Details & FAQ

Tregaron Freeride is a grass roots event organised by Brianne Collective.

Supported by the local pub (Y-Talbot) and by Pencefn Feeds Ltd who have been kind enough to let us hire both their road and a camp ground just 100 meters  from Tregaron's Chinese restaurant and pub.

The Basic Plan:

A weekend of skating with loop road uplifts at Pencefn Drysgol lane in Tregaron. Which means that there will be continuous runs, less time waiting for buses, less time waiting to do a run and ultimately more runs! A similar format to what Vandem Freeride in Exeter has been in the past.

The road is perfectly surfaced with 2 hairpins and fast straights, ideal for beginners and pro riders alike. You can try to grip and rip the whole track, get you pre drifts down or even do some no hands down runs, its up to you!

We are hoping to run some races on Sunday, including the Welsh Championships. But if you do not wish to race, the track will be open for freeride, after the heats have gone down (this means the number of runs will be slightly lower).

The Real Talk:

Price : £65 per person


What you get :

• A weekend of closed road Riding on a fantastic, well protected course. Hay bales and medics on and, any other essential protection.

• Loop uplifts :) :) :) We have managed to find a loop road that will allow us to pack in as many runs as your legs will allow. A 2.6 mile loop allows you to skate the hill at the same time as other riders descend leading to a higher amount of runs per day than we had at Brianne Freeride last year (which was still at least 20 runs per day) 

• Meals: We have managed to have food provided by the Y Talbot Pub (Y Talbot Website). The Talbot Pub is only 100 metres from our camp ground and they will be kindly providing us with an evening meal indoors in the Pubs function room on Saturday and a Breakfast there on Sunday morning. The Pub has kindly set aside for us the use of a 110 man function room where rain or shine we will be warm and dry. 

• Toilets: There will be toilets located at both the camp site and track.

• Camping: We have our camping site just behind the pay and display car park in Tregaron. It is a minutes walk from the track (the track sits right behind it) and is right by the pub and local Chinese Take-away. You can camp on both Friday and Saturday so for those travelling long distances to the event we would advise arriving Friday night so you are ready to ride early Saturday morning. 

•  For those Welsh riders visiting us this year we are proud to have The Infamous Welsh Racing Championships (WRC) at Tregaron Freeride this year. Hugely popular with a record number of entrants last year. This year we hope more Welsh riders will enter this battle to become The King of Downhill Skateboarding in Wales. The trophy will be a hand carved Welsh dragon on wheels, kindly donated by the Hughes/Byrne family.

• Dont Fancy Camping? the Y Talbot pub has Rooms available. With excellent food and Beer (Trust us we decided that for "event testing" we had to go and eat there) Your stay there will not be disappointing. To book a room go to their website http://ytalbot.com/.

Programme:

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FRIDAY: 

17:00 -  Campsite open you can set up your tents and relax.

20:00 -  Registration and riders meeting. We hope to get as much as possible done on the friday evening so that we can start as soon as possible on Saturday morning.

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SATURDAY:

08:45 - Registration opens again for anyone that arrived late the previous evening

09:00 - Track opens for AMRAYS (as many runs as you survive) all day.  

13:00 - 14:00 -  Lunch brake (its more for our lovely marshals and uplift drivers than riders)

18:00 - Function Room of the Y talbot for Dinner and Pints.

20:00 -  Race registration and riders meeting

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SUNDAY:

08:30 - Heats announced

09:00 - Track opens for  AMRAYS

11:00 - Race to qualify begins. (Freeriders go after each round)

13:00 - 14:00 -  Lunch brake

14:00 - Racing continues

17:00 Prizes and then back to reality. 

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Race Format:

There will be 4 person heats for every category, which will be Open, Womens, Juniors, Ludge and Welsh Championships.

We will be running the same format as Hog Hill, for race to qualify, with tape being attached to each riders helmet and a number given at the finish line, depending on what position you finished. We hope to get the majority of the race to qualify done before lunch.

After the points have been calculated we will then move on to a knock out stage for the Open, Womens, Juniors, Ludge and Welsh Championships with the top 32 from each category from the race to qualify, qualifying for the final rounds. This can mean that there will be people in more than one category, at other events this has caused problems, but because we have a loop road system in place we hope that this can be avoided.

We hope to see as many people as possible there  Thanks and See you on the Hill

The Collective