CONCORD, N.C. (December 4, 2009) — The USARacing Pro Cup Series champion will win more than bragging rights in 2010 thanks to Crane Cams and S&S Cycle, which have joined forces to create a custom motorcycle for next year’s title holder.

The 2010 USARacing Pro Cup champion custom motorcycle will be unveiled at the Performance Racing Industry Show in Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 10 at 10:30 a.m.  in the USARacing Pro Cup Series booth #4559.

 However, before the USAR Pro Cup champion can walk away with the custom bike, the competitor must make it through 16 of the toughest short tracks in the Southeast and Midwest. In the 2010 season, the series will travel to historic tracks such as North Wilkesboro Speedway, Rockingham Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway and South Boston Speedway.

 The 2010 USAR Pro Cup champion is not the only one who will have a chance to walk away with a custom bike. Viola, Wis.-based S&S Cycle, the world’s leading independent manufacturer of V-twin powerplants, is giving one lucky fan the new “X-Wedge” engine. The engine, worth more than $10,000, is identical to the one used in the champion’s bike.

 Crane Cams has been a participant in the USAR Pro Cup Series for years. Pro Cup competitors exclusively use its HI-6 ignition systems. Many USAR teams also use the Crane Cams Oval Track Pro Race distributors, as well as Crane camshafts and valve train components.

The USARacing Pro Cup Series, formerly Hooters Pro Cup, is owned by Interstate Investment Group (IIG) and is based in Concord, N.C. IIG is comprised of Jack McNelly, Gary Kale, Carl Hubbard, Chip Lofton and Larry Camp, who serves as the managing partner. For more information on the USARacing Pro Cup Series, go to www.usarprocup.com.

 
Back in 2005 one of my very best friends, Steve Martin, asked me to lay some fresh paint on his Road King. Steve wanted Vikings purple on his king because he’s always been a die hard Minnesota Vikings fan and, thanks to a Former Green Bay Packer, they’re looking like they may make the Super Bowl and actually win it this year!

The paint job incorporates burnished bare metal, which is done easily enough on the tank and fenders because they’re actually steel, but when Steve asked me to duplicate that effect on the H-D hardbags he wanted installed on the bike as well as the mid-frame covers and fiberglass Hoppe Industries Quadzilla  fairing, well that was an entirely new challenge. The difference between the real steel and the ‘fake’ steel is so slight you really have to look at it closely to tell the difference. How’d I do it you ask? Nope – ain’t tellin’. 

Be sure to check out the Jan/Feb issue of IronWorks Magazine DOUGZ handled a Paint & Install article on one of the fabulous HogTunes Tweeter Pods and 902.2 AA speakers in Tom Hudson’s Screamin’ Eagle Ultra. Plus you’ll find another installment of the multi-issue feature of Meddling Editor Paul Holdsworth’s FXRT. We took in all the worn out body panels from this high-mileage scooter and transformed them to like-new condition, which will be the focus of the April 2010 issue. If you're one of the intelligent beings on the Enewz mailing list you'll likely receive a FREE copy of the April issue. I need to submit everyone's email/physical mailing address's to IronWorks by the first of January, so its not too late to send us your mailing/email information to get on the list, and get hooked up with a FREEBIE. No I'm not going to share this information with the IRS so they can tax you on something you didn't have to pay for. We'll just call this part of the DOUGZ Stimulus Package.

Doug