Bicycling Monterey ๐Ÿ’š๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒ

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๐ŸŒฑGrassroots volunteer effort since 2009.๐Ÿ’š Inspire & empower more people to #bike. Local Partner, California Bicycle Coalition. Info Hub for Biking #Monterey County. Resources for ๐Ÿšฒ anywhere.๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒ

MAIN INTERESTS: #BikeTooter #cycling #Biking #Transportation #infrastructure #ActiveTransport #TrafficSafety #CalBike #SFBA #MontereyBay ๐ŸŒˆ#EarthStewardship #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #Democracy #USA #Canada #Mexico

#AltText profile pic:our then 2-yr-old in bike trailer

LocationMonterey County (Homeland of Rumsien and Esselen), California, USA
Bike Monterey home pagehttps://bikemonterey.org/
Bike Monterey contact pagehttps://bikemonterey.org/contact-me
California Bicycle Coalition local partnershttps://www.calbike.org/about_us/who_we_are/local_partners/

"There's a lot of infrastructure that works like this that is not designed for somebody malicious to come after it," Kohlbrenner said. "We rely on people being kind of reasonable citizens to not do that.โ€ https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-jeff-bezos-deepfake-ai-crosswalks-hacked-cellphone

#Crosswalks

Seattle crosswalk signals with deepfake Bezos may have been hacked with just a cellphone

Instead of the little robotic voice that tells you to wait until it's safe to cross, at least five intersections in Seattle last week played something like this: "Hi, I'm Jeff Bezos. This crosswalk is sponsored by Amazon Prime with an important message. You know, please, please don't tax the rich, otherwise all the other billionaires will move to Florida, too."

Ya know how children and teens can be โ€œbottomless pits,โ€ forever hungry? When we take kids on bike outings, we attempt to be prepared with snacks for em. Thanks to Vafels, on behalf of Will Dugan, for surprising us on April 11 with a box of eight Vanilla Stroopvafels https://vafels.com/products/r-d-vanilla-stroopvafels, for youth participating in our bike activities. And yes, the kids gave those European-style wafels a thumbs upโ€”gobbled them down fast! https://vafels.com/

#DutchTreats #HandmadeInColorado #AthletesOnTheMove

R&D - Vanilla Stroopvafels - 8ct Box

โ€œWhat a Wonderful World,โ€ written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss.

Performed by Louis Armstrong live at BBC Studios in 1968. https://youtu.be/CaCSuzR4DwM?si=tkmloOkOxXLtN_M6

#EarthDay #LouisArmstrong #WhatAWonderfulWorld

You may want to do as we do: make use of Duck Duck Goโ€™s Duck Player. The Duck Player โ€œlets you watch videos on YouTube without privacy-invading ads, and keeps what you watch from impacting your recommendations.โ€Œโ€ Details: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duck-player/

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (At The BBC)

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April 22: Earth Day | Bicycling Monterey | Resources for Anywhere & Monterey County Biking Information Hub

Sometimes people donโ€™t use the bike lights legally required in their locale because they donโ€™t know the laws (e.g., for California, https://bikemonterey.org/wp-content/uploads/CA-bike-law-summary-bilingual-2025.pdf). Other times, there are other reasonsโ€”in some cases, itโ€™s that their family budget hasnโ€™t allowed purchasing a reliable light.

Our gratitude to Shawna Wagner and Patrick Presco of NiteRider for contributing on April 13 a Lumina Micro 650 Front Bike Light. https://www.niterider.com/products/6784-lumina-micro-650?_pos=2&_psq=lumina-micro&_ss=e&_v=1.0 This allowed us to gift the light to a court-referred Salinas Valley teen participating in Bicycling Montereyโ€™s project Alternatives to Fines for Traffic Citations. Thank you, NiteRider! https://www.niterider.com/

#TrafficSafety #TrafficFines #BikeLaws #BicycleLights #BikeLights #cycling #biking #bicycling

We educate youth not only on riding skills, bike laws, and safety but also on topics including bicycle theft prevention. In support of youth participating in our bike education activities, on April 13 a Kryptonite KryptoLok Standard with 4โ€™ flex cable and keyed U-lock https://www.kryptonitelock.com/en/products/product-information/current-key/001966.html was generously contributed by Bert Low of Allegion https://www.allegion.com/corp/en/index.html. Previously weโ€™ve purchased Kryptonite locks, and we've been very happy with them. Weโ€™re grateful to Bert for his prompt, gracious response to this need.

#BicycleTheft #BikeLock #cycling #biking #bicycling #KryptoniteLocks

KryptoLok Standard With 4' Flex Cable

@kryptonite
For those curious, see our 2010 post https://bikemonterey.org/its-not-about-the-helmet.html
Itโ€™s Not About Wearing a Helmetโ€”The HER Helmet Thursdays Project | Bicycling Monterey | Resources for Anywhere & Monterey County Biking Information Hub

Excerpt from NYT story by Lynsey Chutel and Rosanne Kropman:

Mr. te Brรถmmelstroet, popularly known as the โ€œBike Professorโ€ because of his media appearances focused on bike safety, says he has nothing against helmets, but that the campaign paints cycling as a dangerous activity in a country where people of all ages ride bikes daily.

โ€œWhy donโ€™t we call it โ€˜the day against traffic crashesโ€™ or โ€˜the day against road violenceโ€™?โ€ he asked. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/europe/bicycles-helmets-dutch.html

The Dutch Love Their Bicycles. Helmets? Not So Much.

Cyclists comprise the highest number of road fatalities in the Netherlands. The country has introduced a campaign to promote helmets, but many cyclists are not convinced.

The New York Times

Big Bike โšช๐Ÿšฒ was out with the Big Bros on #MaundyThursday. ๐Ÿ˜„

We met up outside our church around 6AM. I got home past 1PM.๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ 'Twas a good time. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

The idea was to do a #Christian version of the #Filipino #Catholic #BisitaIglesia. Not sure if it's just a Filipino thing or if it even counts as tradition ๐Ÿค” but people do it here. It's basically #church-hopping. Instead of Catholic churches, we visited contemporary Christian churches. The goal was 7. We did 16. ๐Ÿ˜‚!
#bikes #cycling #food #coffee

Trevor Gibney of KOM Cycling groks the value of the Bicycling Monterey projects, including our project providing court-referred youth an alternative to paying hefty fines for traffic citations (https://bikemonterey.org/youth-bike-and-sometimes-receive-citations.html). On April 11, Trevor generously contributed a KOM Cycling Quick Release Light, 350 lumens, and Computer Mount (which also mounts light) in support of that project.

Below: Trevor and associate at KOMโ€™s booth at Sea Otter Classic 2025. To learn about their Quick Release Lights, go to: https://komcycling.com/collections/cycling-lights

#BikeCommunity #MakeADifference #cycling #bicycling #biking #KOMCycling #BikeTooter #MontereyCounty

Youth bikeโ€”and sometimes receive citations | Bicycling Monterey | Resources for Anywhere & Monterey County Biking Information Hub