Current events
April 2025
Tuesday, 1 April: Cappuccino ride.
10.30am: Environment Centre, Pier St, Swansea SA1 1RY. If you plan to join it please let Allyson know. (Her contact details are on the
Rides page.)
Monday, 7 April: U3A ride: Gower cicuit via Llanmadoc. Not to Glyncorrwg Mountain Centre as originally planned.
10.00am: Railway Inn, Killay.
Ride to Three Crosses and then along Cilonen road to Llanrhidian, on to Kennoxstone and Llanmadoc. Return via Landimore, Llanrhidian, Marsh road to Crofty, Penclawdd, Gowerton and Killay. There are some steep hills, notably the ascent to Three Crosses and Llanmadoc where we'll stop for refreshments at the Community Shop and Café. About 30 miles with 1800ft (550m) of ascent. We will take them very steadily!
Please let John know if you plan to join the ride. (email: jw.lambert100@gmail.com)
Tuesday, 8 April: Cappuccino ride.
10.30am: Environment Centre, Pier St, Swansea SA1 1RY. If you plan to join it please let Allyson know. (Her contact details are on the
Rides page.)
Tuesday, 15 April: Cappuccino ride.
10.30am: Blackpill (cycle path by the car park). If you plan to join it please let Allyson know. (Her contact details are on the
Rides page.)
Saturday, 19 Apri: Wheelrights Routes Group meeting. Note: meeting posptoned from 12 April.
10.00am in Ripples Café.
Providers
Wheelrights.
As noted on the
About us page the events which
Wheelrights provide include promotional rides and evening meetings.
Several evening meetings a year are held for our members. (Watch this page.) Talks are given at some. These meetings are open (and free). Detailed planning is done in our Campaigns and Routes sub-groups. Members who feel they can help are encouraged to join one of these groups.
Sustrans
Sustrans main role is to create such important things as the National Cycle Network and Safe Routes to Schools. Currently their focus is on upgrading the NCN and encouraging cycle commuting. These aims are shared by Wheelrights. We hope also to help Sustrans - as we have in previous years - by manning stalls or supporting other activities organised by them.
Cycling UK
They changed their name from "CTC" to "Cycling UK" in 2016. On 1 January 2008 the local CTC group ceased to be a
District Association and became the
Swansea and West Wales CTC Member Group. (This group decided in 2016 to retain "CTC" in their name.) The old sections disappeared so that the rides which used to be the responsibility of the sections are now coordinated by the one group. They take place on Sundays, Wednesdays and often on another day. Most are at a moderate pace between 30 and 50 miles and are graded 1-5. Most are in the range 2-3 with Grade 1 indicating an easy ride suitable for the less fit or inexperienced cyclist.
Wheelrights provide Grade 1 rides by means of our Cappuccino rides.
Cycling UK are active nationally in campaigning across the UK for better cycle provision. For information about the local rides visit the
CTC Swansea page on CUK's website.
Other
Other events gleaned from wherever are included on this page.