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CA Bike Laws and Personal Safety–with Tips for Kids

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TIPS FOR BICYCLING MONTEREY COUNTY–The 20-Section Guide

• Tips for Tourists/Residents
  • Overview of the Guide (with Index)
  • 1. Why Bike: The Many Benefits of Bicycling
  • 2. Once You Start: Bike Maps and Other Tools for Finding Your Way
  • 3. CA Bicycle Laws and Personal Bike Safety–with Tips for Kids
  • 4. Where to Shower and Change
  • 5. Bike-and-Ride Options: Bicycling Needn’t Be All or Nothing!
  • 6. Bicycle Security, including Unique List of Places to Go
  • 7. Bicycle Shops in Monterey County–and Tips on New and Used Bike Purchases
  • 8. Repairs and Maintenance for Bikes–and Bikeways–Including DIY
  • 9. Bike Rentals in Monterey County–plus Self-Led and Guided Tours
  • 10. Where to Bike in Monterey County
  • 11. Cycling to Monterey County’s History Spots
  • 12. Shopping by Bike
  • 13. Bike Valet Parking and Other Bicycle Parking
  • 14. Hotels, Entertainment, Educational Venues, Restaurants
  • 15. More Bicycle Safety: High Visibility
  • 16. What to Do in Salinas, the Monterey County Seat
  • 17. Farmers Markets
  • 18. Serious Cyclists: MTB, Road, Touring (Clubs, Group Rides, Camping, More)
  • 19. Biking in the Dark
  • 20. Bicycling and Ecotourism/Good Earthkeeping Right at Home
• About Donations
• COPYRIGHT REMINDER, Navigating This Site, and More
• Donors
• Dress-Up Challenge Prize Donors
• Donations: Some ways your money can help
• Other Languages
• Volunteer Opportunities
• Guests Posts, Local Bike News, Photos Welcome
• “R” Category Welcomes the Wineries
• Bicycle Advocacy: What you can do
• en español
• Bike-and-Ride Options: Transportation for You and Your Bike
• Posters, Web Links, and Other Project Resources
• Listings / Where to Get Discounts (plus FAQs)
• Thanks to Charter Participants: Leaders in a Bike-Friendly County
• H-E-R Business/Organization STAFF REFERENCE SHEET

Bike-friendly? You bet! These Monterey County spots give discounts to male and female cyclists on Thursdays:

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Bike Valet and Other Bicycle Parking

Maps and Other Tools for Finding Your Way

Bicycling Carmel–Charming Surprises

Bicycling Castroville–Monterey County’s Second Oldest Town

Bicycling Pebble Beach–17-Mile Drive

Bicycling Salinas–the Monterey County Seat

Bicycling Seaside–Most Bike Commuters in the County

Bike to the Beach

Bike to the Farmers Markets

Bike for Sustainable Seafood

Bike to a Winery–with Tips on Alcohol and Biking

Answer Man and Other Serious Cyclists–Tips for MTB, Road, Touring, and More

Acknowledgements

About this site

Mari Lynch created Bicycling Monterey to encourage biking, as well as other Earth-friendly actions.

This site is also home of the HER Helmet Thursdays Project, a long-term ecology-economy sustainability project that provides discounts on Thursdays to males and females who bike.

These bike advocacy projects are a community service of Fine Wordworking and Mari Lynch, honored with a Transportation Excellence Award from the Transportation Agency for Monterey County. To learn more, please see the "About" section.

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