“Take it a race at a time, a bike at a time, a session at a time.”
Steve Beattie
Steve Beattie’s 26 Suspension offers the best in knowledge and experience. He is well known for building and tuning flat track race suspensions and MX to DTX conversions. However, Steve also builds race tuned engines and works on MX…
We’ll never know what more he may have achieved
Roger Beaumont
Born in England in 1938, Roger like most young English lads had a good childhood with lots of activity. His cycle influence began at home where his Dad rode bikes until an accident took the life of a close friend. At 14 years of age, Roger…
“Living vicariously through his riders young and old”
Kurt Biegger
Kurt Biegger Racing has been a pinnacle team in the Flat Track racing scene for over 40 years. The mastermind behind these blazing fast bikes now lives vicariously through his riders young and old.
Kurt was a championship rider back in the…
Kurt was a championship rider back in the…
“As soon as I saw them racing bikes, I was hooked!”
Mike Crompton
Growing up in North Toronto, Mike Crompton got involved with mini-bikes and go-carts at the age of 12, and was soon hanging around the garage of local racer Don Willsmith, heading to Harewood Acres for a race in 1968: “As soon as I saw…
“The Voice of Canadian Motorcycle Road Racing”
Pat Gonsalves
When your early childhood years are spent at a race track around motorcycles, there is a strong likelihood the seed of love for motorcycle racing will be planted and indeed it was for Pat Gonsalves.
Growing up in the 1950’s in his native…
Growing up in the 1950’s in his native…
A spokesperson for women in motorcycling in 1914
Sadie Mildred Grimm
Sadie Grimm was the winner of the first motorcycling prize ever awarded in Canada to a woman in a competition open to men. The June 20, 1914 headline in the Motoring section of the Manitoba Free Press read, Lady Wins Gold Medal. What made…
“He hasn’t been stumped yet”
Nick Kemp
Nick Kemp was born in Toronto April 3, 1949, a surprise twin to parents John and Nettie Kemp. As a child, he always showed an interest in mechanical workings. To the frustration of his siblings he was most interested in working parts, but…
The thrill of NOT being strapped in is what makes him feel alive
Mike Konopacki
Mike was born March 31, 1959, in Bowmanville, Ontario. That’s 19 hours of driving, some 1254 miles north of Gainesville, Florida, where he raced in the PROSTAR series more than once, back in the day.
Motorcycling started off for Mike at a…
Motorcycling started off for Mike at a…
She drew so many new riders, mostly female, into the sport
Lise Sculland
Lise Sculland began her long and amazing riding career in 1955 by dropping her immaculate bike, a 1954 Harley KH, on her first attempt. Some riders who have had similar experiences never got back on a bike again, but Lise has never been a…
The drive of curiosity and just doing what he loves
Ted Wilkins
Ted Wilkins was an active and very successful competitor in the AMA Pro Hill Climbing Circuit from 1984 – 2000. He started out on a modified Triumph and in 1990 built a custom made, multi time winning, Rotax snowmobile engined, nitro…