The Southwest Seattle Historical Society (SWSHS) invited residents to bike into history as the Second Annual SWSHS Bike Tour returned to West Seattle June 7. About a dozen riders started the tour at the Log House Museum.

Beach Drive residents Bill and Kathy Johnston rode their matching blue fold bicycles.

"They are designed to fit in Samsonite suitcases to pack onto a plane," said Bill. "We've flown to the Grand Canyon to ride."

The Log House Museum's Sarah Frederick led the tour while on her well-traveled, red Peugeot bicycle. The rear rim has a blue stripe, the front, a white stripe.

"These are the colors of the French flag," she quipped of her French bicycle's description.

Libby Carr, co-chair of the Seattle Statue of Liberty Plaza Project, joined the pack of peddlers.

"We've always got our heads in the future and never take time to say what got us here in the first place," said Mike Barbre, a neighbor of the museum who helped organize the ride. "Today's society forgets that. Look at what we've collected, who we were before. Take pride in that."

The Bike Tour accompanies the historical society's popular Walking Tour series, showcasing some of West Seattle’s most influential landmarks. Beginning at the Log House Museum on Alki Beach, the Bike Tour is a casual 5-mile bike ride around the Duwamish Peninsula via Alki and Harbor Avenues and West Marginal Way. Featured sites on the route include the newly reconstructed Alki Statue of Liberty Plaza, Anchor Park (formerly Luna Park) and the new Duwamish Longhouse on West Marginal Way, concluding in South Park.