we’re no longer using MapRun6)

And also don’t forget that this is an afternoon event – registration 1200 – 1300 and starts 1230 – 1330.

Blank Map can be found in the previous post

All other details are here

Here is the current league, thanks to John Dixon for pulling this together.

Here’s the course map for the next event. If you’ve already done 4 events this year then if you enter this event you’ll reach the five events needed to receive this years NYMBO mug! Prize-giving after this event for all the category winners.

Updated 6th October 1645: start/finish location corrected

Full event details in the previous post here

Online entry is on the BMBO site – 50% off entries received by Wednesday, online entry closes Thursday

Wykeham & Broxa Course map

A 3 hour AFTERNOON event, event centre at Hackney’s Village Hall

The last NYMBO event of the 2023 league is based around Hackness Village, close to Scarborough on the Eastern edge of the North Yorkshire Moors.

Online Entry Here

The forests and surrounding trails around Hackness haven’t been used since 2016 and offer a wide range of riding.

Not 1 but 3 wooded areas are covered by the event, Broxa, Wykenham and Raincliffe woods.

The event utilises as much singletrack as possible so there are some fast (and some less fast) flowing trails with great views, and a few tricky climbs / descents. However once up these climbs both Broxa and Wykeham offer some relatively flat riding.

As of last Saturday (23rd) most of the trails were riding really well, and as the forecast is pretty reasonable I’m hoping that this will be the case on the 7th

Parking : We have use of the Village Hall, officially from 12:30 ish onwards IF you arrive early then it might be sensible on street parking, obviously avoiding blocking the village and annoying the locals.

Registration 12:00 -13:00

Starts 12:30-13:30

Don’t forget there will be prize giving for all our category winners after the event and if you’ve ridden 5 events this season then you qualify for the NYMBO 2023 League Mug!! 🏆