Bicycling Monterey
Bicycle touring / bikepacking through Monterey County: Pacific Coast Bike Route and other routes
We met the above two bikepacking individuals in city of Monterey in June 2026. Learn a bit about them in Bike Buzz: 17th Anniversary edition. Above: Bikepacking is also second nature to Rob Smolund, who we met biking Garden Road, Monterey in October 2024. Rob has biked from Oakland to San Diego eleven times since…
Project: Boosting Bike Equity
One of the many Bicycling Monterey projects is devoting time and resources toward what many bike advocates refer to as bike equity. Dr. Adonia Lugo, manager of the Bike Equity Network, wrote to Bicycling Monterey’s founder: “You put your region’s diversity front and center in your work.” Bicycling Monterey’s equity efforts since 2009 have included—but are…
Support the bicycling revolution: Be part of the Bicycling Monterey work
Journalist Karen Kefauver (below, forefront at left) wrote in Bicycling Monterey’s’ third year: “Your website has started a revolution in Santa Cruz. We want to launch a site like yours – but we imagine we need 10 people at least to launch what you have done.” The Monterey County visitor at left below exclaimed: “Monterey is very bike…
Bike Month USA resources for Monterey County; Monterey Bay Tri-County Region; state of California; and nationwide
In the 1996 photo below, the daughter of Bicycling Monterey’s founder is holding a T-shirt from the Transportation Agency for Monterey County’s 2nd annual celebration of bicycling, May 16, 1996. Beginning in 1995, TAMC observed Bike Day. Later it became Bike Week, and since 2014, Bike Month. For Bike Month 2023, Bicycling Monterey invited the public’s responses to a Questionnaire for…
Language Resources and Celebrations, plus Guess-Their-Country Game
Para obtener información en español, desplácese hacia abajo hasta la sección C. In this post, it’s as easy as A-B-C to learn a little more about the variety of languages and cultures found in Monterey County. (A) Just for fun: play the “GUESS-THEIR-COUNTRY GAME”—or simply enjoy viewing its 20-photo gallery of people from many nations who…