We’ve already got decent numbers for next Monday, but we can always welcome a few more riders so the online entry deadline has been extended to Saturday.

Enter here (and if you do it by midnight Wednesday there’s 25% off the entry price)

Start finish picture is below and all drivers need to take care entering and leaving the village hall to make sure it is clear of riders starting and finishing please park carefully in the car park.

Maprun now up for downloading, it’s in the usual place or use QR code below to find it.

Parking: The Village Hall has a reasonably large car park but if this is full, the playing field can be used as an overflow parking. If needing to park on the field, please try to keep to the edge of the field adjacent to the tennis court fence, or along the top edge of the field and off the football pitch itself.

It’s 18 days until our Bank Holiday Monday event in the Howardian Hills (26th August), so now is agood time to study the course map and get your online entry in!

Tim has planned a interesting course for you in the Howardian Hills starting from the Village Hall in Terrington. He has cycled all the off road roads you will need to use and some you won’t know have to! The riding was mostly really good with only two short sections that you may need to push and these are clearly marked. As there is no White Rose foot event this year we are going for a normal morning start of 09:30-10:30 but if you struggle getting there for then then let us know and we can allow late starts .

Parking at Terrington Village Hall should be straightforward for all, and a 3 hour event should mean everyone finishes in time to beat any holiday traffic.

Here’s the course map pdf  202408 – Terrington Start

The miserable weather on Sunday gave Tim a chance to finalise the results from the last 2 events:

Dallowgill results

Kildale results

And it gave John the chance to sort out the league after 4 events too:

NYMBO League 4 events (PDF)

NYMBO League 24 after 4 events (EXCEL)

UPDATED RESULTS AND REPORT (10-Jul)

Thanks to all the riders who came along to our July event at Dallowgill

updated results Dallowgill results rev2 table here, and you can check out the MapRun routes for every rider here

Dallowgill planner’s comments

In the early 20^th century Leeds Corporation had a plan to build a reservoir in the steep sided valley of South Gill Beck [immediately south of the event centre]; fortunately this never came to fruition or the Dallowgill bike O may have looked different!

We were grateful to the Delta Trust Academy for the excellent facilities at the outdoor education centre, originally built as Dallowgill School and to Lottie’s Catering – normally found at Hell Wath football field, Ripon. If you did not take up the £2.50 voucher available to all riders you missed a treat!

A geek at the map before the event would have identified the possibility of the W loop into Nidderdale with a teaser of will it go into the Ashfold Side mining valley? [No controls there this time]. Once into Nidderdale the BW E of Gouthwaite reservoir would have to be completed. All but 3 riders who took this option sensibly went down the BW into Bouthwaite & up the tarmac N & E of Pateley Bridge. Apologies for those who took the clockwise route for not indicating on the map the severity of the drainage channels across the steep road down NW from #18. Those who went across the moors were rewarded with fantastic views in all directions thanks to the weather forecast being much better that indicated. Commiserations to Dave Goulding who lost his map somewhere near #16 & had to use googlemaps to find his way back to the finish, which he managed with seconds to spare.

The route through the fields from #5 to #20 was grassy & gated, the wise riders avoided #5 & just dipped in & out from the road to #20.There were enough controls E of the start to make decisions tricky on what to leave out & what order to choose. I made a late map correction to the BW E of #13 based on info received about height of vegetation but then some kind person slashed it down before our event so all was well.

Overall winner with 487 was M40 Mark Chryssanthou, 2^nd was M50 Peter Pawlik on 436 only just ahead of M60 Tony Brand Barker on 434. Angela BB was 1^st lady with 403 ahead of Claire Riley in the MIX50 class on 398, Jemima Parker & Jo Anderson W50 next on 285. Only 1 GEN team, Michael & Daisy scored 346 but could not stay as Daisy had to go to work [it’s a hard life!] Unusually there was an Ebike tie – Keith Foster & Stephen Morriss [the latter treating his wife to a birthday weekend away in the campervan, no expense spared] scored 395. Based on points/km the most cunning rider was Steve Willis who achieved 9.5, ladies category had Angela at 8.67 & Jemima at 8.66; look & learn from their routes.

David Day

20240706-dallowgillc.pdf

There is still time to enter online for this Saturday’s event at Dallowgill – enter here

The MapRun course is now ready – you can use the QR code or find it manually by choosing:

Select event | UK | North Yorkshire | NYMBO | Summer 2024 | Dallowgill controls

Start & Finish locations below; full course map in the previous post

Car park is opposite the hostel on hardstanding & grass, please leave track through to access the finish; start is opposite church nearby.

Registration – 9.15 – 10.15 Starts – 9.30 – 10.30

Just under two weeks until the next NYMBO event at Dallowgill, planned by David Day and using a new event centre.

Online entry for 6th July (closes Thursday July 4th)

You’ll get 25% off if you’ve entered by 1st July, and every entry will get a free food voucher to use at the onsite caterer that David has organised.

Event centre: Dallowgill Outdoor Centre, HG4 3RB; (Grid ref: 196719 near Knott Farm)

it’s a posh hostel mostly used for schools during the week so we have sole use on the day of the event. Car parking is on hardstanding adjacent to the centre, please park tidily; registration & toilets are inside the building, a caterer will be attending after finishing [bacon sandwiches & cake items] – please bring cash if you wish to partake.

The area is a good mixture of land rover tracks across the moors with fine views if you have the time to look, a myriad of minor roads, some tricky BWs including a deep ford with a cobbly bottom for bravehearts [marked on the map] & an opportunity to hone those hill climbing muscles!

Mobile signal is poor at the centre so the landline number will be on the map for emergencies,  however  there is wifi in the building. Make sure that you download the MapRun course before arrival, please ask for guidance if you have not used MapRun before.

The NYMBO League after 2 events is here – NYMBO League 24 after 2 events – we’ll have an update including Kildale shortly (thanks John Dixon for sorting this out).

The BMBO National Championship weekend is on the 22/23 June is the Hope Valley, details of that are on the BMBO website

Our next NYMBO event is on 6 July – we have a new venue for this Nidderdale event – Dallowgill Outdoor Centre, HG4 3RB; it’s a posh hostel mostly used for schools during the week so we have sole use on the day of the event. Car parking is on hardstanding adjacent to the centre, please park tidily; registration & toilets are inside the building, a caterer will be attending after finishing [bacon sandwiches & cake items] – please bring cash if you wish to partake.

The area is a good mixture of land rover tracks across the moors with fine views if you have the time to look, a myriad of minor roads, some tricky BWs including a deep ford with a cobbly bottom for bravehearts [marked on the map] & an opportunity to hone those hill climbing muscles!

Mobile signal is poor at the centre so the landline number will be on the map for emergencies,  however  there is wifi in the building. Make sure that you download the MapRun course before arrival, please ask for guidance if you have not used MapRun before.

The August Bank Holiday Monday event is likely to be at Terrington in the Howardian Hills (following the cancellation of the Ebor White Rose weekend) – details to be confirmed soon.

And finally, a quick note on our September weekend of events on 14/15 September. If you would like to camp at that event so you can easily ride in both events, then there’s no need to book in advance – we’ll just get a note of people who want to camp when we get entires and submit them to the campsite in one go.

Provisional results here  (Tim is sorting out the riders with MapRun issues and the final results will be ready in the next couple of days)

Thank you for riding yesterday and for the comments Jill and I received.  We tend to plan 3 hour events but this time, for some unknown reason, I thought it would be a good idea to use the single track over Hograh Moor and so opening up a larger event area.

As for all planners, the aim is to get the lead riders to just scrape through in the time allowance and having to go for a completely isolated 5 pointer to clear up  Tom G managed to clear up in 3 hours 59 and had to go for the nasty #3 (5 pointer) up the track from Battersby road bend.  Well done.

We’re glad that there were some high scorers and everyone seemed to enjoy the tracks both north and south of Kildale.

We enjoyed planning the route and the tracks were dry during the planning stage (honest !).  We’ve had a deluge over the last couple of weeks making the riding pretty tricky in places.

A big thank you to Tony Thonley for preparing the map.  I’m sure you agree that it was excellent quality.  Finally, a big thank you to Tim for his support and for sorting out MapRun.

Hope to see you soon.  Nidderdale next. (enter online here)

Jill and Conrad Ellison

A few hours left for online entry

MapRun download is now ready, use the QR code below or select event manually in the app. Please download before you leave home for the event.

Start & finish locations are shown in the photo, and parking is on a the verges near the Village Hall.

There a 25% discount on your entry for our next event if you enter before 27th May – you can enter online here.

Conrad has been working hard to plan the Kildale event on Saturday 1st June – there will be some more event details available in the next few days. At the time of writing (Wednesday) it’s absolutely chucking it down, so lets hope the tracks have dried out a bit in ten days time!

Date – Saturday 1st June
Venue – Kildale Village Hall
Duration – 4 hours
registration – 0915 – 1015| start – 0930 – 1030

The blank course map is ready for you to see the area you’ll be riding. Click on the image for the fullsize version (please put any comments below if you feel the resolution isn’t high enough and I can post a bigger file version).

1st June Kildale