Pastor Dave Tinney was the victim of a vicious attack as he trained for the Seattle to Portland bicycle race in 2002.

After months of recovery and dozens of surgeries, Pastor Tinney is ready to ride again.

Tinney thought he'd never cycle again. "It's a comeback journey," he says.

It's the ride of his life -- the ride he and his college-aged daughter Becky were training for 2 and a half years ago.

"We're gonna be able to share it together and that's huge for me," says Becky Tinney.

"We will do it together, that is definitely something that is very important to me and it will be a moment of triumph," says Dave Tinney.

Tinney calls it a triumph over evil. Evil because on March 25, 2002, Tinney was training for the 200 mile ride on Newport Way in Bellevue.

That's when two teens pulled along side of him and one reached out the car window and shoved the Pastor off his bike and over his handlebars.

"It blew my mind, I didn't know how to handle it most of the time," he said.

A bible verse, Genesis 50:20, is Tinney's new mantra. "It says, 'I would not let tragedy triumph, grace is gonna be the thing that triumphs here,' " he said.

But Becky says she followed her father's lead; he was a model of grace, he forgave the teens quickly, and encouraged his family to let go of their anger.

"I would not let tragedy triumph, grace is gonna be thing that triumphs here," she said.

That's what the Red Flag on the bike is all about. It was a parishioner's idea. It serves as a reminder that grace can be born out of anything, even unthinkable acts.

Tinney's elbow was smashed, his arm broken, collarbone busted, lung punctured and brain damaged, not to mention a lot of emotional scars.

He can't ride a conventional bike, it's too jarring on his repaired body parts. But that didn't stop him. He found a trike that works just fine.

Tinney forgave the teens a long time ago.

"That's over, that's history; it's good to let it go," says Tinney.

After months of being unable to walk or even drive by the crime scene, Tinney went back.

"This place has no horrible power over me," Tinney says with a big grin as he pedals right back the spot he was left for dead in the middle of the road.

There's just one piece of unfinished business. The two need to finish the race they tried to start 2 and a half years ago.

"I'll probably cry, maybe from pain, but it will be one of the best moments of my life, to finish this with him," says Becky.

On Sunday, they know they'll cross the finish line and get that triumph over tragedy.

Tinney, his daughter Becky, and 12 members of his church will ride the full 200 miles together.

They leave Seattle Saturday morning and plan to be Portland Sunday afternoon.