General Safety Tips
California Bicycle Advocates Call on Elected Leaders to Protect E-Bike Riders
Bicycling Monterey is among signatories to a Statement on E-Bike Safety from California Bicycle Advocates, released Dec 10, 2024, for reasons including: widespread confusion and misinformation about e-bikes, the need for education, the need for safer infrastructure, and the critical contribution of active transportation toward meeting the state’s goals to reduce carbon emissions. The transportation…
Tips for People Who Bike in Rainy Weather
We appreciate rain, including because of this rainbow it delivered over the Monterey Bay! Nonetheless, biking in rainy weather requires extra caution for your protection. And if you’re a mountain biker, rainy weather requires caution for protection of the land too. Should you just skip biking in rainy weather? Maybe—and maybe not! Before deciding what’s…
Safe Routes to School: Parking lots and pick-up zones
Back on February 7, 2014, at the invitation of the Monterey County Health Department, Bicycling Monterey’s founder made a presentation to the Safe Routes to School Committee at King Elementary in Seaside. Sadly, attendees didn’t have any interest yet in promoting walking and biking to school. It makes sense that King’s SRTS committee had a…
SURVEY: SAFE’s California Driving Laws Survey (English and español)
el cuestionario en español:https://www.streetsareforeveryone.org/safe-events/driving-laws-survey It’s easy to grumble, but do you want to take action to help make things better? Here’s one simple way to collaborate with others on making California roads safer. Many California drivers don’t know some CA laws—e.g., that since 1 Jan 2023, drivers of all motor vehicles are to change lanes…
Bicycle Joy: Youth development
One of the joys of doing bike advocacy over the past fifteen years has been witnessing youth development. We first met this young Seaside resident in 2013, outside the Monterey Public Library, when he was a bike-to-school student of Monterey High School (soon a MHS graduate). In the first days of summer 2024, we met…