There is still time to enter online for Saturday (until midnight Thursday). There might be enough maps for entry on the day, but please get in touch on Friday if you’re thinking of coming along.
Start and finish locations are below.
There are 2 road closures in Kirkby Malzeard village which will affect the event:
Back Lane south is currently closed to all traffic & impassable even to bikes – marked in blue
Main Street is also closed to traffic but bikes can get through on the pavements, please give way to pedestrians – marked in yellow/green
Cafe menu – suggest that you put your orders in before setting off on your ride to save time when you get back.
MapRun: course download is now ready, you can scan the QR code or by opening MapRun and follow select event / UK / North Yorkshire / NYMBO / Winter 24-25 / Kirkby Malzeard Nov 24
Start finish locations and road closuresYou can order lunch before you set off
Our next event is at Kirkby Malzeard on Saturday 9th November – online entry here
25% off entries by midnight on Monday 4th November
The 2 hour event will be based at Ivy Bank Campsite, Kirkby Malzeard, HG4 3SS. The site has parking toilets & a small cafe, start & finish are very close. Please support the venue by eating & drinking after the event.
The area is a myriad of minor roads, land rover tracks & bridleways [no need to ride the muddy ones], with controls mainly east of the start, avoiding the ground used for the Dallowgill event earlier this year. There are 2 major roads – A6108 & B6265 but the course will be planned to encourage riders to cross these at safe points.
Don’t forget to download the MapRun course before arrival (check back here for when it’s ready to download), please ask for guidance if you have not used MapRun before.
Registration: 9.00 – 10.00 Start Time between 9.30 – 10.30
Adrian’s excellent event at Cracoe was a fitting finale to NYMBOs 2024 summer league. The final league can be found at the link below, it differs slightly from that on the day as we had the planners scores wrong, but it doesn’t impact on any prizes handed out.
This years prizes were included NYMBO cycling tops for the category winners; Dales Biking Centre vouchers and Yorkshire Dales Brewery Beer for the runners up.
If you rode 4 events or more this season then you quality for a NYMBO water bottle – please collect one at the your event if you didn’t get one at Cracoe!If you were lucky enough to receive a DBC voucher, please fill it in as follows (left blank dueto an adminerror😀):
To – Nymbo champion
From – S Willis or T Evans
Value – 2for1 Bunkhouse voucher
I hope you all enjoyed the series and numbers are starting to rise, I was worried about all the 4 hour events but it has allowed us to use better areas. Please spread the word about our events and how welcoming we all are (and if we aren’t please tell us!!).
I think the refreshments after the event seems to be encouraging you all to stay behind and chat and there is rarely any left over which is a good sign and encourages early starts.
Maprun seems to be working well for most of you. It makes life much easier for the planner and there are no controls to collect or get stolen, we also don’t seem to suffer as much from incorrect placement, if you are struggling with map run let us know we can set up short courses from your house or there are plenty of courses out there to try out.
Similarly if there is anything you would like to see or anything that annoys you let us know you may not be the only one and it may be something we hadn’t considered. As an example we think there may be an issue with some phones going to sleep after 30 minutes so we will try and avoid long legs that might take longer.
Thanks to all this years planners, Tony Thornley, John Dixon , David Day, Conrad and Jill Ellison, Steve Willis and Adrian Parker. Also thanks to Dave Robertson for all the comms and maintaining the website, Steve Willis for sorting the prizes and money, John Dixon for the league results, our sponsors Yorkshire Dales Brewery and Dales Bike Centre and all of you for entering and riding our events.
I look forward to seeing you at some the 4 winter events the first of which is the 9th November at Kirkby Malzeard.
We have 5 events with planners for next year but if you fancy having a go at planning and have an area in mind please talk to Steve or myself at an event or drop an email. You will be given lots of help and advice, it would be nice to go back to the Wolds.
Full 2024 league round-up with the prize winners to follow shortly. Thanks to Adrian for an excellent course, here’s his report:
46 riders and 45 finishers enjoyed(hopefully) the 4 hour event from Cracoe Village Hall. For all but the latest finishers the weather held out and there was the satisfaction of being warm and fed in the village hall at the series prize giving while the rain lashed down outside.
We had a number of debates before the event about the timings for it – originally starting at 3 hours and then toying with 3.45 hours (radical I know!) before settling on 4 hours. With the need to commit to the large loop over Barden Moor and Flasby Fell to score high we felt a shorter length event would lead to lots of late returns. We could have left in the escape route/more route choice by keeping the Skipton to Grassington road in bounds, but the road is fast, narrow, winding and undulating and for safety reasons we wanted to keep riders off it where possible. Hopefully the fast gravel tracks on Barden Moor were enjoyed by all those riders directed by the map in that direction. It was ridden both ways on the day. I rode it both ways during planning – and it is good blast either way.
I think the timing worked well – the course was cleared with a few minutes to spare by a couple of riders – congratulations to Andy Gregg who came in first and to Mike Hayward. Concerns that the Barden/Flasby loop would take too long were generally unfounded. The “Ikley Posse” even had time for a café stop in Embsay!
Given the constraints of the map the idea was to contrast the need for speed on the loop and the need to beast it over Flasby Fell (which has its unique delights whichever way you tackle it) with quick decision making and detailed map work around the villages where there was greater route choice and trail density. To clear required three distinct loops which also added planning challenge – unlike in some terrain you could not simply set off clockwise or anticlockwise and hope for the best.
Many thanks for Tim Evans’ help with the map preparation and Maprun plots – his proficiency filling in my technical deficiencies. Apologies that on the Maprun file we inadvertently switched controls 5 (5 points) and 11 (15 points). The physical map is the definitive version for the event and there will need to be a manual adjustment to scores. Somehow we also missed off the condition of the track between points 19 and 18 – which is by no means a track as those of you who “enjoyed” it yesterday will now know! We should also have included a bit more detail at the Southern edge of the map in Embsay so that it was clearer that Brackenley Lane was a turn off the road out of Embsay – which would have saved a number of riders a diversion to the Skipton bypass. Easily done – I did the same whilst planning. We had a number of riders continuing down the track at the East end of Barden Moor missing the bridleway turnoff. If you did then you paid the penalty of the steep cut back up the road to get to point 15 – it was slower. The pink dashed marking of the boundary of the National Park on the map caused a bit of confusion around here as at least one rider rode down it to point 24 – not a bridleway of course – but hard to distinguish on the move.
When we eventually got in to the Village Hall (apologies – the caretaker did not arrive to let us in and we then realised we had conducted the booking via email and had not been given contact details – and it required a bit of research and luck to get them – the hall has a surprisingly limited digital footprint) the venue suited the event well – especially as there was the potential to be cold and/or wet in October. We now have a full set of contact numbers – which means that if we use it again the experience should be smoother. Post race refreshment seemed to go down well – and thanks from Jemima for donations (£39.10) for cakes towards the work of Zero Carbon Harrogate – the charity working towards a Net Zero future.
In discussions after the event we can see the potential for future events from Cracoe Village Hall – potentially next year with the hall towards the bottom of the map and heading North, and at a further remove shifting a bit East and including the Bolton Abbey/Burnsall road which then permits a circuit of Barden Moor.
The MapRun download is now ready, please do this before you leave home to avoid relying on a mobile signal in the Dales. It’s at the QR code below or follow this path in MapRun: Select event | UK | north yorkshire | nymbo | summer 24 | cracoe
Car parking is at the Village Hall and there should be plenty for all, but please take car when arriving and leaving tro avoid other competitors.
Prize Giving & refreshments afterwards – there will be tea, coffee and juice plus a variety of savoury items (like sausage rolls & scones). Please let us know if you have any dietary/allergy requirements you’d like us to take into account.
It’s our next event on 12th October and it’s the final event of the summer season (before the winter series starts in November). There will be a prize presentation immediately afterwards for the series class winners (UPDATED league positions here – NYMBO League 7 events v2)
Cracoe is not in Poland – it is in fact in the Yorkshire Dales – to the South West of Grassington. This classy event centre in the village hall is a new venue for NYMBO and allows the event to take in Barden/Embsay Moor and Flasby Fell to the South which have not been in our event areas recently (ever?).
The event will feature a variety of terrain and surfaces, from minor roads, what should still be firm going in pasture, some cracking moorland tracks and a bit of proper (easy) orienteering navigation
There will be loops to suit all tastes with wide open moorland contrasting with the intricate network of rights of way around Cracoe and Hetton. Expect some interesting climbs and swooping descents, and 4 hours to enjoy it all in.
Registration – 9.15 – 10.15 Starts – 9.30 – 10.30
MapRun download an other event details will be posted on the website next week. Here’s the course map:
Here are the control maps and the Steve’s report from the Wensleydale weekend. On the day results are in the previous posts (Tim is working through some rider queries so the final results will be posted here shortly).
Thanks to Steve Willis for planning an excellent weekend, so good that the 2025 event is already in the diary for 20th & 21st September at the Dales Bike Centre in Swaledale! Mark your calendars!
On the Saturday event over 40 riders enjoyed the dry tracks west of Askrigg but noticed that it was slightly breezy. By Sunday it was dull and damp but not as windy for the 42 riders today with plenty of route choice on the north and south sides of this beautiful valley.
Thanks to the landowners and keepers for allowing us to use their private tracks. (You are welcome to use them at any time as long as you remember to close all of the gates and turn back if you encounter a shooting party between September and January).
Andy Conn took it easy today so Martin Edwards scored the most points but as he hadn’t ridden on Saturday, the overall winner was:
Ifor Powell (M50) with 830 points.
The other prizewinners were:
Paul Dobson M60 733
Carmen Elphick W040/50 557
Helen Bagley W60/70 430
Mixed Claire Riley & David Cowgill 640
Mike Hayward (Ebike) 790
Thanks to:
Heather Hodgson at Askrigg Camping for a perfect event centre (and interesting environmentally friendly toilets)
The Bake Well Cafe for their delicious refreshments
Rob Wiltshire & the Yorkshire Dales Brewery for their hospitality.
Tim Evans for another excellent map
Details for Cracoe on October 12th for our final event of the season willbe availabe later this week.
Here are Sundays basic results – you can find the full results and tracks on MapRun and these will be posted here when Tim has tidied up the corrections. Sorry for the delay getting these posted.
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