WHEELRIGHTS       The Swansea Bay   cycle campaign group

We campaign for improved facilities for cyclists in the Swansea Bay area. We help get people on bikes by, eg, providing beginners' classes; we also provide information about rides and other matters of interest to cyclists and their supporters. We are an umbrella organisation, separate from the CTC and Sustrans and other cycling groups, but whose activities we seek to both support and complement.

This site divides into five pages, accessed by clicking the buttons above. They contain the following:
About us provides a full statement of our aims, a potted history and how we can be contacted.
Links gives the websites of other cycle campaign groups, provides links to local organisations and the contact details of local cycle shops.
Various is mainly news: the latest happenings in the Swansea Bay area that we are aware of. It is also the page from which you can view/download our Newsletters and other documents of potential interest.
Events starts with some information about the providers of events. The events - mainly rides but also meetings - are then listed month by month in chronological order. One feature is a monthly summary of local CTC rides. For ease of reference these fit on to a single A4 sheet.
Join us. This is a form which you can print out, fill in by hand (we are not set up to do this electronically) and send to the address given together with a cheque for your annual sub.

The pictures on this home page illustrate our activities which range from support for the CTC and Sustrans to matters of wider interest.

The picture shows the group assembling at Blackpill on Saturday 15 September for the ride along the main road to the centre of Swansea to promote the forthcoming European Mobility Week (16-22 Sept.) They carried plackards on their backs for passing motorists to see.

The pictures above show on the left the Sustrans Millenium sign at Blackpill, Swansea, put up by the Council in 2005, in the centre Sustrans Rangers painting a sign on NCN 47 north of Llanelli, and on the right a stick-on destination sign on NCN 4 between Gowerton and Loughor. Those below show on the left the servicing facilities for the hard working volunteers who helped build a short section of cycle/pedestrian/horse path near Penclawdd in August 2006 and on the right a beginner being taught to ride at one of Wheelrights classes.

The pictures below illustrate in the left two pictures the cycle storage in British trains (both Scotrail) and on the right that in a German IC train. There is room for no more than three bikes in the former, either suspended from the ceiling hooks or, as shown in the lower picture, supported on a bracket. There were about 16 bikes in the German train compartment, which as can be seen was full.