Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame Confirms 2025 Inductees at Atlantic Motorsport Park CSBK National Round by Kawasaki and Pro Cycle
Several key staff in the Bridgestone CSBK paddock received notification in the past few days that they would join the Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame during the upcoming induction event at the Warplane Heritage Warplane Museum on the Hamilton escarpment on Saturday, October 20.
Series announcer Frank C. Wood of Sterling, ON, has received notice he will get the prestigious Bar and Hedy Hodgson Award. Wood frequently hosts events during the Hall of Fame but will need to wait to speak on October 20.
Famed shop owner, bike builder and tuner and logistics industry insider Rob Egan of Brooklin, ON, will join the main group in the Hall. Egan has participated in the motorcycle business since the 1970’s and first earned the coveted overall Superbike motorcycle road racing National Championship with Paul MacMillan aboard a Suzuki Canada Katana in 1984.
Since then, Brooklin Cycle Racing owner Egan has worked with top Pro competitors including Frank Trombino, Michael Taylor and protégé Kevin Lacombe, and manufacturers including Honda and Yamaha.
Another new Hall of Famer with similar experience is Fast Company boss Scott Miller, a famed bike builder and team owner from the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge area of western Ontario. Miller has run teams for the Canadian branches of Suzuki, Honda, Yamaha and BMW Motorrad, with racers including Neil Jenkins, Mark Kowalski, American star Fritz Kling, 14-time CSBK Superbike Champion Jordan Szoke, Steve Crevier, and current National super star Alex Dumas.
Economy Lube/Fast Company BMW Motorrad mounted Dumas will start from second spot on the grid for Saturday and Sunday’s Feature GP Bikes Pro Superbike Feature class 22 lap races.
Other figures already inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame, working in the Bridgestone CSBK paddock at the Pro Cycle and Kawasaki backed Atlantic Motorsport Park round in Nova Scotia, this weekend, include legendary Kawasaki racer Jordan Szoke of Brantford, ON 1980’s 250cc class Grand Prix hero Clive Ng-A-Kien, originally of Guyana and now residing in Pickering, ON, helps with Elliot Vieira’s GP Bikes Ducati 955 Desmo Supersport program.
Sarnia, ON’s Steve Beattie, a top ranked flat track on the dirt ovals in the USA and Canada on Harley-Davidsons, works in CSBK for the EFC BMW effort of Feature class front runner Samuel Guerin.
One of the longest-serving and most popular racers at Atlantic Motorsport Park is Gary McKinnon, a front runner on the daunting home of the “roller coaster” back stretch since the debut of the venue in 1974.
Based in nearby Debert, Nova Scotia, McKinnon has competed aboard almost every class and manufacturer of motorcycle, and the 73-year-old currently competes in the Super Sonic Road Race School backed Lightweight Sportbike division. That class is backed by Hall of Famer Toni Sharpless, who also runs the MiniSBK Series and is Team Canada Manager for the MiniGP Ohvale Championship, typically held each fall in Spain.
CSBK founder and long-time journalist, photographer as well as television commentator Colin Fraser of North York, ON, was inducted in the class of 2023 for the Hall of Fame in Toronto. Fraser stays busy at the CSBK Nationals as part of the TSN/RDS Broadcast team.
