Thanks to Tim Evans for an excellent course, Jens for another well-drawn map and the Royal Oak for their hospitality. 38 riders took part in the final winter event and congratulations to the winners. Everyone seemed to enjoy their rides as the orienteering gives purpose to a ride which we probably wouldn’t have bothered with when we saw the forecast. Here are the results so please let me know if there are any mistakes.

Staveley Results

It was close in both men’s categories where Nathan had an excellent ride to win with 457 point, 2 points ahead of Phill Collings 453 then Graham Tibbott 446. Martin Vesty won the Veteran class with 445 just one point ahead of Neil Reed with 444. There were 3 Generation pairs – Male – Dave & Gabe Collins 297, Female – Jemima & Lois Parker 251 then Mixed – Jonathon & Tessa Buckley with 219 in their first event.
Karen Blackburn won the Ladies section with 268 points while John Deighton & Ceri Williams were the first Mixed pair with 225 points.

I’ll ask the leaders to post their routes. I thoroughly enjoyed my ride as usual because it brought back memories of many rides when I lived in Aldborough and also planned my first 5 hour event using many of these tracks. My route was 2 30 19 21 23 5 15 29 20 22 13 28 18 8 25 12 24 17 10 1. Fortunately, I didn’t get caught up in the hunt like some riders.
The league starts next month with a 3 hour event in the Howardian Hills. Karen Clark has been checking out the bridleways and booked Terrington village hall. Its a beautiful area so I hope you can make it.

Final event of our winter series is the upcoming Saturday, February 20th, with the event base at the excellent The Royal Oak in Staveley.

Event centre: Main St, Staveley, Yorkshire HG5 9LD
REGISTER 9.15 -10.15 STARTS 9.30 – 10.30

Paid online entry here or using the website form to reserve a map and pay on the day.

Thanks to Dave Lloyd for a well-planned course which took us along the better bridleways and quiet country lanes through picturesque villages in a small window of good weather. Thanks to Jens for another excellent map, the White Bear for a warm welcome and 27 riders for believing the forecast and enjoying the course.

Here are the results. Please let me know if there are any mistakes

Stillington Results
Congratulations to the category winners.
Generation Luke & Adrian Parker 250
Senior Men Phill Collings 231
Mixed Andrea & Steve Foster 200
Veteran Men David Day 190
Women Karen Clark 183

I’ve asked them to post their routes on the NYMBO page. Here is the map so that you can follow them.

2016 Stillington 50000 Working Drawing with Controls 11th January

I thoroughly enjoyed my second ride of the year and my first dry one. I went via 11 and 16 (as I hadn’t ridden those bridleways before) 1 8 14 2 26 (as I hadn’t ridden it for years) 10 22 9 15 27 finishing with 18 (the only muddy one). I rode 36k. and finished 10 minutes before it started snowing. (I also got home in an hour unlike last month when it took 4 hours).
Our final winter event is on February 20th from the Royal Oak at Staveley near Knaresborough and Tim Evans has planned another challenging course. Hopefully it will be drier than it looks on some of the photos he has sent me from his planning rides.
Steve

This Saturday is the third of our winter treasure hunt series, based at the White Bear in Stillington – blank map below. Hope to see you there!

SAT 30th JANUARY 2016 White Bear, Stillington YO61 1JU

COURSE 2 hour Mountain Bike Orienteering Score event
MAP Pre-marked 1-40,000 A4 colour extract of OS Sheet
REGISTER 9.15 -10.15 STARTS 9.30 – 10.30
FEES ADULTS – £5.00 JUNIORS – £3.00
Save £1 by entering online at BMBO
FACILITIES Parking and toilets at the pub

Thanks to 33 riders who ignored the forecast and rode on Rik Thompson’s excellent course around Tadcaster. It was the coldest, wettest day this year and the only redeeming feature was the absence of wind. Despite this everyone seemed to enjoy their rides when they had thawed out in the very welcoming Coach & Horses. It has been said that there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes. After today, I’m not going to use that expression again as no kit was good enough to keep us dray or our feet warm. As usual, I thoroughly enjoyed my ride but decided at Bramham that I wouldn’t be staying out for the full 2 hours so didn’t venture south of the A64. My route was 7 27 16 26 11 1 8 20 22 13 18 28 17 21 6 9 and I’ll ask the winners to post theirs. Here are the map and results

2015 Tadcaster 40000 TH Working Drawing with Controls 24th November

Tadcaster Results

The only thing I didn’t enjoy about the day was the 4 hour drive trying to get home through the snow to Richmond. I ended up leaving the car at Skeeby and walking the last 2 miles. Hope it’s still there in the morning and everyone else got home safely.

Hope to see you at the next event at Stillington in January.
Merry Christmas from Rik and me at the Coach & Horses

Steve

Here’s the blank map for this Saturdays event at the Coach & Horses, Tadcaster LS24 8AA. Register from 0915, starts from 0930 – flier here

At 2130 Monday, the weather forecast looks like this – ideal conditions for a winter ride and certainly better than last weekend!

We have only had two comments about how to improve the numbers of riders at our events. One suggestion is that we have a few Sunday events and the other is that we need to advertise more on the Web, Facebook and Twitter. We need to start applying for dates and permissions for next year soon so please let me know what you think of these suggested events.

This is only a provisional list so please don’t print it out or send it to your friends yet as I haven’t cleared the dates with BMBO or checked with any landowners for permission.

We still need a publicity ‘officer’ and planners for Wykeham and Malham so please let me know if you are interested.

There are only 10 events on this list so it will be your best 5 events to score next year

There will also hopefully be 2 MTBO events organised by Tim Evans and Andrew Windrum

I haven’t fixed a date for the 10th Moors Marathon yet so please let me know if you have any suggestions

I am also planning the Spring OMM Bike event in the Peak District on April 23rd/24th

Hope to see you at Tadcaster

Steve

Alun Powell made this excellent video of his ride at the Hunton Treasure Hunt event – the cold and a bit windy balanced out with blue skies and sunshine just to show what a good morning it was to be out on your bike. Perhaps this might encourage you to come along to the next event at Tadcaster on December 12th starting from the Coach & Horses.  Thanks Al!

Thanks to all who voted in our favourite event poll for 2015 – the April event in Nidderdale was the clear winner….

favourite event poll 2015

Here are the results from yesterday

Hunton results

Fortunately, the forecast was correct so the wind died down and the sun came out but it was still too cold for our feet to stay dry. Thanks to Jens for another excellent map but I must apologise for marking #22 in the wrong place! Thanks to Tony and his staff at the Countryman Inn for a warm welcome – especially afterwards. Congratulations to the category winners especially in the very competitive Generation class. I thoroughly enjoyed my ride as usual but, looking at the snow further up Wensleydale, I  was glad that the highest control on our course was at 268m. My route was        3 20 27 22 11 21 15 16 10 29 12 23 9 5. Please can you comment and add your routes? Hope to see you at our next event at Tadcaster on 12th December