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On your bike for Swindon Cycle Fest

Swindon Cycle Festival
takes place on 17 July
from 10am, at the County
Ground Athletics Track.
The fun, free event
is for all the family to
celebrate cycling in
Swindon.
Hosted by Mitchell
Cycles, the festival will
give you the chance
to try your hand at a
Shoretrax mountain bike
course, a kid’s cyclo-cross
course, and various led
rides for all the family.
People can bring their
bikes along for a free There will also be a bouncy castle,
checks from the mechanics and face-painting, kids races and plenty
there will be security marking, of delicious food and drink.
a bike jumble sale, maintenance Visitors can also ‘Come and Try’
tutorials, and lots of bikes from bowls with the Swindon Bowls Club
electric to adapted ones to have a next to the Athletics Track.
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