Posters, flyers, logos, links, and more, including CA bike law summaries, Monterey County tips, etc.

Just want to grab some mini-flyers to share? Here ya go:
2023 – 4-to-a-pg mini fliers – BikeMontereyDOTorg

This web page includes 

three sections of materials:

And before Section I, see 15 popular posters/flyers.

Section I – For Anyone: Posters, flyers, and minis – Scroll down this page.
Section II – For Anyone:  Web Links and Online Social Media. For a sampling of links, copy and paste the following text into your browser’s find window, then go to the third “hit” on this page: Web Links
Section III – For HER Helmet Thursdays Businesses and Organizations: Staff Reference Sheets, Participants Posters and More (including logos that call out “Participant”). For “Participant” signs for businesses and organizations participating in the HER Helmet Thursdays Project, copy and paste the following text into your browser’s find window, then go to the third “hit” on this page: For HER Helmet Thursdays

15 popular posters/flyers

The first 15 flyers include California bike law summaries in English and Spanish, bikemonterey.org mini-flyers, some of the Monterey County communities in HER Helmet Thursdays, and more
The first 2 flyers are especially useful to share with people not online.
  1. Bike law summary – Spanish and English

  2. Leyes de ciclismo de CA – Laws for bicyclists in CA (Spanish, English) – Summary (one 8.5 x 11 poster, bilingual, two-column)
  3. Bicycling Monterey 4-to-a-page mini-flyers –2023 – 4-to-a-pg mini fliers – BikeMontereyDOTorg
  4. Bicycling Monterey – 8.5 x 11 poster – 2023

  5. Bicycling Monterey mini-flyers – general info (without mention of HER Helmet Thursdays–handy for those hotels, etc. that aren’t yet in the HER Helmet Thursdays Project)
  6. 12th anniversary poster – HER Helmet Thursdays Project – Poster – 2021 – 12th Anniversary HER Helmet Thursdays
  7. Tips for Bicycling Monterey County (one 8.5 x 11 poster) – 2015
  8. HER Helmet Thursdays Quick Reference Guide – a multi-page item, especially suitable for display, the HER Helmet Thursdays Quick Reference Guide lists participating businesses and organizations, currently in 19 Monterey County cities and unincorporated communities. Here’s an example of the guide:10th Anniversary HER Helmet Thursdays Guide – Listings as of January 2020 For the most current guide anytime, refer to the Listings/How to Get the Discount/FAQs page. (When updated guides are available, they’ll be posted there.)
  9. Bicycling Salinas – Mini-flyers-4-to-a-pg Also see Salinas HER Helmet Thursdays spots poster below.
  10. Bike Castroville – North County 4-to-pg mini flyers
  11. Tips for Monterey County college students, and others – 4-to-a-page mini flyer
  12. Highlighted HER Helmet Thursdays city: Salinas HER Helmet Thursdays spots – as of 1 Jan 2020

  13. Highlighted HER Helmet Thursdays city: Pacific Grove HHT list poster 4 Dec 2017 (Note: Volunteers needed for tasks such as updating this poster, including adding hyperlinks so PG participant names are linked as they are on the Salinas and Seaside posters. Contact me to volunteer for this or other tasks.)
  14. Highlighted HER Helmet Thursdays communities: Carmel and Carmel Valley HER Helmet Thursdays spots as of 10 May 2017 Volunteer to add the hyperlinks, so names listed on this poster are linked, as with the Salinas and Seaside posters. Contact me to volunteer for this or other tasks.)
  15. Highlighted HER Helmet Thursdays city: Seaside HER Helmet Thursdays spots as of 4 April 2016
Other items available include tabletop sign and stickers (shown here). Please  phone Bicycling Monterey if you’d like these emailed to you, or if you’d like to borrow a tabletop sign for an event.
Available too—new in 2023—are bookmarks designed by an 11-year-old bike advocate. 

Bicycling Monterey bookmark created by Epic Magenheim

Did you know? For over a decade, the work of Bicycling Monterey’s founder on this site and on all other Bicycling Monterey projects has been done as an unpaid volunteer. More volunteers are needed to create some new posters, update old ones, and to revise this web page for easier use. If you have graphics or WordPress skills and might like to volunteer, please phone Bicycling Monterey. Another way to help is to make a contribution (click here) and specify that its use is for the services of a graphics professional, or for printing of posters, flyers, bike law summaries, etc. for distribution in Bicycling Monterey’s outreach. Thank you.

Notes about posters: (1) Gender – Out of respect for people with other identities, we’re in the process of changing text on our HER Helmet Thursdays posters and flyers, first created in 2009. We’re changing “males and females” to “people.” (Originally we’d said “males and females” to help get across that “HER” referred to Mother Earth—who benefits from more people biking—and to the primary types of places that participate in that project.) (2) Volunteer – Phone Bicycling Monterey if you’d like to volunteer to help update posters and flyers or to create new ones. (3) URLs – The Bicycling Monterey website is accessible via https://bikemonterey.org and alternate URLs, including bicyclingmonterey.com, which is on some older posters. (4) Contribute – To make a contribution toward printing items for community outreach—or to contribute to other Bicycling Monterey projectsclick here.

Still have an old poster?

Laminated ones last a long time, as Trish Sullivan of Destination Salinas/Salinas 411 showed in  October 2013, displaying a “Tips for Tourists Bicycling Monterey County” poster she’s had since 2009.  If you need custom posters, like Trish–who is a resource for Salinas visitors–contact Mari.

Trish Sullivan photo Oct 2013

These San Francisco Bay Area visitors, Derrick Chao and Kyle Ingebretson, were happy to learn about Monterey County’s  bicycling resources and projects, including the bike-and-ride tips in the Tips for Bicycling Monterey County guide.

All posters and mini-flyers are in PDF format, ready to download and print.

Questions? Please contact Mari (831-375-6278).

Section I –  

For Anyone:

Announcement

Posters, Flyers, and Minis

 Section I materials help people learn about:

Note that Tips for Bicycling Monterey County posters are available with and without (Poster 3a and Mini 3b) mention of the HER Helmet Thursdays project. Those without are made for those H-E-R businesses and organizations not in the project (yet, anyway) who would still like to share tips on biking.

Posters 1a HER Helmet Thursdays Anniversary Posters

Poster – 10th Anniversary – HER Helmet Thursdays can be printed on 8-1/2 x 11 paper.

The 5th anniversary poster can be printed on 9 x 12 paper (or card stock). However, it displays much better if enlarged and printed on 18 x 24 paper.

HER Helmet Thursdays 5th Anniversary Poster.pdf

HER Helmet Thursdays 5th Anniversary poster JQ2

Poster 1b Charter Participants in HER Helmet Thursdays (8.5 x 11)
Download PDF:

Charter Participants HER Helmet Thursdays – Final List

Charter Participants deserve a special salute for being the first 100 leaders! These first-year participants joined between Thanksgiving week 2010 and Thanksgiving week 2011.

bicyclingmontereydotcom

Quick Reference Guide –  1c – All Participants in HER Helmet Thursdays

All participants–numbering over 200 by 2012–are include in the HER Helmet Thursdays Quick Reference Guide.  The most current version is provided in PDF format, to download and print, on the Listings page; click here.

Poster 1d –  HER Helmet Thursdays spots in Salinas, the Monterey County seat
Download PDF:
Salinas HER Helmet Thursdays spots as of 13 Sept 2015

Poster 2a – Tips, including HER Helmet Thursdays (8.5 x 11)
Download PDF:

Tips for Bicycling Monterey County and HER Helmet Thursdays – 8.5 x 11

Announces Tips for Bicycling Monterey County, the free online guide useful to both locals and visitors, and the HER Helmet Thursdays project.

Many retail store windows, hotel concierge binders, employee and community bulletin boards, and other places throughout Monterey County already display posters.  Join them!

Mini Poster/Flyer 2b
Download PDF:

Bicycling Monterey and HHT – 4-to-pg mini – color

Bicycling Monterey and HER Helmet Thursdays – 4-to-pg mini – black-and-white

Abbreviated announcement of both projects.  These 4.25 x 5.5 announcements are formatted to print four-to-a-page on 8.5 x 11 paper (or card stock).

And here’s another, with an emphasis on tips but also including brief mention of HER Helmet Thursdays.

Bicycling Monterey mini-flyers with HER Helmet Thursdays

Mini Poster/Flyer 2c
Download PDF:

Tips for busy Monterey County college students and others – 4-to-a-pg flyer

 

Poster 3a – Tips for Bicycling Monterey County (only) (8.5 x 11)
Download PDF:

Tips for Bicycling Monterey County 2015

Announces Tips for Bicycling Monterey County guideThis was especially created for those H-E-R locations—Hotels, Entertainment/education venues, and Restaurants—who are not yet in the HER Helmet Thursdays project, and nevertheless, are also enthused about sharing tips for biking with their customers and guests.  (You may wish to ask if they’ve heard of HER Helmet Thursdays, and let them know that they are welcome to become a participant.)

Mini Posters/Flyers 3b
Download PDF: Bicycling Monterey mini-flyers – general info

Abbreviated announcement of Tips for Bicycling Monterey County only (no mention of HER Helmet Thursdays).  These 4.25 x 5.5 announcements are formatted to print four-to-a-page on 8.5 x 11 paper (or card stock).They are particularly helpful for concierges, front desk staff, parking attendants, and others at a non-HER Helmet Thursdays establishment that nonetheless loves to share cycling info with their guests.

Alternate Mini Poster/Flyer 3c
Download PDF

Bike Info Hub for Monterey County – 4-to-a-pg mini flyer

 Alternate Mini Poster/Flyer 3d

Bicycling Monterey mini-flyers – general info (without mention of HER Helmet Thursdays–handy for those hotels, etc. that aren’t yet in the HER Helmet Thursdays project)

Bicycling Salinas – Mini – 3e

Bicycling Salinas minis with HHT mention

Download PDFs (2 options)

Bicycling Salinas and HER Helmet Thursdays – 4-to-pg mini – B&W

Bicycling Salinas and HHT – 4-to-pg mini – B&W  (alternate)

Bicycling Castroville / North County – Mini – 3f

Bike Castroville – North County 4-to-pg mini flyers

Poster/flyer 4a – Laws/Leyes – Summary of CA Bike Laws  in English and Spanish – en español y en ingles, 8-1/2 x 11
Download PDF Leyes de ciclismo de CA – Laws for bicyclists in CA (Spanish, English) – Summary

Poster/flyer 4b – “Be Cool, Be Safe – Know California Bike Laws”

Summarizes some of the CA bike laws and encourages safe riding practices and advocating for better infrastructure. Law enforcement professionals can also distribute this as part of their effort to “educate rather than citate.”

Download PDF:
Be Cool, Be Safe – Bike Law Summary & Advocating for Biking

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Email a poster link to others

Copy and paste the  links from any of the above PDFs) and email  to travel agents, cycling clubs, civic groups, friends or business associates planning a trip, and others.  Please contact me for ideas or for help.

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Section II –

For Anyone:

Web Links and

Online Social Media

Bicycling Monterey welcomes and encourages linking to our website from your own website. Simply enter the following HTML:

<a href=”https://bikemonterey.org”>Bicycling Monterey</a>

Or if you would like a new window to open when your website visitor clicks on the link (so they will still have a window open with your website), enter the following:

<a href=”https://bikemonterey.org” target=”_blank”>Bicycling Monterey</a>

You may also include the following logo, if you wish. Simply right click on the logo and choose “Save as…” 

In addition to linking to Bicycling Monterey on your website, you may want to spread the good news about the Bicycling Monterey site and projects via your online social media (OSM) accounts. For our OSM handles, please refer to our Contact / Subscribe / OSM page (click here).
Here are some examples…
of ways that others are linking to the Bicycling Monterey website, the Tips for Bicycling Monterey County guide, and/or the HER Helmet Thursdays project.
Besides simple text links, if linking to

HER Helmet Thursdays info, you may wish to include the HER Helmet Thursdays general logo below.

If linking to the BicyclingMonterey.com home page,

or to the Tips for Bicycling Monterey County guide, you may wish to include the Bicycling Monterey website banner image below.

For images in different sizes or formats, or for other help, you or your webmaster are welcome to phone Bicycling Monterey.

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Section III –

For HER Helmet Thursdays

Businesses and Organizations

The items below are for the businesses/organizations that are participating in HER Helmet Thursdays.  Not yet a participant? Click here!

Before we go on to the posters, here are some photos of their use by some participants.

Lalla Grill at the Del Monte Center, Monterey…

and sister restaurants Lallapalooza on Alvarado, Monterey and Lalla Lounge and Elli’s Great American Restaurant in Salinas are all Charter Participants of the HER Helmet Thursdays project.

London Bridge Pub has a HER Helmet Thursdays mini in the window on their bar side, and a laminated HER Helmet Thursdays poster in the window on the wharf side–and often have flyers inside too.

The Fishwife in Seaside

Fishwife at Asilomar, Fishwife in Seaside, and Turtle Bay in Seaside all display their HER Helmet Thursdays posters–and are all Charter Participants.

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Peppers Mexicali Cafe, Pacific Grove is a charter participant (joined in the first year). Their HER Helmet Thursdays poster still graces their window as of May 2019.

As shown below,  a special “Participant” HER Helmet Thursdays logo is  available for the participating business and organizations.  The “Participant” logo is available in versions for websites, print, and other media. Just ask Mari to email what you need.

There is also a plain logo that anyone may use.  In the photo below, see how the Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Cycling Club used it!

The NPS Foundation Cycling Club found a unique way to get the word out–at a Twilight Ride at Mazda Raceway, Laguna Seca.

Staff Reference Sheet for Participants

Staff Reference Sheet is provided on a separate page. Please click here.

Ideas for posters or minis use:  Laminate or frame and display.   Some participants even print them on clear or white decal paper–voila! a window decal.
Certificate of Participation/Sign – for “H”/Hotels/Lodging venues
Download PDF:

PARTICIPANT: Any Hotel or other lodging participant

Many lodging providers add this 8-1/2 x 11 poster to their concierge binder, alongside a Tips for Bicycling Monterey County poster. A mini is also provided here….

Download PDF:

MINI – Any Hotel or other lodging participant

Certificate of Participation/Sign-  for “E”/Educational or Entertainment and “R”/’Restaurants and related places, such as wineries and spas
Download PDF:

PARTICIPANT SIGN for any Educational, Entertainment, Restaurant, (or related place, e.g., wineries, spas)

This 8-1/2 x 11 poster is for all non-lodging participants:   It is for “E/educational/entertainment and “R”/restaurant participants, and related venues, such as wineries. 

A mini is also provided here….

Download PDF:

MINI – Any HER  Helmet Thursdays Educational, Entertainment, or Restaurant participant

Poster Honoring Charter Participants (8.5 x 11)
Download PDF:

Charter Participants HER Helmet Thursdays – Final List

bicyclingmontereydotcom

This 8-1/2 x 11 poster gives a special salute to Charter Participants.  Charter Participants are those who joined in the project’s first year (between Thanksgiving week 2010 and Thanksgiving week 2011).  If you are a Charter Participant and your logo is not on this poster, please email me a jpg image of your logo, and I will be happy to prepare a custom poster for your location.  Please contact me with any questions or special requests.

Displaying the posters prominently…

helps build a reputation for Monterey County as one of the most bike friendly places in the country!  Your help is appreciated.

Questions?  Need help? 

Phone Bicycling Monterey.