About the above photo:  I am sitting on a Yamaha R1 race bike, in the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, located in Belfast, Ireland.  This particular bike was raced at the Isle of Mann TT race that year (http://www.iomtt.com) in the hands of Dave Jefferies (he won his class).  The curator was kind enough to allow me to sit on the bike for a photo op while we were there.

The picture was taken in December of 2003, during a Youth Foreign Missions trip I led from our church.  We visited a few churches in Northern Ireland, helping out with music, preaching, and outreach.  The rest of the time we did cool tourist stuff like this.  What a fun time that was!