Bike Anywhere
Protected Bike Lanes / Class 4 Separated Bikeways / Cycle Tracks
January 26, 2022 update: “Currently, the United States is 40 years behind peer countries in Europe when it comes to developing bike networks with bike facilities for people of all ages and abilities….With ‘Benchmarking Bike Networks’ we want to give advocates for better biking another tool to ensure streets in their community are designed in…
Video: “Stay in Your Lane” – Inspiration from Blackstone Bicycle Works
If you’ve followed Bicycling Monterey for years, you may remember that Blackstone Bicycle Works of Chicago is among those who played an inspirational role in Bicycling Monterey’s founding of the Monterey County Youth Center bike education program. Youth Center bike shed, on one of my days sorting used parts. Now Blackstone Bicycle Works has collaborated with Rhymefest…
Earth Pilgrim in Monterey County and beyond: Jody Emerson Quintana
Update: Jody no longer maintains her Earth Pilgrim blog, so all links to it have been removed from this post. We are otherwise leaving this post intact. California native Jody Emerson Quintana, a resident of Monterey County since 1972, embarked on a pilgrimage by bike on May 1, 2017. She began this journey from the Carmel Mission…
Champions! Monterey County Teens Bike: California State High School Mountain Bike Championships and elsewhere
Many teens, besides going to school and juggling homework and household chores, also have before or after school jobs, exceptional family responsibilities, and plenty of duties and activities that keep them slammed busy. When they finally get a little down time, it makes sense some just want to stay indoors and play video games, connect with people on social media, surf the web—and may even find themselves…
Team Bike Monterey County: Stickers, Poster for Bike Month 2017
Since 1995, as evidenced by my family’s t-shirt below, Transportation Agency for Monterey County has been celebrating bicycling nearly every May. Back then it was Bike Day. Later it became Bike Week. And, after taking a year off in 2013, TAMC picked up the celebrating anew in 2014 with even more gusto, making it Bike Month. Keeping…
Keeping the Local Bike Scene Cool: It’s a multi-pronged effort
Is biking to school worth the risk? What might this Salinas High student, and his parents, say? How can kids of all ages be better supported in biking safely in Monterey County–and who’s already helping?