2026 El Camino Real Ride (Santa Clara to Menlo Park)

SVBC’s 6th annual ride to call for a safer & more vibrant ECR, 4 stops along the way for free refreshments from highlighted local businesses

Please join SVBC for our 6th Annual El Camino Real Ride. This year, we celebrate enormous progress in Mountain View, Los Altos, and Palo Alto. In October 2025, Caltrans repaved El Camino and installed painted bike lanes with physical flex post divisions!

This ride remains a call to action: for continued safety improvements to prevent injuries and fatalities on El Camino Real, and for safer access for bicyclists and pedestrians to use this direct and convenient corridor. For more information on SVBC’s work on El Camino Real, visit our ECR webpage.

During this ride, we will cycle at a relaxed pace through Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Menlo Park and stop for free refreshments along the way. If you want to do only part of the route, you are welcome to join at any of the locations you’d like!

At this fun and safe ride, Bike Buses will take over the right-most car lane as a group (in addition to the bike lane if any), cars will politely go around us using the other lanes, and we will follow all traffic laws. Our ride is a rare and safe opportunity to experience riding on this convenient and direct route which very few people normally choose to ride. Note: This ride is not like San Francisco’s Critical Mass which does not yield right-of-way to car traffic. We will ride as vehicular traffic and stop at all traffic lights. Volunteer ride support will work to keep the group together so that nobody falls behind or gets separated.

The full route we will ride is 17 miles long, starting from the Santa Clara Caltrain station and ending in Menlo Park. We will be riding on El Camino Real the entire way except for short detours to the rest stops.