Wyegate Trial 13th Apr 2025
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Info
Official press release: (It's also official the our editor has lost his marbles and can't even read his own results! Simon has only won the Wyegate Cup Twice, Not 3 times. Jason Bendall took half a second of him in 2018 on the test to grab the Cup. Jase,Simon, Andy Foot and Martin Gilbert, all on clean!) 19Apr2025 17:10 - The PROVISIONAL Results now have full special test details, linked on the right. Video coming soon (Honest Kev!)
Gallery
We have some Video footage too, editing is underway. The stills below are in Section order.
All shots by Jackie Jones (There are about 200 other shots of nearly everyone, some aren't rubbish, just email if you'd like one or two, if we caught you. We'll email them back - all free. admin@wgdfmcc.org.uk)
Ben's Press Report
The master regained his crown from the apprentice over 30 very dry sections and 85 miles around the Wye Valley.
ACU Western Youth Development Squad officer Simon Welch stayed focused all day to record the perfect score of no marks lost on observation, reversing last year's result when former YDS pupil Amory Falconer beat him.
The pair were both clean until Nannies Lane, where Amory strayed off line on section 22 and needed two dabs to make sure he got out of the narrow rocky gulley.
Dry weather for several weeks beforehand made this the driest Wyegate Trial for many years but it still took its toll on riders, most of whom took around nine hours to complete the course.
The dry sections meant there was little room for error, and the closest that Simon came to dropping a mark was at the third section in Forge Wood, where he managed to hold a front wheel washout and keep his feet up.
Simon and brother Matthew were both aboard Royal Enfields which have been in the family for many years, but are very different bikes - Simon's powered by a 250cc two stroke twin cylinder motor and Matthew's by a 500cc four stroke single cylinder. Matthew picked up the Pre 65 award on 11 marks lost.
The trail bike class was very closely fought, with seven riders on single mark scores. Enduro bike-mounted Ant Milliar only lost out to Amory on the furthest clean tie-breaker, as both dropped three marks in total. Glyn Moses was on for the class win until his trial unravelled at the final two sections - the last section's hillclimb had been stiffened to take some marks and Glyn was a victim with a maximum five mark loss.
Expecting many low scores, Clerk of the Course Ian Wixon included two timed special tests to use as ultimate tie-breakers, and Ant Milliar was best overall with second and first best times on the respective tests. Chris Morris claimed the fastest time on test 1, and Simon Welch somehow got the little old Enfield round for the second-best time on test two.
All this was done under the watchful eye of timekeeper Huw Watkins and his young assistant Theo- Ross Jones. He was one of several young officials helping the event run smoothly, including several from the ACU Western Youth Development Squad - all will be keen to ride the event one day.
The John Price Cup is awarded to the best working club member and Joe Evans-Luter enjoyed a day of observing and riding, with a particularly spirited ride up Craig-y-Master 2 on Ross Truszkowski's Sherco enduro bike.
Overall results
- Wyegate Cup - Simon Welch (Royal Enfield 250), 0 marks lost.
- Best trail bike, best under 25 - Amory Falconer (Gas Gas Pampera 250), 3.
- First class award (tie decided by furthest clean) - Ant Milliar (Sherco SE-F 300), 3.
- First class award - Stuart Thatcher (KTM Freeride 250), 4.
- EDP award (for best rider aged over 60) - Martin Gilbert (Gas Gas Pampera 320), 5.
- First class award - John Roberts (Gas Gas Pampera 250), 7.
- First class award - Ray Samways (Sherco X-Ride 290), 7 (tie decided by furthest clean).
- Glyn Moses (Scorpa T Ride 280), 8.
- Pre-65 Award - Matthew Welch (Royal Enfield Bullet 500), 11.
- Chris Morris (Husqvarna TE300) 12.
- John Price Cup - Joe Evans-Luter (Sherco SE300), 16.
- Haines & Co. Trophy for best non trail or pre 65: Ali Haigh (Montesa 4RT 260), 12.
Marshals
Many thanks you lot. Most of us know how much effort you put in. If you don't, then help your own local club run something like this and you find out and be really appreciated too.
Snippets
If you haven't already spotted them then there are a couple of Videos now available on the last couple of year's webpages. 2023, and 2024. You may gain some insight to what you are signing up for...
Neath Motor Club sent us a quick note to mention that the regs are now on ACU site for the Fred Rist LDT on 13th July event. "On -line" entries here. And, as previous years, with an initial closing date 6th May for 1st 50 entries, then open again if there's enough entries to run. So, get your entries in now please. 5 West glos are already sorted.
Bemrose Trials Club/North Derbyshire Youth YMCC are taking entries for the Derbyshire Dales LDT on 21st April, which is the weekend after the Wyegate. "On -line" entries here.
More info to come.
Section Statistics
The listing is in Classes, scroll on down.
Section | Score Incidence | Tot | |||||||
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No. | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | Marks | Sec. Name | Avg |
Trail Bike | |||||||||
1 | 45 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 19 | Forge Wood 1 | 0.37 |
2 | 26 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 52 | Forge Wood 2 | 1 |
3 | 40 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 36 | Forge Wood 3 | 0.71 |
4 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 80 | Forge Wood 4 | 1.57 |
5 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 39 | French Lane | 0.78 |
6 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 83 | Lords Grove 1 | 1.66 |
7 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 53 | Lords Grove 2 | 1.06 |
8 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 83 | Lords Grove 3 | 1.73 |
9 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 48 | Lords Grove 4 | 1 |
10 | 43 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | Lords Grove 5 | 0.25 |
11 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 49 | Village Farm | 1.02 |
12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 145 | New House Farm 1 | 3.02 |
13 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 20 | 9 | 0 | 124 | New House Farm 2 | 2.58 |
14 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 112 | New House Farm 3 | 2.33 |
15 | 39 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | The Graig | 0.42 |
16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 127 | Sunnyside | 2.7 |
17 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 58 | Tregare | 1.21 |
18 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 67 | Trostrey 1 | 1.4 |
19 | 41 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | Trostrey 2 | 0.31 |
20 | 34 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 29 | Craig-y-master 1 | 0.62 |
21 | 40 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 20 | Craig-y-master 2 | 0.43 |
22 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 64 | Nannies 1 | 1.64 |
23 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 27 | Nannies 2 | 0.69 |
24 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 40 | Dukes Farm 1 | 1.03 |
25 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 38 | Dukes Farm 2 | 0.97 |
26 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 98 | Pant-glas Steps 1 | 2.23 |
27 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 64 | Pant-glas Steps 2 | 1.45 |
28 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 33 | Madgetts | 0.85 |
29 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 48 | Mork | 1.23 |
30 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 71 | Forge Wood Hillclimb | 1.82 |
Rte Tot: | 781 | 155 | 89 | 192 | 169 | 0 | 1754 | 1.27 | |
Other Bikes | |||||||||
1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | Forge Wood 1 | 0.73 |
2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | Forge Wood 2 | 1.55 |
3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | Forge Wood 3 | 0.82 |
4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 20 | Forge Wood 4 | 1.82 |
5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | French Lane | 0.73 |
6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | Lords Grove 1 | 1.27 |
7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 | Lords Grove 2 | 1.45 |
8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 20 | Lords Grove 3 | 2 |
9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | Lords Grove 4 | 1 |
10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Lords Grove 5 | 0 |
11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 20 | Village Farm | 1.82 |
12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 45 | New House Farm 1 | 4.09 |
13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 32 | New House Farm 2 | 2.91 |
14 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 25 | New House Farm 3 | 2.27 |
15 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | The Graig | 0.82 |
16 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 20 | Sunnyside | 2 |
17 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | Tregare | 0.64 |
18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 | Trostrey 1 | 1.45 |
19 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | Trostrey 2 | 0.64 |
20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | Craig-y-master 1 | 0.82 |
21 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | Craig-y-master 2 | 0.55 |
22 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 20 | Nannies 1 | 2.22 |
23 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | Nannies 2 | 0.56 |
24 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Dukes Farm 1 | 0.67 |
25 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | Dukes Farm 2 | 0.56 |
26 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 22 | Pant-glas Steps 1 | 2.44 |
27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | Pant-glas Steps 2 | 1.56 |
28 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | Madgetts | 0.78 |
29 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mork | 0 |
30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 26 | Forge Wood Hillclimb | 2.89 |
Rte Tot: | 160 | 38 | 19 | 54 | 37 | 0 | 423 | 1.37 | |
Pre65 | |||||||||
1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Forge Wood 1 | 1 |
2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Forge Wood 2 | 0.75 |
3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Forge Wood 3 | 0 |
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Forge Wood 4 | 0.25 |
5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | French Lane | 0 |
6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Lords Grove 1 | 0.5 |
7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Lords Grove 2 | 0.25 |
8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Lords Grove 3 | 1 |
9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Lords Grove 4 | 0.75 |
10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Lords Grove 5 | 0.25 |
11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Village Farm | 0.25 |
12 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | New House Farm 1 | 1.75 |
13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | New House Farm 2 | 1.5 |
14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | New House Farm 3 | 1.5 |
15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The Graig | 0 |
16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Sunnyside | 0.5 |
17 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Tregare | 0.75 |
18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Trostrey 1 | 0.25 |
19 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Trostrey 2 | 0.25 |
20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Craig-y-master 1 | 0 |
21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Craig-y-master 2 | 0 |
22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Nannies 1 | 0.75 |
23 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Nannies 2 | 0.25 |
24 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Dukes Farm 1 | 0.25 |
25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Dukes Farm 2 | 0 |
26 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | Pant-glas Steps 1 | 1.75 |
27 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Pant-glas Steps 2 | 0.25 |
28 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Madgetts | 0.5 |
29 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Mork | 1 |
30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Forge Wood Hillclimb | 0.75 |
Rte Tot: | 81 | 24 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 68 | 0.57 |