It’s 2 weeks until the Bank Holiday, and you can take advantage of the 50% discount on entry fees if you get your entry in early.
Saturday 26th August – at the usual venue of the Malham Show, with entry to the show included when you’ve finished your ride. Full details available soon,online entry here
Monday 28th August – Cropton Forest – online entry here
We’re just finalising the start/finish details and these should be available next week. There’s not been a NYMBO event at Cropton Forest since 2018, and there’s a bit of work to finalise the map with the correct tracks, but here’s an idea of the area the event will cover. More details soon.
NYMBO League meanwhile, John Dixon has been hard at work sorting out the league after 5 events, which you can checkout here– NYMBO League 23 after 5 events
Thanks to all those who ventured out when the weather forecast was poor although it never got worse than drizzle, some of those with waterproofs found themselves overheating. As one competitor said ‘on a day like this it’s easy just to stay at home, so this event gave me an incentive to get out & do something.’
I tried to offer a wide variety of minor roads & BWs with decisions to be made at most controls on route options. Every control was visited & there was no clear formula for success. The BWs at Bents House, from Kirkby Malzeard to Holmes Farm & the one S of Biggins House would be new to most of you. Use the access code 6863 if you want to look at the tracks for this event. Some of you may have spotted mosaics scattered around the area; when linked together they form the Crackpots Mozaic Trail.
More riders than normal were late back with some severely penalised. There were a few instances of riders not following the BW at Galphay Woods but taking the [easier] farm track instead. They have apologised & the organisers in this instance have decided to take no further action, some events recently have deducted points for similar transgressions.
Thanks to the village hall cafe for hosting us, feeding us & providing space to socialise before & after your rides; sorry that the pub has closed – that would have been an option as a venue.
Overall winner = Andy Conn M50, 403 pts; 2nd = Martin Edwards M40, 360; 3rd = Stephen Collins M50, 345; Paul Dobson was M60 winner, 340; Steve Willis top M70, 315.
Ladies winner = Angela Brand-Barker W60, 356; 2nd = Claire Riley W40, 313; 3rd = Helen Bagley W60, 230. Top E-bike was Ray Morriss with 350.
The Grewelthorpe area has been used before for bike O but David Day has found some bridleways for you to explore which should be new to most of you.
The area will include some fantastic views of North Yorkshire from the moors to the east; a complex variety of minor roads with little traffic; some navigational decisions on the many BWs. The Swetton Moor BW is mapped as invisible & is not recommended; the Holmes Farm BW is also mapped as invisible but is a good grass surface & perfectly rideable. There is a ford on the BW S of Hedge Nook which will normally be calf deep & not recommended. The BW through Galphay Woods has been diverted & the map has been corrected to reflect the new route.
Grewelthorpe Cafe will be open before & after the event but they are asking for pre-orders
by midnight Wednesday prior. Menu is attached, soup choices are mushroom or carrot &
coriander; there are also bacon rolls at £3.50. Food choices to David by the entry deadline:
ripondays@gmail.com
Thanks to Conrad and Jill for planning an excellent course, and for providing much needed quiche and pork pie sustenance at the end! Apologies for the slight confusion about the location of the Village Hall for parking!
Results are here – Andy Conn cleared the course in less than the 3 hour time limit and some high scores for others. We’ll clear up the duplicate entries, get in touch with any issues.
Event report:
Thank you for coming along to ride at the event. The tracks were bone dry, and the weather wasn’t too hot with a bit of cloud cover. Jill and I wanted a high scoring event with the fast riders having to worry about whether to leave isolated five pointers around the course.
Most of you seemed to enjoy getting up on the Cleveland Escarpment and around Urra Moor. The tracks were sandy in places but quick once you got going. Judging by the Maprun courses riders made use of the various routes up to and down from the escarpment.
Well done to Andy C for bagging up in 2 hours forty odd minutes and to all of you for some tough riding. We’re glad that many of you stayed for the pies and teas at the end. It’s always great to spend a bit more time catching up with our Bike O buddies.
Thank you to Ingleby Greenhow Village Hall, to the Dudley Arms for the use of their car park, to Tony Thornley for his fantastic map drawing and finally to Tim for his great help and support as ever.
Hope to see you all soon. Happy, safe riding.
Jill and Conrad Ellison
Copy of the control map to follow (thanks to Tony Thornley for aplying his excellent cartography skills to produce a great map!)
BMBO National Champs
if you fancy a trip south then the weekend of 8th & 9th July is the BMBO national Championships at Holmbury St Mary. Details here and a camping discussion on Facebook here
The next NYMBO event is Saturday 22nd July– details to follow soon.
We’ve got 10 SPARE MAPS for anyone who wishes to ENTER ON THE DAY!
you’ll find the blank course map in the previous post
Jill has done a sterling job testing all of the grotty tracks for Conrad, and the recent weather means everything should be pretty dry! There are snacks provided at the finish as well!
In our M70 class. two riders have been out today to test the course and the map – Steve’ the cash’ Willis narrowly beat Tony ’the map’ Thornley by 10 points with a score of 440 to Tonys 430, This sets the bar for some some clear ups to happen on Saturday – they did both do 45km!
there may be an update on parking arrangements later today – it will be in this spot if you check back later
Look forward to seeing riders tomorrow, don’t forget your sunscreen!
A quick note about the next event on 17 June. Looking forward to seeing you at the event. I rode it yesterday to check Maprun. The tracks are bone dry and really quick. You can avoid nettles, brambles, hogweed and cow parsley completely. There are still bluebells in the woods. I’m looking forward to seeing some big scores. The event area takes you up on the Cleveland Escarpment near Round Hill (1490ft). Pies and quiche and refreshments will be provided at the finish.
Avoiding the woods opened up a new area. The weather made some of the trails more difficult and the navigation demanded full conversation but everyone seemed to have enjoyed the challenge.
Thanks to everyone who turned out and thanks to High Paradise for hosting another event. I’ll be back for more coffee and scones very soon.
Here’s the track map, if yours doesn’t feature please make sure your track has uploaded. It seems no-one ventured to control 4!
The MapRun course download is now available, you can use the QR code below, or you will find the download on MapRun by following this path: Select Event | UK | North Yorkshire | NYMBO | Summer 2023 | Paradise…
Access to High Paradise Farm is one-way – please arrive at the event using the lower access road on Sneck Yat Bank and depart via the Drove Road to come out at Sneck Yat, top of Boltby Bank.
Parking will be through the gate between the camp site and the farm buildings.
Registration from 9.00 – 10.15 and starts from 9.30 – 10.30. You’ll find the start/finish locations
Any last minute updates will be posted here if required
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