Bike Week – Summary of Activities for Monterey County

2013 Monterey Bay region Tri-County Bike Week / Bike Month activities.

For Monterey County,

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Sweet! More reasons to bike.

April 4 – May 15 – Rusty, dusty bike? They’re making it easy: $10 bicycle safety check and minor tune-up from local bike shops. Get rolling!
May 9-15 – Bike to Worship—to church, mosque, synagogue, or other place of worship
May 9-15 – Dress-Up Challenge – Ride “dressed up” one or more days this week (for prizes, submit photo by May 14) – Prizes
May 10 – Bike vs Car Challenge
May 10 – Salinas – Bike to City Council meeting
May 11 – Twilight Ride at Laguna Seca – free helmets to first 100 kids ages 18 and younger
May 12 – Bike to Work/School Day, with free breakfasts – (for prizes, submit entry by May 27) – Prizes
May 12 – HER Helmet Thursdays discounts (year-round price breaks on Thursdays, countywide, just because you ride a bike!)
May 14 – Bike to the beach. No official Bike Week activity today? Keep yourself biking! Help Save Our Shores clean up, and get a free ticket to Monterey Bay Aquarium, valid June 4-5, as a thank you.
May 15 –Morning Ride with Velo Club Monterey – 8 a.m.
May 15 – Bike with Seaside Mayor Felix Bachofner – 9:30 a.m.
May 15 – Seaside PAL Bike Fair – Bike rodeo, live entertainment, and more bikey happenings – free helmets to first 250 kids ages 18 and younger
May 15 – Recreational Ride from Seaside to Monterey with City of Monterey Traffic Engineer Rich Deal – 4:30 p.m.

To volunteer with Seaside PAL’s May 15 event, contact Tina Rosa of Seaside Police Department and PAL; 831-760-0967 or trosa [AT] ci.seaside.ca.us – This event also celebrates that the Amgen Tour de California comes to Seaside May 19.
To volunteer with Dress-Up Challenge, the HER Helmet Thursdays project, or other bike advocacy activities, contact Mari Lynch of Bicycling Monterey; phone 831-375-6278 or email Mari.
To help with TAMC’s Bike Week activities, contact Kaki Cheung, Transportation Planner; phone 831-775-4413 or kaki@tamcmonterey.org

This post was published on 11 May 2011. One or more changes last made to this post on 23 November 2013.