BIKE-AND-RIDE Options: Transportation for You and Your Bike

“Sure, these big guys got us here, but now we’re gonna leave them parked. We came here to bike!”
See 9 options below for getting to your destination via bike-and-ride / an active transportation booster. Many visitors find bike-and-ride is a great choice. And so do local residents; at the end of this bike-and-ride portal page, read one woman’s account.

It’s easy to overlook the many occasions when bike-and-ride transportation is a great choice. Read some of those reasons, and get lots of details about who will transport people and their bikes in Monterey County. Where? In the bike-ride section section of Tips for Bicycling Monterey County, a 20-section guide for tourists and locals.

Click here for those bike-and-ride tips about:

  1. A bike rack for your car (quickly removable type or more permanently installed)
  2. Monterey-Salinas Transit (MST), including multiple out-of-county transit connections. (Or just jump here for some popular MST tips.)
  3. Train (trains, and train-bus combos)
  4. Taxicabs
  5. Hotel shuttles
  6. Airport shuttle
  7. Corporate aviation
  8. Rental cars
  9. Sailboats

If you don’t have a bicycle, refer to “Local Bike Shops” or “Bicycle Rentals.”

If you have a bike but it needs some work, see “Bicycle Repairs and Maintenance.”

A Monterey County resident at the MST transit plaza in downtown Monterey.

Monterey-Salinas Transit is a popular bike-and-ride option. For details, see the MST info in Bicycling Monterey’s bike-and-ride section, or start with popular MST tips.

One woman’s account about bike-and-ride

A Carmel resident who teaches at Monterey Peninsula College shared the following experience:

“Commuting to work by bicycle is not feasible for me, but I’m always thinking about ways to reduce my carbon footprint. A couple weeks ago I had an afternoon appointment that was about 4 miles from my work. I planned ahead and loaded my bike on my car, then I biked (in a skirt no less!) to my appointment. It was so liberating to know that I could get around without my car.”

https://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/1462186778920570883?s=20

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Did you know? You can take a bicycle aboard a bus in all three counties of the Monterey Bay Region:

https://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/1451738645447077889?s=20

https://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/1579563159618142208?s=20&t=oldeNQTvHLkUylKLCI47ug