[Closed] Boltby Bash 2022

I’m carrying a ticket from 2020. Done Ard Rock, never done this, also looking forward to it.🤘

I'm there

I'm in, raced this year. Great course and lucky with the weather!

I'm in. Had an entry for the cancelled 2020 race, couldn't make the rearranged 2021 date so deferred to '22.
It'll be my first time racing as a Grand Vet!

Did it a couple of years ago. Deferred last year's to this but then wasn't fit enough to go and ride it.

Have done 'Ard Rock a few times but prefer Boltby TBH. Better vibe IMO.

I'm in for next year again though. Sign up was surprisingly painless. Will be at the wrong end of Grand Vets.

Done it afew times, its a smaller event than Ard Rock and better for it IMO. As said a relaxed and fun vibe. Signed up for the Enduro again..hoping for dryer trails than this year haha

You can add me to the list of Grand Vets on here doing it. Also on a held over entry from 2020. It would have been my first ever Enduro (in fact first ever sporting event since I was a kid) if I hadn't just got an entry for PMBA Gisburn for the month before.

I sometimes wonder what the hell I am thinking of entering things like this for the first time at 58, actually I'll be 59 between Gisburn and Boltby. Just come out of a year of cancer treatment which has left me feeling pretty worn out. Not that I was particularly fit before it. Oh well gonna have to get fit pretty quick then. If not watch out for me selling a couple of entries early next spring.

I'm in. Did 2018 and 2019 and loved it, was warm and dry both years too!

Great event.

@Jordan it's a perfect first event! The stages are technical and tricky to ride fast but we'll put together such that everyone can get round.

If you want a really good entry level event to ease you into it, th 3rd Birdsall Blast event is in March and will get you into the swing of an Enduro race at a really good small scale event.

@snotrag Yeah, at best I'm hoping to just get round but it does sound good.

I saw one of those Birdsall Blast events advertised this year and thought they looked fun, might try and get an entry, cheers!

Go for it Jordan! All power to you 👍

You'll be reet mate. It's not a big course n most of the climbs people push anyway and just say it's cos they're saving energy

I'm in as well, did it last year and really enjoyed it, including the biblical rain that started 20secs before dropping into stage 5.

@beagle Cheers mate!
@duncancallum Oh yes! I'll definately be saving my energy for the descents 🙂

It's a great event that's very well organised. Entered for 2022, I saw that the enduro tickets went very quickly, I suppose if people rolled old entries over there won't have been as many up for grabs.

2 entries to the full enduro now available. My mate and I have had to cancel. Message me for details.

I forgot to add, the entries include camping

Doing it for the 4th time, probably my favourite event although I'm so unfit at the moment.

Yeah, it looks like such a great first event. Disappointed that I can’t go. 👎🏼

Anyone had any recent comms from organisers?

@scuttler no but my riding buddie for the day messaged them last night and had a response almost immediately to say that an email will be going out shortly.

It does look an ace event and mates who have done it confirm it is. I was really looking forward to it but had to transfer my entry as still suffering from bust ribs from PMBA Gisburn.

I still have an entry if anyone wants it 👍🏻

Email about start times and updated Rider Brief went out this morning in case you missed it.

Likewise 🙁

I still have an entry if anyone wants it 👍🏻

 

Email about start times and updated Rider Brief went out this morning in case you missed it.

Does it tell you when you can sign on for the sportive? Spotted there's a ticket for sale in the classifieds and the format suits my riding, what's putting me off is the 8am start on a Sunday which doesn't suit me at all. Might be more palatable if I can ride over Saturday at a reasonable hour, sign on then head over for Sunday.

@dangerourbrain

Rider Brief at https://www.boltbybashenduro.com/rider-brief/

Make of it what you will (0630 gets a mention ☹). Organisers are pretty sharp with email responses but I expect they'll be busy right now.

Make of it what you will (0630 gets a mention ☹)

I make of that that I'll probably not bother then 😂

No way on earth I'm heading over for that time of the morning and as no one else will want to get a chip at 6.30 there will be a colossal queue by the time I would be thinking of arriving.

Thank you!

You are entered on the Sportive.

Please come to the Event Hub between 06:30 - 07:45 on Sunday 15th May to collect your SPORTident Timing card. There will be a Mass Start at 08:00.

The above is from my confirmation email. I for one won't be there at 6:30. If I miss the start by a few mins, its OK (in my books)

Edit: Also a mass start might be interesting

Edit: Also a mass start might be interesting

From similar stuff it's a big part of what appeals for the sportive to be honest. The fast folk will be long gone by the top of the first climb, the can't pedal won't pedal weekend warriors will be 5 minutes behind by the time you top out at high paradise and despite being much quicker on the downs they're not *that* much quicker on the downs. End result is it tends to be steady plodders like me in the middle so you get a reasonable run at the various stages without being in the way all the time and get round the loop at a pace you're happy with.

Enduro proper I just end up getting "rider" every 20 seconds down the first stage, finish the stage, pass many of those same riders on the way up repeat for stage 2 and so on.

Mass start - riders line up and are steadily released to ensure chips are activated as they pass through the start gate.

I've rode the sportive before, Its still a great ride the 1st big climb spreads out the pack nicely. Finished quite well too IIRC as I dont mind the odd climb.

Almost forgot about the allocated start times but nabbed a 10.30 slot

Mass start – riders line up and are steadily released to ensure chips are activated as they pass through the start gate.

Disappointing, I was hoping for a Megavalanche style, carnage riddled free for all

Wrong time of year for snow on the start line @mtbqwerty - they could probably manage slurry very easily though?

Long time reader of this forum had loads of great advice from others threads, including entering the boltby bash. Really can’t wait for it it’ll be my first ever event on a bike, I don’t expect to be fast but excited for a great day out. I will be riding a yellow Cotic BFEMax which will hopefully be enough bike.

BFe will be spot on for most of Boltby I reckon. I'll be horribly overbiked on my RocketMAX.

Does anyone know what facilities there will be for camping (toilets, showers etc)? Seen we should bring our own drinking water.

Haven't done it for 3 years. Back then there were toilets but no showers or water. Mates who did it last year said that hadn't changed.

@colournoise in their defence they scaled back a lot of things last year due to the 'vid. Hopefully this year it'll be a good setup. Gutted I can't race but I'll defo be there to watch on the Sunday.

Doesn't look like I'm even going to be able to watch now. The bust ribs have left me with a haemothorax causing a partialy collapsed lung, haven't got the breath to walk anywhere.

@Jordan dude that sucks big time. Healing vibes bud, take it easy and heal up soon.

Website / Rider Brief says drinking water is limited so bring your own.

@relapsed_mandalorian Cheers bud! The ribs are starting to heal now, albeit a bit outof line so I have an interesting delve in my chest now. Could just do with the use of my lung back. Docs say give it another few weeks to see if it clears itself. If it doesn't then they will drain it which is by all accounts rather painful. Don't care though if it gets the lung working at full capacity again.

Doing the sportive, as didn't get entry in early enough for enduro, still looking forward to it. Is there a water fill up point on the course? Is the water limitation only at the campsite?

Was hoping to ride without a pack but if there's no water stop and it's warm I may need it.