The 10th annual Ales Trem Hard Enduro kicks-off the 2025 international season in mainland Europe this weekend, January 25-26 – Can Wade Young ready to defend his title against the French Sherco army, Jarvis and Lettenbichler?

Based in Ales, just north of Montpellier, France, the 24MX Ales Trem has become an established international hard enduro race running for 10 years now. 

Former winners include Graham Jarvis, Jonny Walker, Mario Roman and most recently in ’24 Wade Young who put one in the eye of his former employers Sherco (who replaced him in the factory team with Teo Kabakchiev just weeks earlier) taking the win on a largely standard GASGAS – a bike which then built his own team around and went on to claim second in the Hard Enduro World Championship upon.

2024 race highlights

Mani Lettenbichler will join Jarvis, Roman, Young, Kabakchiev, Alfredo Gomez, Sonny Goggia and Michele Bosi and around 600 riders entered in the two-day event.

The programme includes a Friday fan zones ahead of a Saturday prologue in Pole Mechanique, 10 minutes from the main paddock in the town of Ales itself.

The main event on Sunday is notorious for its long riding day. Pro riders aim for three laps beginning at 10am with cut-off times for the other classes as more severe laps two and three begin. The final hour or more can be in the dark with a conclusion around 5pm. Like many of the French Classic enduros, it is a long day in the saddle and just six riders completed the course in 2024 with Young and Roman separated by seconds.

More info via the Ales Trem Facebook page or in the event programme here.