The blank map without controls for Saturday’s 4 hour event at Lofthouse is now available – worth checking out the tracks and the callout box for the bit that goes off the map!

VENUE GR 102 734 Lofthouse Memorial Hall, Thrope Lane HG3 5RZ

FACILITIES Parking next to the cricket field (100736) 300m NW of the hall

REGISTER 10.30 – 11.45 STARTS 11.00 – 12.00

FEES SENIORS £12.00 JUNIORS/STUDENTS £6.00

You can enter online here (by Wednesday night please)

18 April 2015 Nidderdale Blank Map

Here’s the blank map for the first event of the 2015 League, taking place on Saturday 28th March. Don’t forget there’s an MTBO earlier in the day.

MTBO (click here for online entry)

VENUE GR 753 473 FC car park, 1 mile SW of the A1079 at Barmby Moor

COURSE 4-6km SPRINT EVENT with a 20-30 minute winning time
TERRAIN A small flat forestry plantation with an intricate path network

REGISTER 8.30 – 9.15
START 9.00 – 9.30

MBO (click here for online entry)

VENUE GR 964 707 Weaverthorpe Village Hall YO17 8EX

10 miles east of Malton and 4 miles south of the A64 at Sherburn. Parking is at Sleightholme’s Yard (951702) in Helperthorpe which is 1km east of the Start & Finish at Weaverthorpe Village Hall.

FACILITIES Registration, toilets and refreshments in the village hall
COURSES 3 hour SCORE event (with a 2 hour option for NOVICES)

REGISTER 11.30 – 12.45 STARTS 12.00 – 13.00

Map…. updated 26 March with minor clarifications

UPDATED – 2015 Yorkshire Wolds 40000 Working Drawing without Controls 22nd March 2015

It’s the final Treasure Hunt of the winter season this Saturday (the 21st) at the Scotts Arms, Sicklinghall – it’s a great area, with the option of superb pub lunch at the end.

REGISTER 9.15 -10.15 STARTS 9.30 – 10.30

If you’d like to come along, please enter at bmbo.org.uk ; or use the webform to let us know you’ll be coming.

Sicklinghall map without controls

Steve Roberts and Karen Clark have been hard at work planning the first league event in the Yorkshire Wolds on March 28th. Here’s a couple of pictures from last week to show just how changeable the conditions can be, one from Tuesday the other from Saturday. In 2013, we had to cancel the Pocklington event because of the cold weather, lets hope that the conditions will be fine this year!

Here’s the map for this Saturday’s event at Biggin. Any changes due to the weather will be updated here on Friday night.

Here’s the map for Saturday’s event in Ripon. Register 0915 – 1015; starts 0930 – 1030. The course looks like a really interesting challenge, and you’ll need an offroad bike for at least 6 of the controls.

2014 Ripon TH Working Drawing without Controls 7th December

Here’s the area map for Saturday’s treasure hunt – 40 riders entered but there will be 10 spare maps for entries on the day. Forecast looks overcast with some early mist. Plenty of lane based treasure hunt questions, but the course makes use of most of the available bridleways – so expect patches of soft ground in places!

Hovingham Black 15 November 2014

This is the fourth year we’ve asked you to vote on your favourite league event – for the last two years it’s been Dalby Forest, with Swaledale taking the top spot in 2011. Which will be favourite this year? Poll will stay open until the 9th November.

Here’s the Grewelthorpe map….

The event centre is at Grewelthorpe Village Hall (GR 231 761 Grewelthorpe Village Hall HG4 3BT West of the A6108, 6 miles NW of Ripon and 3 miles S of Masham)

Parking: Newholme Farm Caravan Park on the Ripon Road into Grewelthorpe (GR 233 758 – Newholme Farm HG4 3DR – 500m S of the village hall.) Please ride to Registration which opens at 9.30 so that you are ready to Start between 10 and 11am.

Here are a few comments from David Day (Course Planner)

Yet another new venue this year – the former Grewelthorpe Methodist Chapel recently opened as a village hall (see website, there is lots going on here). The building includes a community café which will serve food and drinks before and after the event – please support this venture.
The area consists of a complex network of quiet roads, bridleways through farmland and Land Rover tracks on the grouse moors west of the event centre. The purple heather is particularly beautiful at this time of year if riders have time to look around.
At the time of writing there has been so little rainfall that tracks are as fast as they will ever be (cue signal for non-stop rain from now!) There is a ford on the River Laver with no accompanying footbridge which I have never succeeded in cycling through (marked on the map) but alternative routes do exist.

Prizegiving will take place at 3.30 so please stay to applaud the leading riders in both the BMBO and NYMBO Leagues.
Prizes have again been kindly sponsored by Richardson’s of Scarborough and the Yorkshire Dales Brewing Company with engraving by Keith James Jewellers of Richmond – and NYMBO will be providing the highly valued t-shirts as well as a few extra prizes.

Grewelthorpe Map without Controls