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One of the smaller supporting classes at the World Championship of Custom Bike
Building is the Production Manufacturer class. However, despite the small number
of entries there is always a wide range of styles, and in 2013 the winning bike
was the retro-style Naughty Gentleman from the UK’s Second City Customs

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N the World Championship
of Custom Bike Building the
majority of class-winning
bikes are chosen by the
competitors themselves.
However, there is one class where this is not
the case. In the Production Manufacturer
class, the winning bike – Second City
Customs’ The Naughty Gentleman – was
selected by Steve Iggens, President of S&S
Cycle, who was considered a natural choice
to judge the class given the popularity of
his company’s product range among small
volume production outfits.
The prize Ian Cushing of Second City took for the
class win was a TÜV compliant S&S engine in
recognition of Second City creating a motorcycle
that was in Iggens’ view “innovative, visually
arresting, and above all, rideable.” Commenting
further on his choice Iggens said: “Building a great
looking bike is one thing, but at S&S Cycle we make
high performance parts, and they aren’t much use in
a bike you can’t ride.”
Iggens’ choice of The Naughty Gentleman as the
class winner was no doubt helped by the fact that
the bike had been built around an S&S Cycle
P-Series motor. Due to the bike being designed as a
production model the engine was left stock with just

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a simple tear drop air cleaner and a set of fishtail
exhausts dressing it up.
Backing the motor up is a BDL open primary and a
five-speed transmission. However, this is one area
where the bike has received extra detailing, with
hand-engraving on the clutch pulley cover. There is

further engraving work on the distributor, oil filler,
fork nut cover and battery cover.
The design motif of the engraving echoes that of the
gold leaf detailing on the paint work on the bike,
which was applied by Re-born to be Wild.
With a drivetrain package in place Second City

Second from left, Ian Cushing
and Second City Customs team

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