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 **
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:
OMM vouchers were presented to the 8 riders who competed in the Wye Valley event and this weekend:
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
Here are the course maps for next weekend’s events in Swaledale – there may be some ‘spot the difference’ changes over the course of next week but the main areas will be unchanged.
Our usual earlybird discount ends on Monday 15th, but the discount for entering both days applies until online entries close on Thursday. Make sure to apply the discount as an “extra” to the Saturday event.
Saturday entry here | Sunday entry here
All other details in the previous post. MapRun download details and any other event info will be on the website towards the end of next week.
Swaledale SATURDAY course
Swaledale SUNDAY course
Steve Willis has been hard at work on the two 4 hour courses for our Swaledale weekend. You can ride just the Saturday or Sunday if you wish, but as camping for Friday and Saturday night is included in the entry fee, why not make a weekend of it.
The best value option is to enter before the online discount ends on Monday 15th, and make sure to add the extra discount if you’re riding both days – that will make the adult rider price just £30 for 2 events.
The event centre is
Dales Bike Centre, Fremington, Reeth. DL11 6AW
registration is 09:30-10:30 and starts 10:00 – 11:00
Day 1 – SATURDAY
You’ll be heading north on Saturday so it’s going to be a tough start and a fast finish. Thanks to the keepers on Barningham and Arkengarthdale East estates for giving us permission to use all of their private tracks. So some new tracks to add to the usual bridleways but please don’t ride them beforehand or they might withdraw their permission!!
Day 2 – SUNDAY
You’ll be heading west on Sunday so thanks to the keepers on Reeth, Grinton and Arkengarthdale West estates for letting us use their private tracks but the same as yesterday. Please stick to the bridleways if you go for a ride beforehand.
Free coffee and cake afterwards from the DBC on both days
Prizes will be presented at 3.30 on Sunday to the weekend winners plus OMM vouchers to the best of those who rode in both events – Wye Valley in May and Swaledale this weekend.
Hope to see you there!
Maps and other details to follow next week.
Fifty-seven riders took to the hills and fields around Slingsby and hopefully enjoyed the hastily arranged course that took in the stunning tracks on the Howardian Hills and some of the less used Bridleways to the North.
Full results can be found here
MapRun results including individual tracks here
Thanks must go to Steve and Andrea Foster for bravely going on a bridleway hunt for me once we had the hall booked, Dave Robertson for testing some of the controls and more bridleways out, Steve Willis for buying the excellent savoury food that you all demolished and Tim Brion for using his excellent local knowledge to source the Village Hall keys!
I enjoyed my two rides out testing more of the bridleways once FC had said that they didn’t have time to process our slightly late application for Dalby. I used some of the tracks from last year’s Terrington event but extended North and East to provide some variety, this was also driven by the temporary closure of the bridleway in the southwest corner for ash die back work. Hopefully I manage to avoid most of the nettles and brambles. Dave and I thought the bridleway between 3 and 28 should have been compulsory it was so good. Interesting the bridleway from 16 to 22 which was very indistinct was used by at least 2 riders, one the event winner Mr Conn as his attempt to get to control 12 was thwarted by being the wrong side of the hedge, a quick look at the tracks on maprun shows he wasn’t the only one.
Looking at your tracks on maprun is really useful as it helps for planning future events to see what works and what confuses you. If you want some amusement, go and look at the tracks around control 26, The Fosters and I rode this no issue east to west clearly the access from the west wasn’t as clear.
So overall winner and First M50 was Andy Conn with 490 points, Edwyn Oliver-Evans was second and First M21 with 476 points and Nuno Cerqueria was 3rd and first M40 with 452 points. First Mixed pair was CLAIRE RILEY and Dave Cowgill with 357 points, First M60 was Tim Higgins with 345 points, The battle of the M70’s was a draw with Steve Willis and David Day getting 290 points although the excuses about punctures and saddles falling of makes you realise how competitive they both are. First Lady and First W60 was Angela Brand-Barker First W50 was Jill Ellison, First W70 was Karen Blackburn and first W21 was Ellie Middlemass on her first solo event.
Finally on a more sombre note, Jeff Harris who was a regular planner of the White Rose MTBO, as well as many other events sadly passed away at the end of July, Jeff will be sorely missed, and our thoughts are with his family at this time. The last event he planned was the 2022 White Rose event at Gilling East and we used some of the same tracks this time.
Next event is the Swaledale weekend in September, more details soon.
Don’t forget that if you fancy a trip to Keswick, the next Lakes MBO is on 7th Septembert, entry here
Slingsby Control Map
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