Bike Monterey County

  • Ciclovía Gonzales, Monterey County’s second Open Streets location

    Short link to this post: http://bit.ly/CicloviaGonzales Help support biking year-round: Advocate for bike-friendly local ordinances in Gonzales and elsewhere. More Open Streets: http://bit.ly/OpenStreetsMRY. More Gonzales tips: Bike Salinas Valley / South County communities – including HER Helmet Thursdays spots. The inauagural Ciclovía Gonzales is Sunday, September 9, 2018, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. (revised from previously scheduled hours of…

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  • Ciclovía Salinas 2018 — an Open Streets event in Monterey County

    For the latest info on Ciclovía Salinas, see /resources/ciclovia-salinas-resources Scroll down for Call It What You Will’s audio interview with some of the youth volunteers who put on Ciclovía Salinas 2018. Reports following the 2018 event include, e.g., photo gallery by Joe Szydlowski in the Salinas Californian http://www.thecalifornian.com/picture-gallery/news/2018/10/08/plenty-fun-go-around-2018-ciclovia-salinas/1561566002/; video by KSBW, reported by Sierra Starks http://www.ksbw.com/article/6th-annual-ciclovia-event-in-salinas/23632361; video by Monterey County…

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  • 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!

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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