About us

Our mission is to create safer, healthier and more livable communities throughout California by promoting bicycling for transportation and recreation.

Our vision is a California where we all live in communities where safe streets and bike paths and trails take us wherever we want to go. By uniting California’s bicyclists — local advocates, commuters, recreational riders, and the bicycle industry — with everyone else who wants healthier, more livable communities, we can transform California.

We work in three areas:

Speaking for bicyclists in Sacramento

We work with the governor, legislators and leaders of the relevant state agencies to ensure that every state law and policy supports bicycling for transportation and recreation. The CBC’s record of legislative success at the State Capitol includes helping enact the nation’s first statewide Safe Routes to School program and California’s Complete Streets Act.

Supporting bicycling in your community

The most important decisions affecting your community are made at the local level. We help create and build the capacity of local advocacy organizations with professional development training and the sharing of best practices. The powerful Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition started out as a CBC project! The CBC is currently the fiscal sponsor of the newly organized Shasta Cascade Bicycle Coalition.

Making California a national leader

Our state’s reputation as a home of innovation is true for bicycling, too. California’s Safe Routes to School program and Complete Streets requirements are models for the nation. And we’ll continue to lead. Our representatives in Washington, D.C., the largest delegation in Congress, must understand the value of federal investments in bicycling as simple, affordable, clean and healthful transportation.

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