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Bike Buzz: May 2019 — History of Bicycling Monterey

May 2024 was Bicycling Monterey’s 15th anniversary. The post below, written on the 10th anniversary, provides a brief history of how Bicycling Monterey got started. 

Special thanks to a Santa Cruz County bike advocacy leader for his acknowledgement of this work: https://bikemonterey.org/about/about-this-blog/what-monterey-bay-bike-advocates-say

Looking back:

A summary of Bicycling Monterey’s 10-year history

compiled by the founder

Background: My first time to bicycle in Monterey County was when I biked here from Santa Cruz, where I lived 1976-1981. As I tell in “Falling in Love with Bicycling,” I’d biked since childhood, but Santa Cruz was where biking really won my heart. After moving to my present address in rural Monterey County in 1981, I continued to bike. But for many years, especially when my son and daughter were young, biking was most often limited to our own rural neighborhood or to the coastal trail. When I returned to biking regularly for transportation, and experienced again what a joy that is, I wanted to make it easier for others to bike here.

Photo at the top of this post was shot by Mari at Ciclovía King City, April 14, 2019.

This post was published on 1 May 2019. One or more changes last made to this post on 22 July 2024.

  1. What a great advocate – untiring, at that – for bicycling you have become in these past ten years, Mari. Your voice is important.

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