Featured Inductee: Ron Keys - Motocross Racing

Year Inducted: 2016
Home Town: Oshawa

More about Ron Keys:
One of the most talented riders ever to race a motorcycle, Ron Keys went straight out of the gate to excel at his chosen sport. Unlike some child prodigies, his first ride on a motorcycle was at age nineteen. A few weeks after buying his first bike in 1965, he raced all corners at a local track and won. The following year Ron obtained a racing licence and, racing this same ill-prepared street bike, won the Junior Class at the Annual Canada-USA Challenge Race. In 1967, riding a proper racing motorcycle, he won all six of his first races but then had an accident that sidelined him for the year.In 1968 Ron was promoted to the Expert Class, leapfrogging the Senior Class altogether, and in August of the same year, riding a borrowed bike, won his first Expert Class race. In 1969, leading from start to finish, he won his first Canadian National Championship.From there Ron was fully sponsored on a proper racing bike and spent winters racing in California and summers in Canada. Over his short career, Ron won five National Motocross Championships, three Provincial Dirt Track Championships, one National Dirt Track Championship and a Silver Medal in the Olympics of motorcycling - the first International Six Days Enduro. For Yamaha, he won their first National Motocross Championship in Canada in all three classes, beating an American and a World Champion to do so.Retiring in 1974, Ron was inducted into the Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2008.