11/10/2025
Good Morning All Fellow Bikers and Customers:
Tim and I would like to thank you for your support and friendship for the past 41 years. As I am sure you are aware of by now, we have closed our retail store as of September 30th, 2025. I will continue to operate an online store which can be reached if you go to the main page of my website and click on "shop online". Give me a bit of time to get up and running as I have been very busy moving, unpacking and reorganizing. B.A. Machine clothing will be available shortly.
It has been quite the experience for us both serving our community as the years went by. We saw the introduction of the 1st evolution motorcycle in 1984 and since then have seen so many changes in the industry. We have grown up with so many of you and now a lot of you have children in motorcycling as well. A quick story...in 1974 Tim asked me if I would like to go to a bike show on Limebank Road and I said yes. We hitchhiked there from Manotick as neither of us had a license back then. Well I cannot begin to tell you how much fun and the impact that show was on me unbeknown to me. It was at a motorcycle shop called Brownsville Enterprises and there were hundreds of people and motorcycles. There were the psychedelic candy flake paint jobs, foil paint jobs, lace overlay paint jobs, every colour of the rainbow, etc. Front ends that were 8", 10" 24" overstock length, girder and springer front ends also over length, raked and stretched frames, homemade trike kits, peanut tanks to give you an idea of the widespread originality of these custom bikes. There was not a geezer glide to be seen! That was the first time I met Merilyn who is still in the bike community at the age of 75! Tim's version may be different than mine but this is my story.
Tim met the owners of Brownsville Enterprises when he was just a kid interested in anything with a motor in it...and to this day he still is. He used to take home parts that were broken to his grandfather's shop and repair them for the owners, bring them back and make some pocket money doing so...probably to buy motorcycle parts for himself. He has been kicked out of so many motorcycle shops for being a pest...always into everything including Cycle Salvage another bike shop on Flora Street he used to haunt. Tim is a story in himself, he has developed so many motors, learned what works and does not work, worked with industry leaders such as Doug Coffey of Headquarters fame. Tim developed a bathtub chamber for the evolution cylinder heads and Doug Coffey was marketing it. Alas Tim got into a motorcycle accident in front of our shop on Canotek Road and was unable to pursue it any further. Tim loves the challenge of figuring out the problem or the improvement but not the grunt work, and has become known right across the country. If you were lucky enough you got the chance to work with him and gain some of this knowledge. He is a wealth of information and technically a very smart man who has made the eyes of countless customers glaze over as he tells them the intricacies of whatever question they had asked him. He is a master of tuning on his Superflow dynameter. He can figure out where the glitches are and smooth them right out for you.
I could write a book about our experiences, our events, our customers, our friends, our rides and all that goes along with that. I will miss you all and the chats we had but I do plan on going to swap meets, and other special events. Until then...ride on and keep the rubber side down!
Peri
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