Parking: There is parking at the village hall, if the carpark gets full you can park at the roadside around the edge of the village. If the weather remains dry parking is allowed on the playing field.
The MapRun course is ready for download at the usual location or you can use the QR code. select event / UK / North Yorkshire / NYMBO / Summer 25 /
Event Centre: Village Hall, Worsendale Road, Bishop Wilton YO42 1ST
1 mile south of the A166 at Garrowby Hill, 5 Mike’s east of Stamford Bridge
3 hour course, Registration 0915 -1015, starts from 0930 until 1030.
Jon’s planned a great course in another area tta we’ve not visited in a while! Forecast suggests the tracks may still be quite dry (famous last words!)
Please check to make sure your score has appeared and is correct! Let us know if any adjustments required that you haven’t been able to do yourself in MapRun (see FAQ if required). We’re aware of the switch between #10 and #19 on MapRun vs the paper map.
Here’s Jill and Conrad’s report:
We fell in love with the area more than 10 years ago after we did a similar event (Ralph and Christine). We spent a week each summer camping in Fadmoor and cycling on the lovely quiet roads and tracks with our son.
We fancied a change this year so planned an event from Fadmoor covering both Bransdale and Farndale as well as Rudland Rigg.
The tracks were bone-dry for the event but sodden during the recce stage in January and February. We avoided putting controls around Sleightholme Dale given the muddy riding earlier this year. If we’d known we were in for a long dry spell we would definitely have included the area.
It was great to chat with riders and everyone seemed to enjoy the riding.
Thank you to Tim for his great support and to Fadmoor Village Hall.
Parking: see picture below, the Village Hall highkighted in green – the north/south road tends to get a bit of farm traffic so please use the strip shown in purple for parking.
It’s around 10 years since our last event here so it’s long overdue a return and so we have a 4 hour course to explore the area. More details to follow.
Entry discount ends midnight Monday 21st! If you’re an adult day rider, or adult BMBO a member, then you’ll want to benefit from the 40% discount that makes entry just £9 and £8.40 respectively. We’ve kept the youth and novice prices low all the time (so no discount needed).
Hopefully our new pricing structure keeps events affordable for all and keeps our rider numbers high like we’ve seen over the winter events.
There are 10 events this year, with the best 5 scores qualifying for the league places at the end of the season.
All the event dates are on the poster below and all details will be on the NYMBO and BMBO websites.
MapRun results from Saturday are here. Please check to make sure your individual result is correct and let us know of any changes needed. Final positions will be updated shortly here.
Tony commented that “the area used was deliberately large to force riders to make route choices. I think I succeeded in that looking at the routes taken, but hope that the climbs were not too wearisome.
I put a lot of time into checking bridleways and control sites so I hope the map was clear and accurate.
Thanks to all those helpers who made the car parking work out, Tim for taking over the finish when I had to go off singing in Ilkley and to you all for coming.”
The MapRun course is ready for download at the usual location or you can use the QR code. select event / UK / North Yorkshire / NYMBO / Winter 24-25 /
Start and Finish locations are shown in the photo – make sure to check the parking details in the post below, and review the blank course map to get familiar with the area.
Any other last minute details will be posted here if required.
Just a few hours until Askwith entries close tonight – enter here
Great to see good numbers of entries for this event! We’ve been thinking about the charging structure for events that keeps entry costs low, encourages early entry, and allows us to print enough maps for people who enter on the day.
This is our proposal for the 2025 league – a bigger discount for early entries for adult Day Riders & BMBO members; simple low-cost entry at all time for younger people and novices; and a small surcharge for EOD. As in the table below.
For BMBO Adult entries – that’s the majority of riders – the discounted price proposed here is cheaper than 2024!
Comments welcome on this proposal by email or to Tim on Saturday.
NYMBO 2025 Pricing
Full Price
40% discount for entry by midnight Monday before the event
Day Rider
15
9
BMBO
14
8.4
BMBO u21
5
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Day u21
6
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NYMBO First timer / novice
3
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Day Rider EOD
16
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BMBO EOD
15
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BMBO u21 EOD
6
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u21 EOD
7
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EOD is subject to map availability and you may end up handmarking the blank maps.
Important – Parking Registration is at the Penny Bun in Askwith, LS21 2JQ, which is also the finish.
Parking at the pub is limited; only those eating at the pub may use the pub car park.
Rob Marston at Ibbotson Farm has kindly agreed to let us park in his yard. It is ~400m E of the pub – see map below. If you park there, do not obstruct his access road. Do not park on the E-W road in the village unless there is nowhere else. If so, do not obstruct any residents’ entrances and only park on one side of the road. Registration will be at the back of the pub outside the pub door if fine or in the back of the pub if wet.
Toiletsand food – there are toilets in the pub which should be open from 9.00. No muddy shoes/boots in the pub please. The pub has an excellent and extensive menu. There is no need to order food in advance; Gary the manager says he will be happy to cater for hungry bikers as long as they don’t all turn up at the same time. There is plenty of indoor seating as well as a lot of space outside if the weather is ok.
MapRun – the event is entirely MapRun based. b FAQ if you’ve not used it before. Don’t forget to download the event in advance (details to follow next week). All the controls have been checked for accuracy but GPS is variable. A Strava backup would be wise, but I’ll listen to pleading.
Start/Finish – You can register between 0900 – 1000 and start between 0915 – 1015. The time limit is 3 hours with the usual penalties. There are no pre-assigned start times; first come, first served. You will get control descriptions at registration. The start is on the road in front of the pub. MapRun will start if you tap ‘go to start’ at the pub. So, when told to start, and not before, tap ‘Go To Start’ on MapRun and it should bleep when the GPS finds you at the start. You will be timed from that point. The finish is in the pub car park. After finishing please report back to registration to confirm your finish: in the pub garden or in the pub if wet. I cannot see why anyone should cycle back past the start before they want to finish, but if you do MapRun might end your run. You can restart if near the start by repeating ‘Go To Start” and it will record it as a separate run. We will make adjustments at the end if anything goes wrong.
Course map – the blank course map is below. The map is 1:40000, adapted from the 50000 OS and is 350x275mm.This is a large and hilly area. I don’t think anyone will get near a full house of the controls, so choose carefully at the start. The map is marked with the usual 30 controls with points values between 5 and 30. Map size is almost A3: 350 x 275mm.
Important Safety!
Kit: some of the routes cross high and exposed moorland. Come prepared if the weather is poor. We also urge you to wear a bright top and use lights as you are likely to use busy A roads.
Some roads and routes are marked out of bounds with red crosses – don’t go there!.
An unmanned, unsignalled level crossing in Burley in Wharfedale is usable, but be careful. Visibility is good and trains all warn of their approach.
The Wharfe stepping stones in Burley in Wharfedale are usually under water. You will be told at registration if they are feasible on the day. If so, you cross at your own risk. They are out of bounds if I say they are uncrossable!
You must report to the finish. My phone number is on the map if you’re stuck.
However I am going to sing in Ilkley at about 1pm, so please ring Tim if stuck after then.
Terrain – It’s hilly. The rideability of the bridleways is shown on the map – see the legend – but these are weather and rider dependent. There is one short footpath at the E end of Danefield which you can use, but you must give way to any walkers you come across.
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