34 riders, a beautiful evening, lovely countryside and England won – perfect
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Harewood MBO event
Only 10 pre-entries for Tuesday evening but the event is still on. The England v Ukraine match doesn’t kick off until 8pm so you can watch it in the New Inn after your ride. Please enter online tonight (Sunday) or reply to this post if you still want to reserve a map.
Swaledale Permanent MBO Course
There is a brand new course available in Swaledale so check out the web site http://www.dalesbikecentre.co.uk/ for more details
5 or 3 hour options available so check in at Grinton and go for it
Ingleton MBO results
Ingleton Results (spreadsheet) | results with splits
It was great to ride a new area and extend the OvergroundUnderground programme. The tracks were very dry despite the recent rain which held off on Saturday. There were 3 very distinctive areas – the quiet lanes around Bentham, the superb singletracks around Austwick and the tough bridleways around Ingleborough and Whernside. I didn’t think anyone would clear up but Andy Conn nearly did!! It was a difficult course to get right as you had to commit yourself to going to Dentdale early on and it’s a long way back. You also needed to decide whether to get the easy points around Bentham and Austwick first or leave them until the end. Some riders got it right and some got it badly wrong
I had 4 great planning rides – the first one after theAGMin December which included the new Pennine Bridleway – and, judging by your comments, you all enjoyed the countryside. Unfortunately there were only 72 riders so we only just broke event. As we normally get about 130 riders further east I will have to consider whether we come back to Ingleton next year – or ask XCC if they want to plan it as 6 of the controls were inCumbria!!
Thanks to Jens for another excellent map, the helpers for making everything run smoothly and the volunteers who collected all the controls. The school made a great event centre despite the low toilets and not being able to park on the field.
Congratulations to the category winners especially Andy Conn who scored an incredible 489 points – 19 ahead of Andrew Windrum and 20 more than Graham Fielding (3rd overall and M50 winner). Ray Morris won M60 (and 4th overall) with 440 points; Helen Jackson & Paul Vousden won X21 with 395 points (and 7th overall) matching Simon Grainger’s winning M21 score; Sheila Pierce outscored the other women to win W40 with 365 points; James & Richard took advantage of the Vesty’s absence to win the Generation class with 350 points; and Karen & Steve pipped Chris & Ralph by 20 points in X50. John Dixon is adding your points to the league and I’ll post it on the web sites in the next couple of days.
There were only 3 riders who opted for the 2 hour course so it’s obviously not working. I have decided to scrap both Short Course Leagues with immediate effect and replace it with a Novice (2 hour) option which will be half price. I will alter the NYMBO and NEMBOS fliers this week.
There are 2 more events this month so please enter online asap or send me an email.
Saturday 16th June Kildale
4 hour NEMBOS league event –further south than last year so more stunning moorland, a few private estate tracks and an old railway line
Tuesday 19th June New Inn, Eccup (NOT Wednesday as previously advertised)
2 hour NYMBO Summer evening Score event around Harewood & Wharfedale
The next NYMBO League event is at Silton & BoltbyForeston Saturday 14th July
Hope to see you at another event soon.
Steve Willis
PS Don’t forget that all events (3 hours of longer) that use Sportident are included in the BMBO National Rankings with your best 10 scores to count
PPS I am still planning the Polaris is in the Yorkshire Dales on Saturday/Sunday 22nd/23rd September and there will be 5 options – 7&5 hours with overnight camp, 5&4 hours without overnight camp, 4 hours on Saturday or 3 hours on Sunday, 40/20k fixed routes on Saturday and 30/15k fixed routes on Sunday. Plenty of choice for all abilities so why not enter?
Ingleton MBO Update
Teesdale Results
Provisional results here Teesdale
Report to follow tomorrow but congratulations to Andy Conn who visited all 30 controls with 3 minutes to spare and thanks to all of the helpers who made this event happen
Results also here http://www.bmbo.org.uk/results/
Hudswell MBO Results
Thanks to the 4 riders that turned up to enjoy the tracks around Richmond. Hudswell results We were using the spare maps from the event that was cancelled last winter due to the snow. No extra expense for NYMBO and a good excuse to ride my local tracks again to check the controls but very disappointed with the numbers. If they don’t pick up this summer there won’t be a NYMBO summer evening series in 2013.
Our next evening event is on a Tuesday (19th June) at the New Inn, Eccup and it is part of the Bike week so hopefully Neil Reed will get more riders to appreciate his course.
The next NEMBOS event is this Saturday at Grassholme Reservoir near Middleton on Tees. We have got 45 pre-entries and there are 15 spare maps so please email if you want to reserve one.
The next NYMBO league event is at Ingleton on Saturday 2nd June. It is a 5 hour event and part of the OvergroundUnderground weekend so hope to see you there.
NYMBO League after 3 events
Congratulations to Mike Nayler – M50 and overall leader
Thanks to John Dixon for compiling the league
Updated Pickering Results
Andrew Windrum has declared himself non-competitive as he saw the map beforehand to plan the MTBO courses. Thanks, Andrew – but I doubt you would have scored many less if you hadn’t seen the map in advance.
Congratulations to Conrad Ellison for winning overall and to all riders who have now scored more points in the league than expected. There have been a few small changes so here are the updated results – as an XL file without splits. Pickering Results
Pickering Forest Update
Pickering Forest aka Cropton & Newtondale Forests
We have got 20 entries for the MTBO event on Saturday morning and 100 entries for the Score event in the afternoon which is excellent. There will be a few spare maps for entries on the day as usual – 10 in the morning and 30 in the afternoon. Parking is on the forest road north of Keldy Cabins so please follow the signs and don’t park around the cabins. Registration is in the excellent cafe which will be selling refreshments all day and there is also a bike wash and the Muddybums stall selling sports clothing. Dave Evans has planned an excellent course so let’s hope the forecast is correct and the tracks stay dry. Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday


