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Resources on Riding Skills, Laws, and Safety for People Who Bike
Click any link below to access Bicycling Monterey’s primary tips about riding skills, bike laws, and safety. California CA Bike Law Summary (8.5 x 11 flyer) Leyes de ciclismo de California (bilingual, 8.5 x 11 flyer) BIKING ON SIDEWALKS, plus examples of ordinances around Monterey County ANDAR EN BICICLETA EN LAS ACERAS además de ejemplos de…
Kiddie Capers and Colmo del Rodeo (Night Parade), Salinas
The annual California Rodeo week is a great time to bike or bike-and-ride. Be sure to brush up on bike laws and safety tips, along with special tips to optimize your fun biking Salinas. We’ve got the 411!
Bicycle touring / bikepacking through Monterey County: Pacific Coast Bike Route and other routes
We met the above two bikepacking individuals in city of Monterey in June 2026. Learn a bit about them in Bike Buzz: 17th Anniversary edition. Above: Bikepacking is also second nature to Rob Smolund, who we met biking Garden Road, Monterey in October 2024. Rob has biked from Oakland to San Diego eleven times since…
Alex Akins and Cameron Stewart: Monterey County teens competing in Tour of Ireland
Short link to this post: http://bit.ly/AlexAndCam “I never took the other sports I played seriously to this extent. Riding bikes is so much more fun.” —Alex Akins, a Monte Vista Christian School student from Monterey, quoted in “Cycling: Peninsula pair headed to Tour of Ireland” by John Devine in the Monterey Herald, 7/3/18. Learn more…
California Wildfire Prevention — including on the Big Sur Coast
California has an increasingly long wildfire season. See current fires: https://fire.ca.gov/incidents/. Please help prevent wildfires in the Monterey Bay Region and elsewhere! Tips on equipment use, debris burning, campfire safety and more at http://www.preventwildfireca.org Take the Big Sur Pledge, http://bigsurpledge.org, and visit the Big Sur Visitor Guide for campfires info and much more: http://www.bigsurvisitorguide.com/campfires “’Safe-and-sane’ fireworks are not…
Lighthouse Avenue, Monterey: Bike parking, riding tips, and more
Sometimes good things do come to those who wait: like no more parking hassles on Lighthouse Avenue, Monterey! Soon after the first businesses on Lighthouse joined the HER Helmet Thursdays Project in 2009, we began advocating for bicycle parking racks on Lighthouse. Lack of bicycle parking on that street was a gap in the bike friendliness…
Race Night on the Row and other Cannery Row tips
Street party tips, great places to go for lighter crowds, and more for Moto GP weekend. Bike tips too, of course! Biking is a great way to get around and skip traffic snarls and parking hassles on this fun, crowded weekend.