Here’s the blank course map for the Malham event next weekend.

Online entry is here (closes midnight Thursday 26th)

It’s a four hour event, with registration from 09.00-10.15 and starts from 09.30-10.30.

Entry includes your ticket for the Malham Show, which you can enjoy after your ride!

Remember, there’s no NYMBO event on the Bank Holiday Monday this year, so Malham offers a great opportunity to ride in the Yorkshire Dales.

Our next event is on the Bank Holiday Weekend, and is back at the Malham Show, as usual your entry fee into this event also includes entry into the show after your ride.

Online entry is here and is open until midnight Thursday 26th – the blank course map should be available on the website this weekend.

Sadly, this year it’s not been possible to also run an event on the Bank Holiday Monday as part of the Ebor White Rose weekend.

There are two more events for this years NYMBO league – the four our event in Fremington on Sunday Septmber 12th; and at Kildale on Saturday October 2nd.

Updated flier is here

Thanks to Neil and Graham for their hard work in putting on the Grantley event, which following the pandemic delays finally went ahead on a hot July day. Their race report is below.

The results from the event are here; and the updated league after three events is here – thanks to John Dixon for managing the league.

Next events: The next NYMBO events are scheduled for the August Bank Holiday weekend, at Malham on the Saturday and the Ebor White Rose on the Monday. We’ll confirm both those events just as soon as we have details available.

Grantley 17th July 2021 – Race Report

It was great to see such a good turnout given the blistering hot weather and the need to pre enter online.

This event was originally scheduled to take place in May 2020 from Sawley Village Hall but was obviously cancelled due to the pandemic. As we were unable to rebook Sawley we decided to move the event centre to Grantley which we last used in 2017.

Graham and I had hoped to plan a course with a variety of route choice and terrain. We also hoped that given the right conditions and riders it may have been possible to clear up. In that respect thanks to overall winner Andy Conn who almost proved us right, by visiting 27 of the 30 controls and finishing with 482 points. Congratulations also to the other category winners  Harry Kingston, ( M21 – 459 points), Paul Dobson (M60 – 360 points), John Dixon (M70 – 375 points), Naomi Malkin (W21 – 250 points), Carmen Elphick (W40 – 210 points) , Jill Ellison (W50 – 305 points) and Angela Brand-Barker (W60 – 265 points).

Despite our initial fears on seeing the majority of rider head north from the start, thereafter it appears there was a wide variety of route choices. Despite the heat, a few mechanicals and nettle / bramble scars it appears most of you enjoyed your rides and thanks for the positive comments.

It was good to see some new faces and hope you make to the next events and spread the word.  

Thanks to Dave Robertson for web support, Steve Willis for running the registration and Tim Evans who eventually arrived to oversee the download !

Also many thanks to Shelia Pearce, John Dixon and Tim Evans for volunteering to collect controls along with Graham and myself.    

Apologies for anyone I may have missed

Best Wishes

Neil Reed & Graham Tibbot (Planners)

The results from today’s hot event at Grantley can be found here

Hope everyone enjoyed their ride and has recovered, full report to follow.

Here’s the course map for the Grantley event next weekend.

Online entry is here.

It’s just under two weeks until our next event on Saturday July 17th. It’s a four hour event with the event centre at Grantley Village Hall.

Online Entry Saturday 17th (closes midnight Wednesday 14th)

We’ve kept event prices low this year:
Seniors £10;
Juniors, Students, Novices: £5
Own SI card – deduct £1

Remember it’s online entry only no entry on the day – blank course map will be available next weekend.

Event Centre: Grantley Village Hall – 4 miles west of Ripon HG4 3PJ (GR 233699)
Duration: 4 hours
Registration: 0915 – 1015
Start Time: 0930- 1030

The event will use the SI timing system and the controls will be SIAC enabled. If you need a dibber, these will be available at registration in the hall. .

Car Parking is in the school opposite Grantley Village Hall (for approx 20 vehicles). Additional car parking is available in a field approx 500m west along Skelding Lane (first turn L after the village hall then turn right after the second house into the field-  this will be signposted).

Tea, coffee, juice and biscuits will be available. There is also a pub next door (Grantley Arms) which according to their website should be open.

Bearing in mind this event was originally scheduled for 2020 the area is very similar to the  Markington event held in May 2021. As such it is undulating terrain with a good mix of singletrack,  tracks and roads and plenty of route choice for all.

As usual we will be asking for volunteers to collect the controls after the event – any volunteers are always much appreciated !

Neil Reed & Graham Tibbot

Here are the league details after our first two events – thanks to John Dixon for sorting this out.

	NYMBO League 2021	Events entered	QUALIFYING SCORE	Event 1 2hrs Markington 22 May	Event 2 3hrs Pool 12 June
	NAME		planner:	D DAY	T THORNTON
CLASS	YOUTH < 18
Y18	ben collins	1	85.7	85.7
Y18	jake powell	1	71.6		71.6
	GENERATION (1 < 18 & 1 > 18)
GEN	jeffrey & laura barber	1	76.0	76
GEN	alistair + martyn broadest	1	5.8	5.8
	MALE 18 – 40
M21	ian nixon	2	200.0	100	100
M21	chris dodd	2	165.6	77.2	88.4
M21	ian furlong	1	98.6		98.6
M21	jack page	1	66.5		66.5
M21	harry dillon	1	5.4		5.4
	FEMALE 18 < 40
W21	egg cameron	1	54.1		54.1
	MALE 40 < 50
M40	carrick armer	1	78.4		78.4
M40	steve wilson	1	73.0		73
M40	chris edwards	1	66.2		66.2
M40	greg barton	1	62.2		62.2
M40	ian nightingale	1	55.6	55.6
	FEMALE 40 < 50
W40	rachael markham	1	47.3		47.3
W40	carmen elphick	1	30.7	30.7
	MALE 50 < 60
M50	andy conn	2	198.1	100	98.1
M50	tim evans	2	172.6	84.8	87.8
M50	david collins	2	155.2	68.7	86.5
M50	richard wise	2	106.4	59.1	47.3
M50	alan powell	1	91.4		91.4
M50	colin johnson	2	90.9	58.5	32.4
M50	oliver anderson	2	90.9	58.5	32.4
M50	mark rowley	1	89.2		89.2
M50	simon caldwell	1	82.2	82.2
M50	warren mason	1	81.1		81.1
M50	neil reid	1	78.4		78.4
M50	andy windrum	1	77.5	77.5
M50	simon coiley	1	77.0		77
M50	phil williams	1	76.0	76
M50	steven colllins	1	74.6	74.6
M50	jeff mew	1	71.6		71.6
M50	douglas nisbet	1	65.8	65.8
M50	graham farrell	1	58.5	58.5
M50	simon waller	1	48.6		48.6
M50	tim edwards + bryan websdale	1	44.7	44.7
M50	graeme tiffany/steve wigglesworth	1	43.2		43.2
M50	graham ramsden	1	30.7	30.7
	FEMALE 50 < 60
W50	angela brand-barker	2	123.4	62.6	60.8
W50	sarah slade	2	113.1	65.8	47.3
W50	sue booth	1	76.0	76
W50	helen bagley	1	27.8	27.8
	MALE  60 < 70
M60	tony brand-barker	2	124.5	73.1	51.4
M60	jeff harris	2	112.9	62.9	50
M60	john deighton	2	84.4	26.3	58.1
M60	jeff barber	1	76.8		76.8
M60	chris swift	1	72.2	72.2
M60	alan kitchener	1	71.6	71.6
M60	steven wood	1	71.6	71.6
M60	steve wood	1	63.5		63.5
M60	robert king	1	59.5		59.5
M60	iain grant	1	58.5	58.5
M60	mark kerr	1	58.5	58.5
M60	john birtwistle	1	51.4		51.4
M60	johnn lebeter	1	51.4		51.4
M60	michael barnard	1	40.9	40.9
	FEMALE  60 < 70
W60	ceri williams	2	78.5	26.3	52.2
W60	susan birtwistle	1	31.1		31.1
W60	liz potterton	1	21.9	21.9
	MALE > 70
M70	steve willis	2	151.8	77.5	74.3
M70	tony thornley	1	64.3	64.3
M70E	john burkinshaw	1	62.2		62.2
	FEMALE > 70
	MIXED 18 < 40
	MIXED 40 < 50
X40	greg barton + claire riley	1	48.2	48.2
	MIXED 50 < 60
X50	gill + paul crane	1	73.7	73.7
X50	karena hanley + keith dawson	1	65.5	65.5
	MIXED > 60
X60	andrea & steve foster	2	145.9	81	64.9
	TANDEM

Planner’s Comments:

Thanks to all of you for coming and for the kind comments. It was good fun checking out all the bridleways (in the winter of course when at least half were deep in mud) and planning the course. The turnout was almost as good as at Markington, which was pleasing given that Pool is at the south edge of NYMBO’s usual terrain.

From a quick scan of the routes, there was no consensus about the right order to tackle the controls.  Exactly as I had hoped. Most people chose to avoid the north east and many started along the south edge, although the two sites in Danefield were strenuous and a bit harder to locate than most of the others. Ian, Ian and Andy who finished within 7 points of each other at the top used quite different strategies. Ian Nixon did by far the most cycling, but got stuck on almost the only really grotty bridleway in Stainburn Forest and finished up a bit late.

MapRun is by no means perfect but it does reduce the need to find ‘clues’ and involves no hardware in the terrain – although I did put out a couple of tapes at sites where there was no feature, in case MapRun didn’t work there. Most of the MapRun failings in the results were down to human errors, for example failing to start the App or losing a phone. And control 24, which I had failed to get to work twice, was fine for everyone. As the GPS signal seems to vary with weather as well as terrain, it may be that we need to hold our events on nice days? But there were a worrying handful of you whose GPS dropped out during the event, just as mine did at Markington. I wonder if MapRun cannot reconnect easily with a phone on a bike that is moving – on the whole – faster than with a static or slower moving phone? I think, on balance, that MapRun is here to stay for Trailquest type events, but it needs a slightly different approach to planning, and may not do for events in steep wooded terrain on wet days.

My thanks to Quentin Harding for uploading the MapRun files for me, to Tim for map printing, to Steve and Dave for managing the NYMBO website, to Cecily at Pool Memorial Hall and to Alistair Wood for all sorts of help with the event. I was going to put a control in his garden in Leathley but decided that it might be a bit too confusing. 

Tony Thornley

Here are the provisional results from yesterdays event – hopefully everyone had a great ride! Tony’s noted a few issues with MapRun results – so if there’s something on the table below that’s not quite right please drop him an email (tonythornley@btinternet.com). Full report to follow later.

V2	First name	Surname	Class	Time	Penalties	MapRun Points	Manual amendments	TOTAL
1	Ian	Nixon	M21	3.17	60	430	0	370
2	Ian	Furlong	M21	2.58	0	365	0	365
3	Andy	Conn	M50	3.06	7	370	0	363
4	Al	Powell	M50	3.06	7	345	0	338
5	Mark	Rowley	M50	3.00	0	330	0	330
6	Christopher	Dodd	M21	3.09	13	340	0	327
7	Tim	Evans	M50	3.05	5	280	50	325
8	David	Collins	M50	3.11	20	340	0	320
9	Warren	Mason	M50	3.10	15	315	0	300
10	Carrick	Armer	M40	3.05	5	295	0	290
10	Neil	Reed	M50	3.10	15	305	0	290
12	Simon	Coiley	M50	2.59	0	285	0	285
13	Jeffrey	Barber	M60	3.01	1	285	0	284
14	Steve	Willis	M70	3.05	5	280	0	275
15	Steve	Wilson	M40	3.11	20	290	0	270
16	Jeff	Mew	M50	2.59	0	265	0	265
16	Jake	Powell	Y18	3.14	35	0	300	265
18	Jack	Page	M21	3.07	9	255	0	246
19	Chris	Edwards	M40	2.51	0	245	0	245
20	Andrea/Steve	Foster	MIX60	3.05	5	245	0	240
21	Steven	Wood	M60	2.56	0	235	0	235
22	Greg	Barton	M40	2.55	0	230	0	230
22	John	Burkinshaw	eBike	2.58	0	225	5	230
24	Angela	Brand-Barker	W60	2.53	0	0	225	225
25	Robert	King	M60	2.50	0	220	0	220
26	John	Deighton	M60	2.54	0	215	0	215
27	Egg	Cameron	W21	2.29	0	200	0	200
28	Ceri	Williams	W60	3.02	2	195	0	193
29	John	Birtwistle	M60	2.41	0	190	0	190
29	Tony	Brand-Barker	M60	2.19	0	0	190	190
29	John	Lebeter	M60	2.34	0	0	190	190
32	Jeff	Harris	M60	2.53	0	135	50	185
33	Simon	Waller	M50	2.52	0	120	60	180
34	Rachael	Markham	W40	2.53	0	0	175	175
34	Sarah	Slade	W50	2.50	0	0	175	175
34	Richard	Wise	M50	2.44	0	80	95	175
37	Graeme/Steve	Tiffany/Wigglesworth	M50	3.17	60	220	0	160
38	Oliver	Anderson	M50	2.51	0	120	0	120
38	Colin	Johnson	M50	2.50	0	120	0	120
40	Susan	Birtwistle	W60	2.57	0	115	0	115
41	Harry	Dillon	M21	3.24	190	210	0	20
42	Paul / Gary	Fletcher/Hetherington	eBike	3.34	lots	225	0	0
42	David	Harvey	M60	3.32	lots	225	0	0

Saturday 12th June – 3 hour MBO event at Pool in Wharfedale.

Online entry closes midnight Wednesday 9th

Blank course map here