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Scenes from 2024 Sea Otter Classic in Monterey County
The 2024 Sea Otter Classic in Monterey County—a Celebration of Cycling—was April 18-21. Save the dates for 2025: April 10-13. All photos and video clips in this post were shot by Bicycling Monterey’s founder unless otherwise credited. Our gratitude to James Short, Sierra Rad, and Sieg Magenheim for their photo contributions. All links go to posts…
Monterey Bay Lightfighters Mountain Bike Team — 2018-2019 season
The 2018-19 season is underway for Monterey Bay Lightfighters Composite Mountain Bike Team and other teams of the NorCal High School Cycling League. Fall 2018 began the Lightfighters seventh year in the NorCal League. The NorCal League, established in 2001, and the National Interscholastic Cycling Association, founded in 2009, are the regional and national organizations under whose…
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…
Awesome bike coaches of Monterey County–Monterey Composite, Palma, Salinas High
Great coaches can change lives. If you know a coach in high school mountain biking, here’s a chance to remind them their work with youth is important and appreciated!
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…