If you have delicate sensibilities, gird your loins before walking into Cape Cod Choppers. Owner Bruce “Lumpy” Leonard doesn’t temper his politically incorrect sense of humor for anybody – even if they’re taking notes.

Lumpy is a fixture in town and in the biking community. After 42 years at 13 Garage Street in Wareham, Cape Cod Choppers and Custom Bikes has a new location down the street, at 2476 Cranberry Highway.

The store sells parts and accessories for motorcycles, and repairs them as well. When the Rosebrook Medical Center was built, Lumpy’s business happened to be on a parcel of land that the A.D. Makepeace Company wanted for the development.

“A.D. Makepeace needed the property for the project they’ve got,” said Lumpy, referring to the development. “I didn’t want to move after 42 years, but I didn’t want to stand in the way of progress.”

Cape Cod Choppers moved to the new location three months ago, but with summer long over, it’s tough to tell whether or not business will be impacted by the change.

“You don’t see many people riding in the snow,” Lumpy pointed out.

This isn’t the first time Lumpy has had to adjust his life to accommodate change, and it certainly isn’t the toughest change he’s had to adjust to.

He used to be a “nuclear certified welder,” making space chambers (for space simulations) among other things including nuclear-powered submarines. In 1966, an industrial accident changed the trajectory of his life.

“I did it until my eye got poked out, and they retrained me to work in another business,” he said. That business was motorcycles, and he’s been at it now since 1972.

A.D. Makepeace paid for the new building, which helped ease the transition for the business.

The medical center is part of a larger vision for the area, known as "Wareham’s Business Development Overlay District." When it’s complete, the development will include a restaurant, a hotel, and retail stores.