Current events
April 2026
Friday, 3 April (and thereafter on first Friday of each month): A Critical Mass ride.
7.30pm in Singleton park. Click
here for details
. (Scroll to "Posters for the Critical Mass rides".)
Note that these rides are not organised by
Wheelrights but by Jai Fear with (we understand)
Cycling UK insurance.
Monday, 13 April: U3A ride to the Cwtch Corner Café, Clydach.
10.00am in the Railway Inn. Resurfacing of NCR4 between Duvant and the Railway Inn is now complete.
We will ride down to Blackpill, along the seafront to SA1 and then up the Tawe Valley on NCR43 to the Cwtch Corner Café. A round trip of 24 miles with a modest 240ft (174m) of up.
Please let John know if you plan to join the ride. (email: jw.lambert100@gmail.com)
Saturday, 25 April: Wheelrights Routes Group meeting. Informal coffee meeting. Formal meeting postponed.
10.00am in Ripples Café, West Cross.
May 2026
Fridays, 8 and 15 May: Free Bike Marking in Swansea Railway Station (Courtesy TfW).
10.00 - 14.00 on both days.
Simply turn up with your bike and get it marked so that it can be identified if lost or stolen.
Monday, 11 May: U3A ride to the Super Sprinter Cafe, Cynheidre via the Swiss Valley.
Details to come.
June 2026
Monday, 1 June: U3A ride from Carmarthen to Llandeilo.
This will follow the new cycle track up the Towy Valley. Train, car (or bike!) to Carmarthen. Details to come.
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 Routes sub-group. Members who feel they can help are encouraged to join this group.
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust
They changed their name from "Sustrans" to "Walk Wheel Cycle Trust" on 30 September 2025. Their 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 them - as we have in previous years - by manning stalls or supporting some of their other activities.
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.