Biking in Santa Barbara
Interested in bike riding in Santa Barbara? You've come to the right place.
Santa Barbara hosts a ton of different resources for every type of bicycle rider, from the enthusiast to the beginner. Whether you're looking for mountain biking, road cycling, bicycle touring, beach cruising, or group tandem riding, Santa Barbara has all the resources you need to get started. If you're just here for the weekend, there's a wide selection of stores that rent a variety of different types of bicycles just for the day. Not much compares to a sunny ride under the palm trees on the East Beach bike path, on your way to a fresh scoop of ice cream on the pier. If you've got a group of friends or family members looking for a tandem-ride, the rental sites on lower State Street or Cabrillo Boulivard offer bikes fitting up to 8 riders at once! Looking to take your riding to the next level and buy a bike of your own? There are tons of bike shops in the downtown Santa Barbara, Montecito, and Goleta areas with extensive selections of bicycles and biking gear. For more serious road cyclists, Santa Barbara is proud of the various charity-based bicycle tours and races hosted here throughout the year. The Santa Barbara mountains and parks provide many different trails for mountain biking, ranging from beginning level all the way to extreme expert. Lastly, for the leisurely rider just looking for a comfortable way to get across campus, you can find a plethora of classic beach cruisers sold new and used all around the Santa Barbara area.
Our Free Local Guide
Here on the Santa Barbara Bicycle website we've compiled a free directory of local bike shops, rental places, and other bike resources. Feel free to use our free site to locate any local bicycle resources you might need, and follow any of the links for more detailed descriptions and customer reviews, courtesy of SBClick. On the
Driving Directions page, you can find quick and easy directions
from your house to any of the bicycling stores listed in the free
directory. If you want to map out a cross-town route, you're going to need a few stops along the way to refuel on food or coffee; use our sister sites Santa Barbara Coffee Shops, Santa Barbara Health Food, or Santa Barbara Pizza to map out some tasty stops (or a final destination...) Last of all, don't forget to check ahead of time for bike-friendly weather on our Custom Weather Report page. Enjoy!
