Children, Teens & Schools
Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day, with Monterey Off Road Cycling Association (MORCA)
Think mountain biking is just for tough kids? Not with an inclusive community like Monterey Off Road Cycling Association/MORCA. See how girls and boys with wide-ranging athletic abilities–or no athletic ability–will often love getting closer to nature on two wheels.
Voices of People Who Bike, Part 2: Encouragement, support, barriers, bullying
Bicycling Monterey’s spring 2023 questionnaire posed 40 questions, and we invited everyone to respond to only a couple questions or to as many as they wished. We’re highlighting responses in a series of posts; this is the second. (For Part 1, “Who bikes, why, and memories,” click here; for Part 3, “Including, inviting, drivers, and…
Voices of People Who Bike, Part 1: Who bikes, why, and memories!
Among the people who dig biking are the following special individuals. Their enthusiasm was clear when Bicycling Monterey posted a questionnaire in spring 2023; the 16 featured here were the first to respond! The questionnaire posed 40 questions, and we invited everyone to respond to only a couple questions or to as many as they…
Pump Track Dreams in Monterey County—and a dream fulfilled in Marina
Marina: May 13, 2023, Grand Opening of the Glorya Jean Tate Park Pump Track at Glorya Jean Tate Park, 3254 Abdy Way, Marina. The nearly 30,000 sq ft paved pump track will feature two separate wall rides—one 40 ft and one 20 ft. https://cityofmarina.org/25/Recreation-Cultural-Services / https://www.cityofmarina.org/1140/Glorya-Jean-Tate-Park * * * This post was first published September 1,…
A kid’s perspective on mountain biking
Guest post by Epic Magenheim, Salinas plus Epic’s bicycling advocacy bookmarks Mountain biking is very healthy because you go up a lot of hills. But have you ever heard of the saying “what goes up must come down”? Because you will almost always get the fun of a downhill after you go up! There are…
Attitudes, behaviors, infrastructure, and more: What makes biking better—or worse—for you?
Update: Responses to the questionnaire have been compiled for a new series, “Voices of People Who Bike.” The first post in that series, “Part 1: Who bikes, why, and memories,” was published June 14, 2023, followed by “Part 2: Encouragement, support, barriers, bullying”; “Part 3: Including, inviting, drivers, and inspiring places”; and on May 24,…