Motorcycling lost one of its greats on September 25 in the form of AMA Hall of Famer Norm McDonald. It's almost cliché, but it's harder to say what Norm did in the world of motorcycling compared to what he didn't do, because he did it all. He was a racer, dealer, sponsor, inventor, co-founder of K&N Motorcycles, ambassador for motorcycling in the US, and laid the two-wheeled infrastructure for the generations that would come after him.
McDonald was born on October 20, 1932, in San Bernardino, California, and like most of you reading this, he had an obsession with motorcycles from a young age. And I suspect, also like plenty of you reading this, after buying his first motorcycle at 17 years old, the first thing he did was to hide it from his parents.
That's where a lot of the similarities between us and McDonald end, because when he returned from a stint in the Navy in 1955, he went all-in on motorcycling.
