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This post features a summary of new Bicycling Monterey posts, plus some updated ones, since the last notification to subscribers went out. May 2018 starts Bicycling Monterey’s 10th year.

At the bottom of the post is a list of some Bike Calendar highlights—posts about meetings, activities, or events taking place in Monterey County. Among those are Monterey County’s world-renowned 4-Day Celebration of Cycling on April 19-22, the 28th annual Sea Otter Classic; May 1-31 Bike Month; and more.

Between the posts and calendar highlights is a section of microblogging. What’s that? A sampling of tweets from Bicycling Monterey and the HER Helmet Thursdays Project. Many of the tweets include information not found elsewhere on bikemonterey.org.

Among the tweets, you’ll find a hot-off-the-press alert about the bike shop pictured below.

Happy Springtime!

New and updated posts on

the Bicycling Monterey website 

Laguna Seca Racetrack — home of world-renowned bicycle, motorcycle, and automobile events — renamed WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca

Youth Who Bike: Dani

“Social benefits of cycling” — for people who bike, and for everyone

Biking in the Rain

March 24: March for Our Lives – Monterey

Carmel Confusion, Part II: Rights of people who bike

City of Monterey Climate Action Steps: Exploring commercial pedicabs

Monterey City Council considers commercial pedicab operations

FAQs: Are bicycle helmets required in Cali?

Going in circles, just trying to find answers to your bicycling questions?

Salinas: East Market Street Safe Routes to School Project, including Protected Bike Lanes

https://bikemonterey.org/68-spc-vilmar-galarza-hernandez-funeral-and-procession-east-salinas.html

Signs of a Bicycling-Friendly Monterey County

Remembering Bicycling Victims of Violence, 2012-2018: Juan Angel Perez, and Señores Amezcua, Cardenas, Martinez, Ramirez, Sanchez, Suniga, Trujillo

Safe Routes to School — Monterey County

Vote! “Democracy is not a spectator sport.”

https://bikemonterey.org/cycle-chic-monterey.html

Bicycling Pebble Beach

AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am week

Video: Bike Date in Monterey County – “Learn to Love Again” by Taylor Kropp

Microblogging

Below is a sampling of Bicycling Monterey’s and HER Helmet Thursdays Project’s recent tweets.

Not familiar with tweets? Be aware that sometimes a related photo or other image appears before the tweet’s text when the tweet is displayed below. Other times it appears after the tweet. Also, for a fuller picture, click on any tweet (including because sometimes an image doesn’t appear at all until you click on the tweet).

A few tweets also have “threads.” In those cases, click on the tweet and the “thread” will usually appear. That is, you’ll then see the full “conversation.” If you’re accessing via the Twitter website, or perhaps at other times, you may need to click on the tweet and then click on “show this thread” at the bottom. Here’s an example of a tweet with a thread:

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/971510711640719360

If you find the Twittersphere frustrating, just skip it. Bicycling Monterey’s founder has mixed feelings about online social media. It can be helpful, and it can introduce you to wonderful new people. It can also be a time-sucker, full of trolls, and full of tech glitches. (For example, the glitchiness of Twitter’s well-intended but error-riddled efforts to clean up the Twittersphere resulted in legit tweeters such as Carmel’s Harrison Library and Bicycling Monterey caught in the learning process for Twitter’s tech experts.)

As for Facebook, Bicycling Monterey’s founder was never active there until December 2015. The reasons she chose not to be on Facebook (including, e.g., filter bubble) have only grown. See Bicycling Monterey’s contact page for various social media accounts and related advisories.

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/970134404537315328

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/970895388004659200

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/970872526275358720

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/967993622292398080

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/970923183372099584

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/974037510010544128

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/974167860170731521

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/974456459701379072

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/976625979572436992

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/971847918595448832

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/962839713336893440

Webpage image © Sea Otter Classic, Inc. – http://www.seaotterclassic.com/riding-your-bike/ section.

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/976629152643039232

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/975633440581316608

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/975610103687598081

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/974063011865309185

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/974062241434689537

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/974060910108004352

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/973142768720560128

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/972986442296119296

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/972245833901993984

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/972003375947526145

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/956633366052220928

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/971811934986166272

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/975512873211277312

DIRECTORY: Monterey County Bicycling Resources and Bike Community Leaders

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/971227308248805376

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/977058245217939456

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/970896954740768768

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/970899915663581184

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/970906633629925376

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/970928309734318081

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/970402586435006464

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/970115767617253378

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/968950572064817152

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/968541416912707585

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/968295675946389504

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/965370763208376320

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/966413345736638464

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/964895289323667456

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/965462081540468741

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/965825207154884608

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/963291125262909440

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/963500276215726080

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/974379767897059328

Found "Pedal Power" touted on the official @VisitCarmel tourism site (https://t.co/nZO9QgKXul). They might want to weigh in on policy actions that make Carmel bike UNfriendly & discourage bike tourists (who spend $40 more/day on avg than others). #biketravel #ttot https://t.co/5daRhjygZ2

— Barb Chamberlain (@BarbChamberlain) March 16, 2018

http://twitter.com/HERHelmetThurs/status/974786060541509632

http://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/969098374975651840

Bike Calendar Highlights

Monterey County Bike Calendar highlights below include new or updated posts: