Kevin Worrall - Obituary

This message is posted with terrible sadness and heartache. Our dear friend Kevin Worrall Chief Motorcycle Instructor of the Canadian Motorcycle Association passed away on Friday, April 24, 2026. He was our Chief, mentor and our friend, and was our backbone to the CMA Gearing Up rider training and M2 exit rider training programs. Kevin began instructing with the CMA in 1999. 

Riding motorcycles for Kevin was always a passion. He bought his first motorcycle at the age of 16. He would frequently stare out the window at his bike while he sat in high school classes. Riding his motorcycle he felt free. It was an escape from the world to be one with his bike. He most of all enjoyed leaning the motorcycle. He said the best part about riding a motorcycle was curves.  One of his favourite places to travel to on his motorcycle was the Tail of the Dragon Deals Gap in Tennessee and North Carolina. 318 curves in 11 miles. It is one of the places every motorcyclist should visit. His goal this summer was to make it back down there on his 2003 Yamaha FZ1. He was especially proud of how many kilometres were on his bike. He currently has 336712 km. 

Kevin believed in every word he taught and spoke for both of our rider training programs. He was a firm believer in safety, wearing proper riding gear, making sure that it fit and making sure all of our course participants received proper training before they rode motorcycles on the road. Kevin spoke a great deal about conspicuity the art of being visible on the road. He was also asked if you could give one piece of advice to a new rider what would it be.  His response was leave space. Create a gap. Minimum 2-3 second following distance. If you have time, you have space and if you have space, you have time.  

In-between instructing and working most of our rider training programs, Kevin spent hours upon hours making sure our training motorcycles worked and ran to the best of their abilities. His goal was to keep cost down so he would spend his time in a parking lot tinkering and troubleshooting until non-working training motorcycles would run.  

Kevin was also a train the trainer with Serco (Ministry of Transportation) and Georgian College. He was a high school teacher and was in the Canadian Military for 23 years.  

The motorcycling community has lost a fabulous, selfless, intelligent man. He was a great Instructor, a talented rider and most of all, a very good friend.