‘We’ll continue to ride for him’: Calgary motorcycle community pays tribute to fallen member

A line of motorcycles drove through southwest Calgary Monday morning, honouring a bike group member who died of cancer earlier this month.

A line of motorcycles drove through southwest Calgary Monday morning, honouring a bike group member who died of cancer earlier this month.

“He was just a guy who loved riding, loved life and who loved having a good time,” says Jeff Freeman, friend of Salvatore (Sal) Fronte. “He was always there if you needed a shoulder to lean on, a buddy, someone to talk to.”

Sal was an active member of Calgary’s motorcycle community, and friends and family say it was difficult to find a place where people didn’t know him.

“Didn’t matter where we went,” Freeman says. “He always knew someone.”

Sal was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022, just one year after he and his sisters lost their mom to cancer.

“It was difficult then,” says Angela Fronte, Sal’s youngest sister. “I don’t think any of us have gotten over it, so when Sal was diagnosed, we all stayed positive and knew the fighter he was.”

Sal died at the beginning of November, but his family points to the long list of people who lined the halls to the ICU to see him as the impact Sal had on the people he met.

“He really cared about everybody, and he showed it,” Angela says of her big brother. “That was the biggest thing we all appreciated and honour about him.”