Canadian Armed Forces Motorcycle Display Team

Canadian Armed Forces Motorcycle Display Team
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Active	1966 – 1967
Garrison/HQ	Kingston Ontario

This article is about the 1966-67 Motorcycle Display Team. For the 1953-56 Team, see Royal Canadian Corps of Signals Despatch Rider Display Team.

An RC Sigs Motorcycle Display Team, officially called the Canadian Armed Forces Motorcycle Display Team, was formed in 1966 under Capt J.E. Burman to take part in the Armed Forces Tattoo that toured across Canada to large and enthusiastic audiences as part of Canada’s Centennial Celebrations in 1967.^[1]^[2] The team consisted of 37 riders and were accompanied by 4 men from RCEME under Cpl Andre Leveque to maintain the motorcycles^[3].

Sergeant (Ret'd) G. Michael Comeau recollects:

In 1966, I had the pleasure of being assigned to a Canadian Centennial, celebration activity; namely, the Canadian Armed Forces Motorcycle Display Team. After intensive trick rider training for a full year, we travelled from "coast to coast" in 1967, performing 125 shows over a period of 6 months. You can imagine the thrill and excitement of actually being "paid" to do tricks and stunts as the "starring attraction" in most towns and cities we visited! We had 21 broken bones, during our training year and "wrote-off" 20 motorcycles, as "scrap-for-parts". While on tour, we only had one serious accident, but everyone recovered.^[4]