Phill Gardner - RIP - 18th January 2026
This page is under construction - there are more pics to come in the gallery below and links to some video of Phill in action too, so come back again please.
Funeral Arrangements
The funeral of Phill Gardner will take place on Tuesday, February 17th at 1:30pm.
All of his friends in motorcycle sport are welcome to attend at Forest of Dean Crematorium, Yew Tree Brake, Speech House Rd, Cinderford GL14 3HU, then join his family afterwards at The Speech House hotel nearby.
His family would welcome his motorcycling friends to the funeral and then Speech House. Dress code is casual.
We bring you sad news that Phill Gardner passed away on 18th Jan 2026. He was competing in the Western Centre Trials Championship.
The ACU Western's press release is repeated here:
ACU Western and Stroud Valley MC are deeply saddened at the passing of Phill Gardner.
He died following a medical episode at SVMC's Bill Peters Trial on Sunday, January 18th.
He was 57 and his presence, friendly nature and riding expertise will be very much missed. His death is not believed to have been linked to his participation in the trial. Phill was an Expert level national enduro rider, had ridden up to Clubman Expert level in trials, and was a longstanding supporter of ACU Western trials and off-road motorcycle sport in general.
The club and the centre are very grateful to the first-aid trained volunteers, and numerous emergency service personnel for doing everything they could for Phill. The trial was cancelled immediately after Phill became unwell, and the club and centre would also like to thank every rider and official for making the work of the emergency responders as straightforward as possible.
The condolences of everyone in the centre and the club are with Phill's family and friends at this very difficult time.
As a recognition of just some of Phill's achievements. Over the next few days I'll try to collect links to Trials he'd ridden and tons of mentions about Enduros too.
Phill was a West Glos member from his Enduro days back in 2007 when he rode West Glos' first Hare & Hounds event in 2007. To put it mildly he thrashed everyone else, lapping all bar Steve Biddle who was a couple of minutes down on Phill at the end.
For now, here are a few links to events he'd ridden with us (more links to come... and pics too.):
- WG's Chicken Farm Hare & Hounds 16Jan2011 (Phill's No. 78 and on the Videos.).
- Chicken Run H&H 7Sep2008.
- Chicken Run H&H 16Aug2009 (Phill's No. ? and on the Videos.).
- Chicken Farm H&H 18Jul2010 (Phill's No. ? and on the Videos.).
- WG's Chicken Run Hare & Hounds 7Sep2008 (Phill's No. ? and on the Videos.).
Some links:
Chicken Run HH Enduro at Old Hendre 2Sep2007, and in 2008.
Click to step through the shots.
