http://chng.it/dm48D6sb8d

Go sign this petition. In a year where the rich and influential have denied the upgrading of the existing open air seafront facility, we are now in a situation where the council are denying change of use to an indoor skate/BMX/scooter facility. It's an empty unit on an industrial estate, better it has something inside that benefits the community for their mental and physical heath. Perhaps if it were a wine bar or another car sales then it wouldn't be a problem.

In the past month at the Olympic games, we have won 5 medals in BMX and skateboarding, British Cycling have announced new plans and funding for BMX freestyle. Yet our council are prepared to deny us a facility that could be open within a fortnight. We have an Olympic squad member born and living in Swansea but he has to travel to Cardiff and further afield to train.

Surely the second city of Wales would like to compete with our capital for facilities or are we once again to fall short (literally in the case of our "national pool") . What will it take for the so called leader of the council to intervene? There's a long history of this council and the so called leaders only seeming to do what's best for them and their cronies. For once can they try and do best for the community as a whole? Do I have to take up golf so I can rub shoulders with people of influence? Is freemasonry the way forward? I implore the people who supposedly care for our communities and those who care for our physical and mental health, share this, sign this petition. Lobby your councillor,MP and AM, get your voice heard. Welsh Labour Swansea Council Tonia Antoniazzi MP Welsh Assembly The Labour Party

Photo credit: BBC News

We have to revise the hours for a couple of days due to only one of us being able to work, new hours for the next 7 days as follows:-

Wednesday 4th-------10 til 4pm

Thursday 5th----------10 til 1pm

Friday 6th-------------10 til 4pm

Saturday 7th----------10 til 4pm

Sunday 8th------------CLOSED (as usual)

Monday 9th-----------10 til 1pm

Tuesday 10th----------10 til 4pm

Any changes to these hours will be posted here and the situation will be reviewed on tuesday to see where we are.

Please be patient, if you have an appointment booked for any of those days then please try to bring it in as near to 10am as possible.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will only be open from 10am til 11am today (21st January).

Sorry for any inconvenience.

 Christmas and New Year Opening times

25th CLOSED

26th CLOSED

27th CLOSED

28th CLOSED

29th CLOSED

30th CLOSED

31st CLOSED

1st CLOSED

2nd Open 10 til 4

3rd CLOSED

Monday onwards as per usual , Monday to Saturday 10 til 4 until further notice

CORONAVIRUS OPENING TIMES

WE ARE OPEN

PLEASE KNOCK THE DOOR AND WAIT BY THE SIGN

OPENING HOURS MONDAY TO SATURDAY10am UNTIL 4pm

NO HIRE BIKES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

   We are very busy and only have one member of staff working on each day.  Please be patient and we will get you on the road as soon as
possible. There are delays getting parts so this may delay your repair.

   If you are ringing 01792 466944 to book and we don't answer immediately then leave it 5 minutes and try again.

Many thanks and stay safe.

Coronavirus opening etc

WE ARE

OPEN

The shop will be open in line with current government guidelines. Obviously there are restrictions with regards to social distancing, one customer in the shop at any time please, we have a line that you should not cross both for your safety and ours.

If you are bringing a bike in then please can you ensure its clean.

We have card facilities so that's the preferred payment option.  We can take PayPal as well (call to arrange) if you are paying with cash then please contact us so you know the correct amount.

Please phone 01792 466944 to book an appointment, or text 07546 188073 with queries (better to ring the shop number)  Please be patient, we will do our best to help keep you rolling.

Opening hours will be restricted, as above phone to see when to come in.  Currently we will be here between 10am and 4pm, but please realise we will only have one of us in the shop at any given time and our health is as important as yours, If you turn up without contacting first then we may not be available.

Please phone (01792 466944-preferred option, or text 07546 188073 - last resort)

We are not hiring bikes at this time

Christmas and New Year opening Hours 2019

Here we go again :) Christmas and New Year have snuck upon us.
We are closed a couple of days and open for short hours for a few, see below. I'd recommend phoning first if you have something important you want doing to both ensure we are open and that we have space to do so.

25th Christmas Day      CLOSED

26th Boxing Day          CLOSED

27th Friday                    CLOSED

  28 Saturday               11-4pm(ish)

29th Sunday                 CLOSED

30th Monday                  11-4pm

31st Tuesday                   10 til 1ish

1st   NEW YEARS DAY   CLOSED

then back to normalish hours

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our customers

Swansea Skatepark

An application to replace the pathetic half pipe in West Cross has been submitted to the Swansea Planning Department.

Swansea desperately needs a proper concrete skatepark.  We are severely lacking in facilities compared to other places in Wales and the UK.

However we need you to show support for the project.  Please follow the blue portal link below and post a comment or just tick the "support" button to help us achieve the goal of a brilliant new skatepark which will be accessible to everyone. You don't have to live in Swansea to show your support.

Do it NOW!!!!!!

Maverick Skateparks is at Visit Swansea Bay, Mumbles and Gower.

9 November at 10:37 · Swansea · 

🗳️ The Skate Park Mumbles planning application is now LIVE. Please take 5mins to go show some support for this project and post a comment on the portal here: bit.ly/2Q3gB7R

Merry Christmas all

our opening ours over Christmas are :-

Christmas Day  CLOSED

(yep we are not there)

Boxing Day (turkey sandwich day) CLOSED

(too busy stuffing leftovers in)

Thursday 27th CLOSED

(too busy recovering from the left overs)

Friday 28th 10ish til about 4ish

(depending on the weather and how much exercise we need)

Saturday 29th 10ish til 4-5ish

Sunday 30th  CLOSED

(its Sunday we are always shut)

Monday 31st Open but from 10 til we've had a take away from somewhere

(we have a small keg of squirrel beer as well)

New Years Day CLOSED

(hangovers etc)

Wednesday 2nd Jan 2019 9ish til 5.30

Then we are all back to normal(ish)

Mumbles needs a skatepark

Shop Dogs

Both shop dogs were in residence the other day. Dogs are always welcome at the shop 🐶

PHONES

ITS FIXED

(Thanks Virgin- although If you hadn't have broken it in the first place eh?)

Thanks for your patience

a broken phone earlier :)

Blimey, almost a whole year since our last post. Well then since then we've ridden another winter DH Series and a whole Summer DH series, managed not to embarrass myself in both series so that's a bonus. A raft of reasonable finishes( mostly top 10s) for Chris Evans in Vets so pleased with that. Gwyn Webb in Seniors broke into the top 10 with a 9th at the 3rd round of the summer series and hasn't stopped telling everyone yet.
Pictures will hopefully follow

Forest Of Dean Summer DH Series

Final results for the Forest Of Dean Summer DH series are out. Chris raced in the Veterans class and after doing 3 out of the 4 races he finished 4th overall, very very pleased with that.
Here's a couple of photos from races....

 Round 4 (looks like I'm stationary and just leaning ready to fall over!)

Round 1 

Thanks to the organisers for a great series, I'll definately be back next year

http://www.mijracing.co.uk/

The centre for the food and support

http://pedalabikeaway.co.uk/

the uplift for a brilliant service (all year round not just the races)

http://www.flyupdownhill.co.uk/

and finally the volunteers who make the trails happen (go on, give em a donation)

http://www.deantrailvolunteers.com/home/4584141792

VOLT Electric Bikes

We are proud to be the local dealer of VOLT electric bikes in Swansea. VOLT have an amazing range of bikes to suit every cyclist and we keep a few of the most popular in stock so you can come and test ride a bike before buying from their website.  Your chosen bike is then delivered to our shop where we build it up ready for you to ride away.

All VOLT bikes come with a 2 year warranty and all electrical and technological components are maintenance free, which means you can bring your bike to us for servicing just like any other bike.

The Kensington step through was recently featured in the latest promotional video from the famous Joes Ice Cream Parlour (which is only a few doors down from our shop!) so check out the video to see the bike in action, and you can enter their competition to win a lifetimes supply of Joes Ice Cream! Don't forget us if you do :)

https://www.facebook.com/173417756010414/videos/1279962945355884/

Racing Again :)

I've signed up for another one , this weekend is the opening round of the MIJ Downhill series at The Forest of Dean. Similar format to the 661/Naked Racing Mini DH (not actual naked racing though, it was winter and there's no way I'd be starkers in the middle of winter).

Here's the website MIJ RACING

Come along and laugh at us or maybe even join the racing.

Those are from the 2014/15 Naked Racing Mini DH

Easter Opening Times

We are taking a bit of time off over Easter, so here are our opening times.

Good Friday 25th - CLOSED
Saturday 26th - 10am - 5pm
Sunday 27th - CLOSED
Monday 28th - CLOSED

Christmas and New Year Opening Hours

Here we go, this is when we are here and when we are not. We hope everyone had a splendid Christmas and we wish you all a Happy New Year.  Thank you for your continued support and business.  Heres to 2016!

Thursday 24th 9am - 1.30pm

Friday 25th Closed

Saturday 26th Closed

Sunday 27th Closed

Monday 28th Closed

Tuesday 29th 10am - 4.30pm

Wednesday 30th 10am - 4.30pm

Thursday 31st 10am til 2ish

Friday 1st Closed

Saturday 2nd 10am - 5pm

Back to normal(ish) from 4th January

Trail Dog

You may remember a while ago we added Molly the collie dog to the staff :)

Finally took her out for a ride over the weekend. Little bit nervous but went well in the end.

Here she is not going particularly quick along a section on the Wall trail at Afan.

If you're at a loose end then West Wales Trails are opening their bike park to the public tomorrow.

A short promo video of our new bike park produced by State of flow films for Carms RDP grants, btw I chopped it out of the full video of grant projects hence the slightly shonky ending.
Posted by West Wales Trails on Friday, 24 April 2015