Coasting the Bay: An Electric Bike Day Along Monterey’s Shore

The morning fog hovers like a curtain, thin enough that the shoreline keeps peeking through. You roll out from the plaza, tap the pedal once, and the quiet hum of an electric motor nudges you forward. The Monterey Bay Coastal Recreation Trail unspools ahead—flat, forgiving, and stitched to a coastline where sea lions bark from the jetty and gulls trace lazy arcs overhead. You drop to a lower assist setting to feel the cadence in your legs, then bump it up again for a smooth push past the working boats and the smell of salt and diesel that hangs near the wharf. This is the joy of an electric bike in Monterey: the ocean escorts you and the miles simply slide by.