Bikes to move bikes: Sound to Mountain Bike Fest and century ride 08-10-10
Recently I picked up a haulin’ colin trailer from his new stock line. I’m trying my best to be car free and one of my biggest challenges was moving frames, bike parts and complete bikes. After testing it out for a few day by taking a friend for a ride and trying to coax my dog into the back (didn’t work) I felt up to the challenge to ride to the Sound to Mountains Bike Fest where we were setting up a booth. My plan was to take three bikes and my Mission Workshop rolltop bag in the trailer.
Waking up at 5 AM to make the ride wasn’t an easy undtertaking, but it would turn out to be one of the easier tasks of the day. I forgot how quiet Seattle streets are at that hour. I also forgot how not many coffee shops in my area are are open that early so after taking my normal route the first stop was Starbucks on Leschi.
From here the hard begins. My route followed the path out to factoria, and then over to the trail that parallells i90 into Issaquah which is quite nice.
From here I had two choices, take a gravel path along i90 for an unknown number of miles and then take some unknown roads, or take Issaquah-Fall City road. I opted for Issaquah fall city road which rolls is way towards my destination in North Bend on some beautiful roads. The only sucky part was climbing up to Snoqualmie falls with no shoulder.
scotty said:
dude. kickass.
Jesse Perrell said:
Geoff! I didn’t completely absorb what you were planning when you mentioned over the phone you might not be the first one there Sunday! Seriously awesome, it was so cool to have you at STMB our first year. Plotting next year. Sounds like adding a 60mile route and a second music stage; should have a date by end of next week.
bill meadows said:
nice!!!! an inspiration for sure!