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160                <h1 class="gh-article-title is-title">Welcome to CTC Swale Cycling</h1>
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164            <figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://ctcswale.org.uk/content/images/2025/12/IOW-ALL-1037w.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="960" height="540" srcset="https://ctcswale.org.uk/content/images/size/w600/2025/12/IOW-ALL-1037w.jpg 600w, https://ctcswale.org.uk/content/images/2025/12/IOW-ALL-1037w.jpg 960w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></figure><p>We are a member group of the national Cycling UK club, representing around 70,000 members across the UK. Our ride leaders put on a full programme of rides during the week and weekends in the local area, covering a range of distances and difficulties, from easy social rides to full day long distance rides. See the <a href="https://ctcswale.org.uk/ride-list" rel="noreferrer">ride list page</a> for details of our rides, or <a href="https://ctcswale.org.uk/contact-us/" rel="noreferrer"><strong>contact us</strong></a><strong> </strong>with any other enquiries.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><a href="https://ctcswale.org.uk/contact-us/"><img src="https://ctcswale.org.uk/content/images/2025/02/envelope.webp" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="63" height="54"></a></figure><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><a href="https://www.cyclinguk.org/"><img src="https://ctcswale.org.uk/content/images/2025/05/cuk-logo2.webp" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="1093" height="491" srcset="https://ctcswale.org.uk/content/images/size/w600/2025/05/cuk-logo2.webp 600w, https://ctcswale.org.uk/content/images/size/w1000/2025/05/cuk-logo2.webp 1000w, https://ctcswale.org.uk/content/images/2025/05/cuk-logo2.webp 1093w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></a></figure>
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