Resources

Safety & Security

Protect Your Ride: Use these for best practices for locking and parking your bike to help deter bike thieves.
Registry & Recovery: How to register your bike to make recovery more likely should it be stolen.
Report a Hazard: How to report hazards such as potholes, road debris, missing or fallen signs, or obstacles in bike lanes.
Commuting: How to safely commute by bicycle to work, using both cycling and public transportation.

These are local Sacramento region organizations that address the needs of cyclists.

The Bike Campaign: along with its counterpart, The Bike Garage, the Bike Campaign helps educate people about bicycling and encourages more people to ride their bikes.
The Bicycle Kitchen: a community-centered bicycle shop formed in order to promote cycling as a low-cost, alternative form of transportation; enable self-sufficiency through knowledge of bicycle maintenance; and promote bicycle safety through education and classes.
Your Essential Guide to Sacramento's Cycling Scene, by The Railyards
People for Mobility Justice operates with loving accountability, joy, and solidarity centered on black and brown communities in order to transcend systems of oppression and violence.
Biking While Black: Continuing to ride through decriminalization, disenfranchisement & gentrification.

The California Bicycle Coalition is your voice in the Capitol for state policies that enable your community and your neighbors to feel safe and comfortable biking.
Learn about the Idaho Stop: Some states in the US allow cyclists to legally treat stop signs as yield signs, which has been found to be safer.

Bicycling Means Business: The Economic Benefits of Bicycle Infrastructure, Advocacy Advance: A comprehensive overview that demonstrates benefits for retail sales and visitor spending.
Bicycling Means Business: How Cycling Enriches People and Cities, Streetsblog
Bikenomics, Grist: Collected posts from Portland bike activist Elly Blue. The full collection was published in 2013 as a book by the same title.
Bikes Aren’t Just Good for You, They’re Good for the Economy Too, Fast Company
Economic benefits of bicycling, Alta Planning: Extensive bibliography that touches on property value and business impacts, jobs and the bike industry, the environment, health, trails and more.
How Bicycles Bring Business, Momentum Magazine
Shoppers on bike are good for business, Toronto Star: Concise introduction to some basic principles about the economic benefits of bicycling.