Camille's Relationship with Bicycles!

I interact with bicycles on a daily basis. I take the bike shuttle every day to get to school and bike home from there which is almost always one of the best parts of my day, since I have late afternoon classes and often get to see the sun setting over the hills as I ride home. I would love to see the bike shuttle introducing more frequent routes to the downtown location, provided that enough riders use it to make up for the fuel usage of the trip. I live in a house where biking is the topic of about one out of four conversations, and I've learned a little bit about bike maintenance, just a small step toward the wealth of information I'd love to know about bikes. As a bicycle commuter, I've become much more aware in the past couple of years of the role that bicyclists play as a part of the Santa Cruz transit community. Santa Cruz is so much more bicycle friendly than my hometown, and it's often a joy to ride the streets of Santa Cruz, but personally having been hit by cars on a couple of occasions, I still think it has a long way to go in providing a safe environment for bicycling. I was recently introduced to mountain biking, which is a sport I would love to pursue further. I'm interested in learning more about why so many of the trails in Santa Cruz are illegal for mountain bikers to use, and how to open them up again for local mountain bike enthusiasts!