Maps without controls are now available for next weekend – click on the images below:

The venue for the weekend is New Inn, Cropton Village, YO18 8HH (GR 756 890), 2 miles north of the A170 at Wrelton = 4 miles NW of Pickering. Parking, Camping, Registration, refreshments and toilets at the New Inn.

Saturday – Cropton Forest MTBO
6-8km MEDIUM MBO EVENT with a 40-50 minute winning time

REGISTER 8.30 – 9.30
STARTS 9.00 – 10.00 2km ride from Registration
Online entry by Wednesday 9th July

Saturday – Cropton Forest – 3 hour SCORE event (with a 2 hour option for NOVICES)

REGISTER 11.30 – 12.45
STARTS 12.00 – 13.00
Online entry by Wednesday 9th July

Sunday – Rosedale and Farndale – 4 hour SCORE event (with a 2 hour option for NOVICES)

REGISTER 10.30 – 11.45
STARTS 11.00 – 12.00
Online entry by Wednesday 9th July

The map without controls is now available for next weekend – click on the image below:

VENUE: Norwood Social Hall, Bland Hill, Norwood, Harrogate HG3 1TB [GR206532]

The hall is situated just off the B6451 (Farnley to Summerbridge road) – 2 miles south of the A59 at Menwith Hill. Parking is restricted with only enough spaces for 40 cars at the hall so late arrivals will be parking on the road verge up to 500m from the hall.

REGISTER 11.30 – 12.45 STARTS 12.00 – 13.00

FEES SENIORS £12.00 JUNIORS/STUDENTS £6.00

ONLINE ENTRY – deduct £1.00

Own SI card – deduct £1

The flier for the Ripon Le Tour Treasure Hunt can be found here 

It’s on Sunday 6th July, starting at Ripon Market Place, and the course is a 2 hour Bike Orienteering Score event

REGISTER 9.15 -10.15 STARTS 9.30 – 10.30

FEES ADULTS – £5.00 JUNIORS – £3.00 (Save £1 by entering online)

Ripon Market Place is a spectator hub for Le Tour with a big screen, why not make a day of it and watch Day 2 of Le Tour after the event.

The next event is a four hour event around Ingleborough (not over it!) . The map without controls is at the end of this post.

Fliers in the events section, online entry using the link above. Please enter online by Thursday

Brief details:
VENUE GR 695726
Ingleton Middle School LA6 3BU Just 800m off the A65 at Ingleton

FACILITIES Registration, toilets and refreshments in the hall Season Cakes Bakery open all day

COURSES 4 hour SCORE event (with a 2 hour option for NOVICES) Normal kites with SportIdent electronic punching

TERRAIN A variety of excellent bridleways and minor roads around Ingleborough, Ribblesdale and lanes south of the A65

REGISTER 10.30 – 11.45 STARTS 11.00 – 12.00

Here’s the map without controls for next weekend for you to peruse. At least it should be here, lets hope it’s worked properly unlike last month.

Every year we like to support the hard work of the Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team. One of their fundraising events is a half marathon – here’s some information from Tony Heap if you want to take part. Links to fliers included at the end.

Just to let you and your fellow bikers know that this years Ravenscar Coastal Half Marathon organised by the Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team is Sunday 11th May 2014, in the past we have had a number of runners from the wider umbrella of clubs entering the event on a sporadic bases which has been a great support, so I have attached the entry form and poster, everything same as last year (still £10 pre entry), you may be interested to know the local Mountain Rescue team Organises this event as a fundraisers so it’s a relaxed low key affair, but it might be of interest to your bikers as something different. It certainly not a fell race but as the height gain and loss over the 13.1miles is 1100 it’s a nice undulating run mainly on coastal footpaths, so some of your bikers may fancy a different challenge that will work some different muscles and all the £10 goes straight to the Mountain Rescue Team.

It was our busiest callout year last year, that has 2 impacts on the Team, firstly we spend more money and 2nd we lost a lot of fundraising events actually doing callouts, so this fixture really help the team, so it would be really great if you could pass on to your runners or anyone you know who may be interested, we are good at search and rescue and quite a few mountain bikers, but complete novices at advertising so any help appreciated in spreading the word on the event which is in its 4th year but lacking in numbers (100 to 130 of last few years), so even just putting up the poster at one of your events would be a great help.

Thank you

Tony

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Poster – RCHM 2014

Conrad and Jill have been hard at work planning the May event, here’s and update from them:

Jill and I have enjoying planning the event.  We’ve hired Ingleby Greenhow village hall for the event centre so it’s a guaranteed downhill finish.  We’ve put most of the Great Broughton to Chop Gate road (B1257) as out of bounds and all but one of the checkpoints is in the NYM National Park.

View of the Wainstones from Broughton Bank

It’s given us chance to ride and walk bridleways we haven’t visited in ages over the likes of Urra and Cold Moor.  Last weekend we did our last recce and the tracks were bone dry (will it last ?!!).

View from Urra Moor looking west towards Cold Moor and Cringle Moor

For those of you who can remember Richard Martin planned an event from Lordstones at the top of Carlton Bank a few years ago.  The event will cover a similar area except we’re not going as far to the west as Richard did and covering a bit more to the east over Baysdale Moor.
Happy riding.
Jill and Conrad

Wheldrake:

http://nymbo.mountainbikeorienteering.org.uk/2014/02-Wheldrake/

Bishopswood:

http://nymbo.mountainbikeorienteering.org.uk/2014/02-Bishopwood/

http://nymbo.org.uk/results/

You’ll find the results here:

http://nymbo.mountainbikeorienteering.org.uk/2014/01-WhiteHorse/

A great day with plenty of dry tracks, despite the strong headwind! Full report to follow shortly.