MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch
I'm in.
Registered with my muscle amish bike. Hoping I may have an ecstacy bike by then.
In with a crew from the club. Good times.
(as long as I can keep my head in it - failed spectacularly to do that this year!)
Great event. I have taken photos the last few years:
Might give it a go riding.
In! Excellent event
I don't know how many places they have but 1,100 entries so far!
First time entrant. Riding with the local club crew.
Excited and nervous in equal measure. Must get some miles in.
Im in, first BB, looking forward to it!
I'm in! First Enduro event. Normally a lycra clad XC/CX/Road rider. Need to get some practice.
I'm in!
2nd time for me looking forward to it.
Now I can spend time working out who you are from user names!
A few of us entered under our work company name....
I'm in.
Not me, gutted as it falls on our 10th wedding anniversary 🙁
I don’t know how many places they have but 1,100 entries so far!
I think they dropped the marathon or whatever it was called to make more space in the enduro.
All full now!
I'm in. It looks to have sold out very quickly.
I'm in again. Done it 3 or 4 times now, cracking event..Great riding and a nice relaxed vibe.
explorerboy
First time entrant. Riding with the local club crew.
Damn! I think they found me!
Bestest behaviour here from now on then...
Not this year gutted
Ticket booked. Now to prevaricate and only ride the turbo until three days before when I realise I can't remember how flat bar shifters or brakes work.
Right then, not long until the event.
The last time I camped was Latitude Festival 2013 and this is my first time EVER doing an enduro race... What am I going to need to take with me?
Beer.
Bbq
Beer.
Ear plugs
Maybe a tent might be a good idea.
Beer.
I guess you should probably take a bike, but I don't suppose that matters so much
Those obvious things, got them 😉
Something to wipe your bum with.
Although going by your question you're probably not sure how to do that either.
OOOHH ZING!! 😀
Water....
Plus non shower type cleaning equipment.
Water….
What on earth for?
You can drink beer, you can make coffee with beer, you can cook with beer and make porridge with beer.
Plus non shower type cleaning equipment.
The only real reason to think water might be a good idea is a shower and yet you suggest that's not the reason at all, wet wipes already being wet and all.
Timely reminder that I entered this event.
Any recommendations for places to stay around there? Thirsk I guess must have some spots. Coming from Manc so a bit too much driving to go there and back each day.
Er the on-site campsite?
anyone need/want a ticket with two nights camping? the event starts this Friday
A recent (annoying, painful) shoulder injury is keeping me off the bike for much longer than I expected. I am very sad about it.
DM me for details.
anyone got the final rider briefing email yet? One was mentioned in the one about picking start times but not seen one.
anyone got the final rider briefing email yet?
One was mentioned in the one about picking start times but not seen one.
There is some bumph on the website.
I'm bloody gutted the start time I picked back on the 5th never saved so had to go for 13.50. Emailed them hoping I can get in earlier need to be done in decent time TBH. On the plus side weathers looking good.
Start time email came through Sat 6th, go on sientries and pick your time but cant imagine many/any early slots will be available.
A mate is up there now and he tells me no open fires or BBQs this year.
A mate is up there now and he tells me no open fires or BBQs this year.
Ah pants. Thanks for confirming now though, so I didn't bother packing it
Looks like my info wasn't totally accurate, off ground BBQs are allowed but no firepits.
Yeah email from last night / this morning says
Off ground BBQ ok but no open fires or fire pits
Just watched a view videos of previous years - looks very pedally!
I've put a slaughter on the back this morning and if I can get the wheel retaped it'll be a butcher front I think and I'll see how they hold up Saturday.
Spare shortys at the ready mind...
Stages not very pedally. For a mid pack rider expect each stage to be 2 - 2.5 minutes long. Three midsection probably the most pedalling.
It’s certainly not hard but you do have to pedal to go faster. Racing innit!
Two points of order.
It’s certainly not hard but you do have to pedal to go faster
You scream to go faster, not pedal. Have you never been to a fair?
Racing innit!
Rubbing is racing. Not pedaling.
Enjoyed that - trails just right. Was a bit baked in the heat yesterday, but got an 8am start this morning and felt great.
A gentlemanly 12.45 total for me - should prob try using my brakes less, but pleased to get round smooth.
Hope everyone got a good run - big thks to organisers and marshalls for such a well run event.
Great event again, perfect weather! I got a time of 12.57, over a minute slower than last year🙄
I wasn't fast but got round safely. It's a great event with a very friendly crowd. I didn't experience or see anyone being a dick, just people being supportive and encouraging.
That was brilliant! My first Enduro event. Mid table finish Just under 12 minutes with a little lie down on stage 5.
Trails were fine, I could get down all of them no bother in practice but pushing myself in the race made it a whole different experience- trying to go faster rather than survive. Would have been challenging in the wet!
Be interested to know what else I should enter. Ard Rock and Moors are long sold out. I hear the Naughty Northumbrian is a lot harder? Newcastle based so Northern ones are better.
Be interested to know what else I should enter. Ard Rock and Moors are long sold out.
Don't know if you're on facebook, but might be worth joining a few buy/sell groups to keep an eye out for tickets. There's been a few up for sale recently.
10:35 for me, well happy with that!
Didn't make any big mistakes, just a few silly ones that didn't cost me too much time.
I so didn't crash which was the main thing!
A disappointed 13.01 for me, should easily have taken twenty to thirty seconds off if that. Lovely ride, nice stages but I just couldn't hold any speed and the peadly bits where I absolutely should have chased my riding buddy down I felt like I was riding through treacle.
That being said though it was a great weekend, I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope to be back next year. Probably with an air can on the back 😂
First time going (and first Enduro) for me, excellent event! Ran really well, shame the bogs got emptied around 8am on race day causing pretty big queue.
Really good loop and the 5 stages were all ace fun, I did actually train for the event (only from beginning of March mind!) as an incentive to get fitter so happy to reach goal of finishing in top half of U40, picked up a quad strain in the week leading up to event meant I got cramp on practise day which meant whenever I sprinted on race day the cramp was coming in again, frustrating! But that's life.
Went on my own as everyone I knew missed the tickets. Sat in the back of my van eating tea and nice lad from MTB outlaws asks if I’d like to come over and sit with there lot, which was really great rode with them Sunday and had a great time. Don’t know if it was the times I set off but seemed very quiet which worked out well for me as hardtails are hard work at speed no match for a FS. hope to be back next year.
Great weekend. Nice to be on the same tracks as last year and in similar (awesome) weather to see how times had changed. Felt like the upper limits of numbers were pushed, but didn't really get held up much with an early start. Practice was hairy with people stopped on track on stage 2. Stage 3 and 5 were my weakest - soft berm after the rock thing and lost the front on 5, stalled in another soft bit on 3... there's a theme here...
11.34 for me, for some reason I was dead nervous on Stage 1, seemed to sap me of any strength.
1st time for me and absolutely loved it! Loads of long waits on the stages but made for a nice chilled day.
11.23 for me on the new stead, with only a 45 min ride on friday to check suspension and seat height felt ok,
it felt great in practise and then the race, definately slacker and oversteered a few corners, a silly tumble on stage 5 into what felt like quick sand put a stop to a top 1/3rd finish.
cracking social atmosphere at boltby, a far larger event than when seeing guy martin's instagram acct in 2017 and setting a reminder to book tickets that november
and far easier than the wet in 2021, the long s4 chute felt good, last time i slid down the 2/3 of the length on my bum with my feet still on the pedals a quick flip up at the bottom to pedal on..
pmba next week, bricking it...
@jonba this should be perfect: https://nrbevents.co.uk/races-and-events/fryup-mash-up/
Having done previous NRB events it'll be fun, not too technical. The birsdall events were easier than Boltby but the terrain at Fryupdale should be more interesting.
Ard Rock is great, I found Ard Moors a fair bit harder than Boltby.
We had a big crowd, camped together, rode together. Excellent weekend and will be back.
12.24 for me which is 20 seconds or so slower than last year, but I couldnt care less TBH. Awesome riding/weather/company. Weekends like that are what its all about for me.
Some really good times in the results, would have thought the ebike times might have been a bit quicker and less spread generally as there was a lot of time to be made with some hefty pedaling on most of the stages, although there looked to be a lot more ebikes than results suggest. (maybe I just noticed them more).
I see an Amanda Wishart, I assume of single track fame, in the ladies results too.
Well done to everyone who raced and thanks to those who organised it
Great event. Poor time, 13.16. But I broke out of the bottom 10% from last year, finishing in the bottom 15%! At this rate of improvement, I'll be close to the top 10% by the time I'm 70!
I found stages 4 & 5 more tricky this year, maybe I was trying a bit too hard, maybe it was a bit greasier over the rocks & roots in the woods, plus also just being more fatigued by then. But, a brilliant weekend!
`Always an enjoyable event, a few PRs but not troubling the top half of the table yet, I don't feel quick but riding everything confidently which at my age is more important. My race is with my kids or at least it used to be my lad was in the low 11s and I was over a minute behind I can't see me making that up but he's 17 now and allowed to be quicker than his old man. Daughter made big improvement too about a minute faster than last year, first time she hit all the jumps which was a big mental block for her going so big on the stage 3 ramp the crowd cheered! She did the B line at the end of stage 4 having crashed in the wet last year so she didn't want to do the A, and finished just 1 second behind me overall so she's already talking about doing the A and beating me next time.
Great event to do with the kids fooman. My lad is nearly 15 and I was thinking he would love to try something like Boltby - be a step up from what we usually ride but a great introduction to enduro.
Would also be a good excuse to buy an enduro bike, as he is now the same height as me...
so big on the stage 3 ramp
I had a very near disaster on the penultimate one on practice, wasn't carrying the speed and hadn't seen it until I was already out of the corner and front wheel on (glad they moved it back a few metres for race day!).
It'll be fine I thought, both the ones up top had back slopes on them, I'll just pump that and pick up a bit of speed...
https://www.rootsandrain.com/photos/10416290?y=277
Was it anyone here that managed to go through the entire off camber rooty/rocky bit at the top of stage 2 on their front wheel, in front of the baying crowds? This was early afternoon on the Sat.
He was on a red Trek, right? That was properly VitalRaw worthy!!!
was it me or were the trails alot more worn out, stage 4 and 5 felt really brake bumped by midday sunday,
i guess thats what 1,050 bikes x2 days including ebikes does to a course.
oh and talking about jumps i think that first one on s4 was a higher degree than i expected :0)
Yeah it was very dusty, I majorly locked up at the end of the fireroad on stage 5, swapped to Shorty for the race run which helped in the dust and loam.
He was on a red Trek, right? That was properly VitalRaw worthy!!!
Didn't see the bike! I was stood at the chute/corner just before so only saw from the back. Impressive save. 10.21 here, 45" up on last year which I pleased with, particularly with the mistakes.
Some good times on here! People on a bike forum can actually ride bikes whodathunkit.
Daft question - anyone know of you can see the stage breakdowns? The results I saw all just gave an overall.
Quite like to know how much my inability to pedal cost me on 3 and 4 especially
On Roots and Rain click on "show additional columns" for stage results.
Ah, that's much more obvious with now you mention it's there 😂
@willjones I saw that too, brilliant save. I actually changed my line on that bit for Sunday and went high/to the left of the top tree and dropped down, was quite smooth. Some slippy sniper rocks/roots in the woods on 4/5!
My second year going. Great event, shall go next year. Pleased with my time at 12:02. I went on my own and managed to socialize somewhat despite my introversion. I've purchased a lot of the photos on RnR.
Hopefully the event keeps running, i heard there have been issues with the landowner(s).
Hopefully the event keeps running, i heard there have been issues with the landowner(s).
We had a very strange interaction riding through the village on sat - single file, very much behaving 'said good morning' to a lady walking her dog and she smiled and said 'It's not, we don't want you here'. I guess some people like their little Boltby bubble.
We had a very strange interaction riding through the village on sat – single file, very much behaving ‘said good morning’ to a lady walking her dog and she smiled and said ‘It’s not, we don’t want you here’. I guess some people like their little Boltby bubble.
For 2 days out of the year of minor inconvenience and they see fit to be a pain in the arse! Ffs
Unfortunately I think there is quite a lot of that small minded little England mentality around there
(sheltered, rich, whiter than white Country/Brexity/anti-immigration types. Or sorry are they oppressed?).
Last year we were riding across the top track above stage one and some right fat c**t young farmer type with another much slenderer young farmer type insisted walking right in the way on purpose just to be difficult.
Horrible people (the worst)
Photographed the Gralloch UCI gravel race on Saturday and was at the Boltby Bash for Sunday. Great conditions on stage 1.
My images are here - https://www.rootsandrain.com/event11523/2023-may-21-boltby-bash-boltby-bash-enduro-boltby/photos/filters/photogs2589/
lady walking her dog and she smiled and said ‘It’s not, we don’t want you here’. I guess some people like their little Boltby bubble.
Don’t overlook the fact that these horrid ****s are unwelcome visitors elsewhere. They’re just too naive to realise it.
**** em.
As for the sheltered rich comment, in case you were wondering about the massive gaff on the hill below the S3 ascent - https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/45639889#