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CATS Mountain Bike Club are organising a Midlands MBO & BMBO 3 hour mountain bike orienteering event on The Ridgeway near Wantage, Oxon.
You can find out more information and enter here: CATS MBC
This is a new area for the club to organise in but not a new area for them to ride.
It would be great to see a new face or 2.
I'll be there! (barring injury or illness).
Don't think I've ridden that area before so will be a test of navigation skills rather than memory. Will it be SI controls or MapRun?
I wonder what the STWer / MBOer Venn diagram overlap looks like? There must be a few of us on here?
We sometimes do MBO, mostly a bit further north (yorks/lakes). Not so much recently, various reasons...
Was a time I used to do most of the MBO rounds (I even took the trophy one year). Unfortunately Covid and an E-bike (and advancing years) have meant I have found it hard to get back into the sport. I keep telling myself to get fit and get back into it. Easier said than done. To go from the expectation of a top 5 finish at any event to the thought of being an also-ran fills me with fear 🙁
@welshfarmer , you could enter the ebike class (I suspect you might win it).
Haha I don't reckon an Ebike is up to the job Si. I sometimes managed to ride 70 km on 3 hour Midlands events with an average speeds equivalent to what an E-bike will do on the flat tops. Nope. Got to get fit. Been back on the peddler a few times lately, just need to stick at it.
Si kit will be used at this event
As the BMBO payment system is currently off line I have made the payment zero so riders can enter and pay on the day.
There will be NO on the day payment surcharge.
Si kit will be used at this event
I must not forget my dibber! (I've grown accustomed to not needing one for recent events)