{"id":1538,"date":"2010-06-03T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2010-06-03T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T09:18:19","slug":"novik-map-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"Novik Map Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.novikboard.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/nowastronka1\/_\/rsrc\/1273610287199\/wwwnovikboardcouk\/logo.jpg?height=80&amp;width=200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>At one of the Mountain Bike Orienteering (MTBO) Events I organised earlier this year a Polish competitor approached me with some leaflets and a demo map board. Currenty the sheer cost of &#8216;proper&#8217; map boards in the UK is becoming a barrier to the sports development. A MIRY board that I currently use is now over \u00a360 in the UK and replacement A4 boards on their own a dizzying \u00a320.00.<\/p>\n<p>I have suggested in the past that newcomers just use a zip tied pi<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/06\/novik1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1539\" title=\"novik1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/06\/novik1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>ece of plastic on the handlebars and elastic bands but riders soon outgrow this method and all sorts of home made &#8216;rotating lash ups&#8217; can be seen at events, some awful some quite accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>The Novik board has a similar look to others on the market and is designed for those on a budget.<\/p>\n<p>I was asked to try one and give my feedback. I found it very easy to fit and adjust, particularly fore and aft to get its position just right. I tend to have the map board placed so I can still see the trail ahead with my peripheral vision whilst looking at the map.<br \/>\nThe thumbscrews also mean that no tools are needed to get it on and off the bars and that it will fit both standard and oversize bars.<\/p>\n<p>Other than the board material being a little flimsy at speed (only likely to bother elite riders) I found it very good<a href=\"http:\/\/www.novikboard.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">. They are now available in the UK via Novik&#8217;s website priced at \u00a337.00<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one of the Mountain Bike Orienteering (MTBO) Events I organised earlier this year a Polish competitor approached me with some leaflets and a demo map board. Currenty the sheer cost of &#8216;proper&#8217; map boards in the UK is becoming a barrier to the sports development. A MIRY board that I currently use is now &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Novik Map Boards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}