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Tell Caltrans Bikes Belong on the Road

2017 California Dream Ride Preview: Days 1 & 2

CalBike & Partners Challenge ARB’s Priorities

CalBike Hosts Webinar to Boost High-Quality Protected Bike Lanes

Key CalBike-supported Bills Clear First House

CalBike Announces Route for the 2017 California Dream Ride

Caltrans Adopts California’s First State Bike & Pedestrian Plan

Help Shape CalBike’s Next Strategic Plan

Reflecting Back on the 2017 Transportation Equity Summit and Advocacy Day

Correcting Decades of Transportation Neglect

A Complete Street Near You: SB760 Prioritizes Biking and Walking on State Roadways

What is Transportation Justice and Why Should We Care?

Amazon Is Pulling High-Speed E-Motos from California E-Bike Marketplace

May 13, 2026/by Andrew Wright

Amazon says it will no longer sell e-bikes in California that exceed state speed limits and fall outside the existing three-class system, after KCRA 3 Investigates notified the retailer that products on the company’s marketplace advertised speeds greater than 40 miles per hour, counter to California law. After KCRA contacted Amazon about those listings, the […]

Graphic with the text “2026 Bike the Vote Endorsements” over a pale green background, featuring a large translucent bicycle, radiating lines, and two interlocking orange and green circles.

CalBike’s 2026 Primary Election Endorsements

May 5, 2026/by Andrew Wright

At CalBike, we work not just to improve what policymakers decide about transportation but to improve who those policymakers are. In 2026, California needs leaders who are up to the challenge of the current moment to face the climate crisis and prioritize active transportation. Because the California Bicycle Coalition is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, we […]

Advocates sit in silhouette inside the California State Capitol, facing a bright window with a view of Sacramento’s Capitol dome and downtown buildings. A green graphic band with white bicycle icons runs along the bottom of the image.

Lobby Day Put Safe Streets on the Agenda

May 5, 2026/by Andrew Wright

Last month, CalBike Lobby Day brought advocates, community leaders, bike coalition staff, riders, parents, and local organizers into meetings with legislators and staff from across the state. Together, participants made the case for CalBike’s 2026 legislative priorities, including stronger protections against illegal e-motos being marketed as e-bikes, reforms to the Active Transportation Program, and increased […]

Making ATP Work

April 17, 2026/by Andrew Wright

Every year through the Active Transportation Program (ATP), the state invests hundreds of millions of dollars in projects meant to help people walk, bike, and access transit safely. These projects are broadly popular and growing in support among Californians of all political stripes. Fully realized ATP projects have become the cornerstone of biking networks around […]

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Don’t Punish E-Bikes for the E-Moto Problem

April 16, 2026/by Andrew Wright

California lawmakers are right to be concerned about the spread of high-powered electric devices marketed as e-bikes. There is some truth behind the now-familiar image of 12-year-olds doing wheelies through suburban streets on machines far more powerful than a legal electric bicycle. But too many of this year’s bills respond to that concern by going […]

Illustration showing a legal e-bike icon on the left and a larger high-powered electric motorcycle on the right, divided by the seal of the California Attorney General, highlighting the distinction between e-bikes and illegal e-motos.

A welcome step; now let’s see enforcement

April 15, 2026/by Andrew Wright

We are thrilled to see California Attorney General Rob Bonta alert consumers to the difference between legal e-bikes and faster e-motos. Joined in the alert by the district attorneys of Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties, the consumer notice helps draw a clearer line between legal e-bikes and the illegal high-speed electric motorcycles that […]

California Has the Tools to Stop Super Speeders. AB 2276 Would Finally Use Them.

March 13, 2026/by Andrew Wright

Most drivers slow down after a ticket; “super speeders” don’t. They’re the drivers caught going 30, 40, 50 miles per hour over the limit, often repeatedly, on roads shared with people walking, biking, and living their lives. California has fined them, given them points, and suspended their licenses. It has not been enough to dissuade […]

Demand a Better 2026 SHOPP

March 4, 2026/by Andrew Wright

Protect the Promise of E-Bikes

March 3, 2026/by Andrew Wright

Human brains are tricky; our evolution has primed us to notice novel things and categorize them separately from other more common things we have seen for years. This was helpful for our primordial cousins to quickly identify snakes, but less so for crafting thoughtful policies on bikes, and their more novel cousins, e-bikes. So with […]

Press Release: CalBike Co-Sponsors SB 1167 to Protect Consumers and Preserve Access to Legal E-Bikes

February 24, 2026/by Andrew Wright

Legislation draws a clear line between electric bicycles and illegal high-powered electric motorcycles (e-motos). SACRAMENTO — The California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike) today announced its co-sponsorship of SB 1167, introduced by Sen. Catherine S. Blakespear (D-Encinitas), legislation that strengthens consumer protections and clarifies the classifications of certain high-powered electric devices in California. SB 1167 makes it […]

Bike Buses Show Us How Mode Shift Really Begins

February 4, 2026/by Andrew Wright

There’s a familiar story we often tell in active transportation advocacy: we build safer streets, and then people will use them. That story is true, and it remains the goal. Protected bikeways save lives, expand access, and make everyday biking possible for far more people. There’s another part of the story we don’t talk about […]

Not every bicycle project begins, or ends, with a bill.

January 20, 2026/by Andrew Wright

This year, while much attention will be directed to the legislature and the legislative process advocating (and opposing) bills, CalBike will also be busy advocating at the administrative level. CalBike works through this equally important side door, pushing state agencies to act on existing law and deliver bicycle projects that are already within their power […]