43 riders enjoyed a bright Autumnal ride around the hills and dales between Grassington and Malham, I think the decision to move from the 4th October was clearly the correct one. This area often formed part of the Malham show event and it was interesting to approach from a different direction and for those of us daft or brave enough to have the Malham climb in the middle of the event rather than the start of the event. Thank to Adrian who had planned an interesting course with no obvious route choice once you had done the first few controls. These early controls had been well designed to take you away from Cracoe avoiding the busy road. Top rider was Andy Conn with 465 points closely followed by Sheila Pearce on her bike just under 2 minutes later. 1st M60 was Mark Rowley with 390 points and it was good to see him back after his Hip op. First Lady back was Sue Booth with 324 points

The results in SI format are available on the BMBO website here.

Thank you all for getting the result on maprun quickly as the final set were sent to the BMBO nation league chairman on Sunday.

It was interesting to look at which controls were visited the most . Adrians course almost set the route in and out of Cracoe so there was only one person we can see who did an out and back before finishing to get one last control as control 2 was visited by all riders with control 20 visited bay one less , unsurprising the least visited control was 28 ( only 8 of you ) the 30 pointer in the far NW corner. I originally planned to visit this but on reaching the track to 7 decided that the 3km ride was a bit too far and as I arrived back 8 minutes late this was the correct decision. I hope the stiff gates didn’t detract from your rides too much and hope to see many of you at our first Winter event on the 8th November in Darley . Thanks to Conrad for the excellent photos and for Jemima Parker for her sterling work sorting out the food after her ride.

2025 NYMBO League Champions

Thank to The Yorkshire Dales Brewery for the end of season prizes.

Full final league spreadsheet here, thanks to John Dixon for compiling throughout the season
2025 NYMBO League FINAL v1.0

• M21 Ed Oliver-Evans
• W40 Fiona Wright
• M50 Andy Conn
• W50 Jill Ellison
• X50 Claire Riley & David Cowgill
• M60 Paul Dobson
• W60 Angela Brand-Barker
• X60 Steve & Andrea Foster
• M70 Steve Willis
• W70 Karen Blackburn
• Ebike Sheila Pearce

Storm Benjamin should have made it’s way through the UK by the weekend and there’s still a few more hours to enter online for Cracoe on Saturday. No cancellations expected this time around – although forecast looking a little colder than of late!! Hot pasties and charity cakes at the finish as part of our annual prize-giving.

The locations of the start and finish are in the picture below, and you’ll find the course map and other details in the previous posts.

REGISTRATION: 0915 – 1015 | STARTS 0930 – 1030

VENUE: Cracoe Village Hall, Cracoe, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 6LQ

PARKING: please park efficiently in the car park to maximise space for everyone

The MapRun course is ready for download (QR code) below and there are a handful of maps available for anyone who wishes to enter on the day.

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Please note that if you had entered for the 4th and are unable to ride this new date, your name will still appear on the start list whilst we process the refunds. Sorry for any confusion!

Start and Finish Locations

MapRun QR Cracoe

Cracoe – 4 hour MBO – Saturday 25th October

It’s not too late to enter this weekend’s event in Cracoe before online entries close on Thursday.

Final details will be posted here by the end of the week including the MapRun download.

The final league positions have been updated (link below) – we will need any final corrections before 23:59 Thursday, so please check your own score. This version has a couple of corrections since Saturday’s version.

2025 NYMBO League after 8 events (Updated 21-Oct)

The weather forecast as a result of Storm Amy means we’re going to postpone Saturday’s event at Cracoe until Saturday October 25th. All entries will be moved to this date, please get in touch if that’s a problem and we can arrange a refund or transfer. Whilst the forecast might improve we felt it better to have certainty for everyone as early as possible and minimise the risk of late cancellation. See you on the 25th!

Here’s the course map for the next event at Cracoe on 4th October (you can read all about it in the previous post)

Online entry here – discounts until Monday 29th Sept | online entry closes midnight 2nd October

Cracoe Course Map 4th October

2025 NYMBO LEAGUE AFTER 8 EVENTS

2025 NYMBO League after 8 events

FINAL EVENT – LEAGUE QUALIFIERS ** UPDATED **

2025 Final Event Qualifiers v2

Our next event, and the last of the 2025 summer series is, as in 2024, from the excellent facilities at Crocoe Village Hall.

Online entry here – discounts until Monday 29th Sept | online entry closes midnight 2nd October

Last year the event headed South, this year it will head North. 4 hours of biking on the moors between Malham and Grassington taking in fast tracks, built trail, micro nav in villages and some stiff climbs and swooping descents. With recent rain we cannot promise no mud, but many tracks are on well drained limestone. Adrian Parker has been out testing the trails – which span lowland pasture and exposed moor land (see photos from the Reece – can you name the trig point?). Bring a waterproof as even a clement day at the Hall may be blowy on the tops.

The event will be followed by the prize giving for the series and complimentary hot pies for all competitors and the opportunity to buy home-made cake for pudding to support a local environmental charity – Zero Carbon Harrogate.

Results are here (any controls with zero values have been removed) – drop Tim a note with any questions or clarifications).

Here’s Steve’s report:

I can’t remember such a prolonged period of heavy rain. We have already arranged to use this course on Saturday 11th July followed by 4 hours in Wensleydale on the 12th.

Saturday entries will be transferred to our new Swaledale event on July 11th 2026. If you can’t make it, please ask for a refund or for a free entry at another nymbo event.
Please dont ride on any of the private tracks on Barningham or Arkengarthdale moors. We only had permission to use them on Saturday so please stick to the bridleways.

What a difference 24 hours makes (as the pictures show!) . Glorious sunshine following 24 hours of continuous rain so riders could enjoy the rather damp tracks either side of the fast flowing River Swale.
As always, I thoroughly enjoyed checking out the tracks during the dry summer months as it’s such a glorious area. With controls on both sides of the valley it was a tough decision to decide when and where to cross the Swale. Its interesting to look at your routes on Maprun which were very different. Not sure about Andy’s decision to cross the bog through 19 and 24 (for no points) as it was the shortest route between 29 and 9! It can’t have been much fun.

Thanks to everyone for returning with positive comments and congratulations to the category winners.

Wine, drinks bottles and cake boxes from the DBC:

• Tom Gibbs
• Bob Cherry
• David Day
• Fiona Wright
• Angela Brand-Barker
• Karen Blackburn
• Claire Riley & Dave Cowgill
• Mike Hayward
• Sheila Pearce

OMM vouchers were presented to the 8 riders who competed in the Wye Valley event and this weekend:

• Ria Murray
• Andy Conn
• Ifor Powell
• John Rawden
• Michael Connor
• Alan Shergold
• Helen Bagley
• Mike Hayward

Thanks to the keepers for letting us use the private gravel estate tracks, DBC and their staff for making us welcome and Tim for drawing an excellent map. We realise that the minor roads weren’t obvious so we will highlight them in future. Hopefully we’ll see more riders at our final event in Cracoe on October 4th. Enter here!

What a difference 24 hours makes. Glorious sunshine following 24 hours of continuous rain so riders could enjoy the rather damp tracks either side of the fast flowing River Swale. Lots of positive comments from riders as they finished but I’ll write a full report when I’ve seen the results tomorrow. Thanks to the keepers for letting us use the private gravel estate tracks, DBC and their staff for making us welcome and Tim for drawing an excellent map. We realise that the minor roads weren’t obvious so we will highlight them in future. Hopefully we’ll see more riders at our final event in Cracoe on October 4th

Results are here (any controls with zero values have been removed) – drop Tim a note with any questions or clarifications)

Here are the start and finish locations for the Swaledale events this coming weekend – see previous posts for the course maps.

It’s not too late to enter – online entry closes midnight Thursday and the discount for entering both Saturday and Sunday can still be applied until then.

Saturday entry here | Sunday entry here

The event centre is Dales Bike Centre, Fremington, Reeth. DL11 6AW

Registration is 09:30-10:30 and starts 10:00 – 11:00 both days

Click on the picture for the PDF version of the start finish.

MapRun links: Saturday Event | Sunday Event  (nb: both events PIN protected until the event starts) QR codes below.

Swaledale Event Layout

SUNDAY MAPRUN

SATURDAY MAPRUN