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Hayes Bryan
1992 Shadow 1100

"My bike is a black '92 Shadow 1100, with windshield and leather saddlebags.  I enjoy the low seating on it, and the handling qualities.  I also enjoy the reliability of the internal drive and the water cooling -- I've almost no maintenance problems with it -- may that continue!"

• Where do you Like to ride?
  "Fidalgo Island. Any paved back road is nice. The road from Conway through Stanwood to Arlington is a fun ride. Of course, Chuckanut Drive is always great (if there's no wet moss growing on it).  And doing the backroads from Republic back west to Okinagin was great, except for the miles of gravel construction."
  
  
• Testimony:
  

  "I remember my Lutheran Mother taking me to hear a travelling evangelist in Bozeman MT when I was 12 or 14 years old, and I stood when he made the call for commitment to Christ. So I was a believer then, but I didn't have the full realization of Christ. The Lutheran Church was good at presenting the congregation with all the major points of the Gospel, but to me God was in Heaven and my only interaction would be when I died and then joined the queue to learn my fate."
  
  "It was much later, attending a non-denominational church in Virginia and doing some reading, that I realized that God does touch lives daily -- that He'll put the urge in a boat captain to sail 5 miles out of his way so he can "happen" onto a floating survivor, or will put someone in the path of another who has a need which the first can fill."
  
  "Since then it's been an interesting trip, slowly grasping the different truths of the Gospel and realizing that, with some effort and with a lot of prayer for guidance, God will put you, step by step, in the best place for you, and let you be in on some fascinating things on the way."