Evan Steel’s earliest memories are of riding with his dad on his Yamaha two stroke café racer when he was 4 years old. Throughout his youth, he, his father and older brothers were always racing- bicycles, horses, cars or motorcycles ... and Evan always wanted to go faster! As he grew up, he cracked open cars, bikes, lawn mowers and whatever else he could find, interested in their mechanics and in how to improve their performance.  At age 17, Evan attended MMI, a trade school for motorcycle mechanics, and graduated in 1992, in the top 5% of his class. Since then, he has plugged away in various motorcycle shops, built project bikes for numerous magazines, worked for team Valvoline Suzuki, as well as collaborating with many of the top performing road racers in the US and Canada, including Jake Holden, Robertino Pietri, Steve Rapp, Vincent Haskovec, Frank Aragaki, Jeremy Toye, Ben Thompson, Chris Peris, Royce McLean, Tony Kasper and Kevin Lacombe.  Throughout his career, Evan has immersed himself in the full spectrum of racing motorcycles: engine building, chassis geometry, electronics and suspension.  Of these, suspension tuning has captured his keen enthusiasm the most.

In 2004, Steel left Valvoline Suzuki and started his own performance shop, ESP.  Since opening shop, Evan has been doggedly pursuing his dream of small team motorsport domination.  He is particularly proud to have been involved with the following projects:

- Running the Factory Toyota Yamaha team in the Parts Canada Superbike Championship, with multiple podiums in Superbike and 600 Pro Sportbike, finishing third overall for the season in Pro Sportbike.
- Top privateer team with ESP and rider Chris Peris, in the 2008 AMA Superstock Championship, 5th overall and a podium at the VIR event.
- Ben Thompson and ESP qualified on pole and led laps at the Mid-Ohio AMA Superbike race, won multiple ASRA and WERA National races and won the Suzuki Cup Finals.
- In 2009 Josh Day and ESP won the AMA Supersport East Division Championship.
- In 2011 Evan got the chance to crew chief for the Iron Horse BMW/ESP Superbike team.  They achieved two front row qualifying positions, and a top five finish in the AMA Superbike class.