We are pleased to return for a 2021 MBO Score series and we have planners lined up to test your navigation and time keeping skills. These are 2 or 3 hour Mountain Bike Orienteering events held mainly on Sunday mornings, using the MBO Score format. Events are run by SLOW in affiliation with the BMBO.

Event Schedule and Information

Date	Venue	Planners
11th Jul	Chiddingfold	Julian Hemsted
8th Aug	Effingham	Jane Robinson
12th Sep	Salisbury – Joint WIM/SLOW	Kevin Pickering
17th Oct	Woodcote	Dave Uglow

General info: SLOW MBO events

Results: 2021 Series

Event updates: Newsletter

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We have 4 Virtual MBO Score Courses available using the phone based App MapRunF which you can go and try at any time.

If you would like to contact any of the organisers, email the series coordinator Dave Uglow at:

Online Entry

Event entry is available on the BMBO website.

Riders are encouraged to enter in advance. You will need a BMBO account. An Adult Day Rider account is free as is Under 21s membership. Full adult membership is currently £8 Jan – Dec and will give you a £1 discount on all SLOW and other BMBO events.

Membership runs until the end of each calendar year. If you have had an account at any time please re-use it it to renew your membership as either a Day Rider or Full Member. Under 21 accounts may take a few days to be activated.

Your age class for ALL 2021 events is your age on 31st Dec 2021.

If you have your own dibber, please add the number in your BMBO account.

Entry Classes

• Solos
  E-Bike
  Y18 = Youth 10 – 20
  M21/W21 = Open, 21 to 39
  M40/W40 = 40 to 49
  M50/W50 = 50 to 59
  M60/W60 = 60 to 69
  M70/W70 = 70+
• Pairs
  E-Bike
  Y18 = Youth 10 – 20
  M21/W21 = Open, combined age 34* to 79 (* minimum 17+)
  M40/W40 = combined age 80 to 99
  M50/W50 = combined age 100 to 119
  M60/W60 = combined age 120+
  GEN = Generation (Youth 10-17 accompanied at all times by Adult 18+)
• Mixed Pairs
  E-Bike
  MIX21 = combined age 34* to 79 (* minimum 17+)
  MIX40 = combined age 80 to 99
  MIX50 = combined age 100 to 119
  MIX60 = combined age 120+
  GEN = Generation (Youth 10-17 accompanied at all times by Adult 18+)
• Teams of 3+
  GEN = Generation (enter online in a suitable combination of pairs and solos)

Small Area Format (SAF)

Events will often include a choice of 2 courses, 3 or 2 hours. Both options will use the same map and checkpoints but the 3 hour one may be run as a Small Area Format (SAF) course.

For SAF, the checkpoints will be labelled red and blue, you choose which colour to start on and collect as many of that colour as you wish until you swap to the other colour. Once you’ve swapped you can’t revert back to the original colour. Points will be evenly split between the colours. For the 2 hour course the colour has no significance and you can visit the checkpoints in any order.

This example Mogador event  map shows our final event of 2018 redrawn as a SAF event.

Series Prizes

Series prizes will be presented to the top 3 finishers in the following categories:

Male Veteran (50+), Male Senior (18-49), Female Veteran (50+), Female Senior (18-49), Youth/Junior. There must be sufficient qualifiers for all the prizes to be awarded in each category.

Series rankings are based on your top 3 scores from this years events. To be eligible for prizes, participants must have attended at least 2 events.