Sunup to Sundown Ride
 

It's been a while since I've been on the SS FG forum. This year I have been riding MTB and vintage road bikes alot and neglecting my fixed gear for most of the summer. On Sunday I dusted it off and did a day long ramble.
The route
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/141857863

I started in North Bend soon after sunrise. Mt. Si in the background.
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000258.jpg
It was a cold and foggy morning. I climbed above the fog to warm up on Snoqualmie Ridge.
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000261.jpg
It was short lived, chilly fog again when I dropped down to the lower Snoqualmie Valley, riding westward along the Issaquah - Fall City Road.
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000267.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000266.jpg
The fog cleared for good by the time reached Bellevue. Here is the I90 trail in Bellevue.
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000270.jpg
I stop and look back across the floating bridge when I reach Seattle
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000274.jpg
And looking back from Alki in West Seattle
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000277.jpg
I have meant to stop many times before to take a photo of this artwork on a house in Alki. Today was the day
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000279.jpg

Took the ferry over to Vashon island. I rode south along the east side of the Island. http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000294.jpg
Along the way I stopped and visited briefly with my Brother and his son. The it was off to the south side to take the ferry back to Tacoma. While waiting for the ferry, I snapped a few photos.http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000299.jpghttp://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000305.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000298.jpg
Point Defiance in Tacoma. Thanks WSF
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000308.jpg
I am now out of my comfort zone. I don't know this area very well but eventually I make my way thru Tacoma and up north to Bellevue and then head east, shadows getting long. I know I am running out of daylight. http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000311.jpg
Out comes the phone to call my wife for a pickup in Issaquah about 20 miles or so short of home. I wait for her at the Issaquah Brewhouse. An Ice cold IPA is a fitting end to a day like this. http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...d/P1000315.jpg
I had forgotten how much I like riding my fixed gear.

Frickin sweet

Classy bike, great pictures and story. :thumb:

that is awesome.

wish i could do something like that.

Jealous.

did kinda the reverse of that the other day with my wife (minus 40 miles from your east side jaunt)

vashon is stellar riding!

Excellent!! (now I'm jones'n for some moustache bars)

Sounds like you had quite a day to remember!
That's one sweet ride as well. I happen to have one in pearlscale white as an on going project of mine:

http://imageshack.us/a/img254/9021/79698407.png
(iphone pics do no justice)