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Happy Bike Month, Monterey County from Salinas Pol...

Happy Bike Month, Monterey County from Salinas Police and Your Entire Bike Community

Bike Week / Bike Month are celebrated throughout the Monterey Bay region, and nationwide. As we observe Monterey County Bike Week, we’d be remiss not to acknowledge how local law enforcement helps make our county better for biking–just as they did on May 6. Here’s a special shout-out to Salinas PD, making the Monterey County seat a better place for all who...

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Pacific Grove Native Larissa Keeler Biking to Help...

Pacific Grove Native Larissa Keeler Biking to Help End AIDS

Larissa Keeler saw that her longtime family friend Jeff Richman of Salinas (above) helped those with HIV and AIDS just by doing what he loved–riding his bike! This year Larissa, a native of Pacific Grove, is doing the same. Read her message below. From June 2-8, 2013, I’m bicycling in AIDS/LifeCycle. It’s a 7-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los...

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Bike to School: In Monterey County ...

Bike to School: In Monterey County and elsewhere

Volunteers make a difference! Scroll down for bike news and scenes from...

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Why stop now? Elder cyclists in Mont...

Why stop now? Elder cyclists in Monterey County

What’s a little grey hair? For most people, it’s not an indicator...

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NPS Provides Inspiration and Support...

NPS Provides Inspiration and Support for Biking in Monterey County

Here’s an update on one of the many ways the Naval Postgraduate School...

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Thank You, Bike Class Teachers: Mont...

Thank You, Bike Class Teachers: Monterey County Probation Department Youth Center Honors Providers

On April 24, 2013, volunteer instructors of the Monterey County Probation...

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Bike to Work: Join this Heller Orga...

Bike to Work: Join this Heller Organic winemaker on the bikeways!

“I’d like to bike to work, but….” If stamina and...

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Bike to Worship

Bike to Worship

Bike to church, mosque, satsang, synagogue, or other place of worship.  In...

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Do you enjoy the Open Space of Monte...

Do you enjoy the Open Space of Monterey’s Custom House Plaza, and the Alvarado Mall? These people do.

Many folks value that Custom House Plaza and the Alvarado Mall are a very...

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Ciclovia Salinas! Monterey County...

Ciclovia Salinas! Monterey County’s First Open Streets Event.

Ciclovia Salinas Click here for more about bicycling in Salinas. For info on...

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Bike Fashionistas: Dress-Up Challeng...

Bike Fashionistas: Dress-Up Challenge, or Anytime!

Need some tips on biking dressed up?  Lots of ideas under “How to...

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Falling in Love with Bicycling

Falling in Love with Bicycling

  Bicycling West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz with my friend Gerri...

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2013 Twilight Rides at Mazda Raceway...

2013 Twilight Rides at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

The Twilight Rides are “a safe and relaxed atmosphere for families to...

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Monterey County Youth Center Bike Cl...

Monterey County Youth Center Bike Class Supporters: Sea Otter Classic Vendors

People for Bikes was among the organizations and businesses who stepped up to...

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1st Anniversary of Monterey County Y...

1st Anniversary of Monterey County Youth Center Bike Class. Be Part of the Solution!

The Monterey County bike community came together to help meet the needs of...

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Classes in Bike Maintenance, for Kid...

Classes in Bike Maintenance, for Kids and Adults: 7/29 and 9/23, 2013

July 29 and September 23, 2013  Classes Minimum of 6 students required. ...

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18 or under? No car, no worries. A b...

18 or under? No car, no worries. A bike and $38 will get you nearly everywhere you need to go, June 1 through Aug 31.

Here’s a shout-out to Monterey-Salinas Transit:  The Summer Youth...

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Used Bikes for Sale: And better yet,...

Used Bikes for Sale: And better yet, from professionals at local bike shops!

Don’t want to risk buying a used bike from an unknown individual?  In...

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Back to the Books–and Bikes...

Back to the Books–and Bikes–in Monterey County: Tips for College Students

Free up time for studies and fun! Save yourself research by reviewing the ...

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Monterey Composite High School Mount...

Monterey Composite High School Mountain Bike Team–for High Schoolers Countywide

  Update: On 3/17/13, Monterey Composite launches next year’s team....

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Salinas Youth Lead the Way in Monter...

Salinas Youth Lead the Way in Monterey County Bike Community Firsts

I love biking Salinas!  I love the ag-town vibe of Monterey County’s...

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Salinas Bike Party, a Courteous Soci...

Salinas Bike Party, a Courteous Social Bike Run

 Visit SalinasBikeParty.com for schedule of upcoming rides. You can be part...

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Monterey Regional Airport: Bike Loc...

Monterey Regional Airport: Bike Lockers, Bike-Friendly Restaurant and Jet Center, and Airport-to-Bike-Path Tips

It’s an easy bike ride from the Monterey Regional Airport to the...

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Biking between Salinas and the Monte...

Biking between Salinas and the Monterey Peninsula: Lupine Season on Monterey-Salinas Hwy 68, and Other Tips

Lupines in bloom on Monterey-Salinas Highway 68 are just one more reason Keith...

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Lodging Providers Show Monterey Coun...

Lodging Providers Show Monterey County Is a Bike-Friendly Place

Coming to Monterey County and bringing or renting a bike?  You’ll get a...

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La joie de les bicyclettes: French v...

La joie de les bicyclettes: French visitors biking California’s Central Coast

Sylvie and Robert caught my eye as I was leaving a meeting at Cafe La Strada,...

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Bike Love: From Holland to Monterey

Bike Love: From Holland to Monterey

This happy Dutch trio was heading out the door of the Old Monterey Cafe, where...

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Italian Honeymooners at the Custom H...

Italian Honeymooners at the Custom House Plaza

Emiliano and Katarina, honeymooners from Italy, paused for an embrace at the...

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German Ingenuity: More Than One Way ...

German Ingenuity: More Than One Way to Travel by Bike

Visitors from Germany, Dieter and Nadja Binz, biked in Monterey, Seaside, and...

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Camping in Monterey County

Camping in Monterey County

Camping?  As this view shows, we have dry summers in Monterey County. Please...

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Distracted? Watch out. We’re a...

Distracted? Watch out. We’re all family!

Monterey County cops are alert. And Salinas police officers have written more...

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How to Avoid Accidents When Biking M...

How to Avoid Accidents When Biking Monterey County

Just after Christmas 2012, a nine-year-old Salinas girl suffered a broken leg...

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Constables of the Peace – Cops...

Constables of the Peace – Cops on Bikes

In this post, you’ll see police officers on bikes in Carmel-by-the-Sea,...

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Santa Cruzans–and Many Faces o...

Santa Cruzans–and Many Faces of Bicycling on the Monterey Bay

Many of our neighbors from Santa Cruz County love exploring Monterey County by...

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Biking through Pregnancy

Biking through Pregnancy

Some mothers-to-be, like this lovely one on a bicycle alongside Del Monte...

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Where the Plazas Are in the City of ...

Where the Plazas Are in the City of Monterey–and how to preserve their charm

Visitors–and even Monterey County residents–sometimes ask: ...

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Bike Salinas: Tell TAMC where street...

Bike Salinas: Tell TAMC where street improvements are needed.

  Do you bike Salinas, as the people above and I love to do? Where in...

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Singletrack High in Monterey

Singletrack High in Monterey

Special thanks to Jacob and Isaac Siegel-Bottner of Pedal Born Pictures....

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Speak Up Now for Complete Streets: 2...

Speak Up Now for Complete Streets: 2013 Needs Assessment for Monterey County

COMPLETE STREETS NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR MONTEREY COUNTY 2013 Bicycling Monterey...

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How to help: Bikes, gear, skills for...

How to help: Bikes, gear, skills for youth and others without

Surely nobody’d like that old bike in our garage–would they? ...

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Jazz Rapid Transit: Linear Museum by...

Jazz Rapid Transit: Linear Museum by Monterey-Salinas Transit

Monterey-Salinas Transit is celebrating the completion of construction work...

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Hello, Spring! People on Bikes Say ...

Hello, Spring! People on Bikes Say Goodbye to Winter

Adios, winter! December to March is still a good season for biking in Monterey...

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Vids for Kids, and Adults; and Bicyc...

Vids for Kids, and Adults; and Bicycle Infrastructure

Contact Mari for an update on completed improvements. Appreciate bike paths,...

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Laurel Thomsen & Dan Frechette&...

Laurel Thomsen & Dan Frechette–from Pixels to Performance: Tour Stops in Monterey County

Perhaps you’ve seen Laurel Thomsen stop traffic before. She could...

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Three Foot Passing, California! Stil...

Three Foot Passing, California! Still working on it….

3/27/13: For the latest on the continuing attempt to get a 3-Foot Passing bill...

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Getting on the right path–a bi...

Getting on the right path–a bike path! Bicycle Repair and Safety class at Monterey County’s youth treatment center.

Some Monterey County boys are wrenching bikes, and practicing bike-riding...

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Shawn Carden: Salinas Teen’s 2...

Shawn Carden: Salinas Teen’s 2013 BMX Season Begins

Shawn Carden’s 2013 BMX season starts in January, with his first national...

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Spinning Spokes and Telling Jokes: ...

Spinning Spokes and Telling Jokes: The birth of the FNB ride group

 Guest post by Jesse Martines FNB is a Fixed Gear Cycling Club from the 831....

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Bike Sharing – Monterey County...

Bike Sharing – Monterey County Feasibility

“Bike share program?  Usually I bike, but sometimes I take the bus to...

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Ray LaHood Jazzed About MST’s ...

Ray LaHood Jazzed About MST’s Rapid-Transit Monterey Jazz Lines

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was in Monterey County on Veterans...

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Downtown Salinas church asks: What ...

Downtown Salinas church asks: What would happen if we changed the ways we moved around?

Great question to ponder, posed by … First United Methodist Church of...

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The Bully, the Bullied, and the Byst...

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander and other resources for parents and educators from Barbara Coloroso

“The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander:  Breaking the Cycle of...

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Cruising the Sea Otter Expo: Over 40...

Cruising the Sea Otter Expo: Over 400 Bike-Love Exhibitors!

Sea Otter Classic has a record-breaking 405 exhibitors registered for 2013....

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Public Radio Highlights Luciano Rodr...

Public Radio Highlights Luciano Rodriguez, Monterey County Bike Community Leader

What’s up with the fixie rider? That’s Luciano Rodriguez, one of...

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Signs of a Bicycling Friendly Monter...

Signs of a Bicycling Friendly Monterey County

  These photos from various Monterey County locations all say the same...