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 six 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.
Local rides contains descriptions of local rides. Most of these complement shorter descriptions published in the S. Wales Evening Post.
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 pictures above show on the left Autumn colours in the Clyne Valley and on the right a Sustrans milepost near Ystradgynlais which has recently (Autumn 2008) been painted by a Sustrans Ranger.
The one below on the left shows the bench carved out of oak in memory of Bob Burn, one of the founders of Wheelrights. It is located on the North Gower path near the Sea Gardens restaurant. That on the right shows a beginner learning to ride at one of Wheelrights classes.

We also support the CTC. They are perceived to be for the 'serious' cyclist, but as the pictures below (taken on various of their rides) indicate they are not that serious. Indeed they have lots of fun on these twice weekly rides which vary in difficulty from 'easy', through 'medium' to 'hard'. Their rides programme is given on the Events page.

The pictures below show on the left a velo stand in Paris and on the right a boulevard near the Gard du Noir where all modes of transport are accommodated. Will the "European Boulevard" planned for Swansea's Oystermouth Road be something like this?