by greg mACPHerSoN
Pro bike racer Dan Cryderman is wearing the #1 plate on his Pro bike and Sled Series Suzuki this season.
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an Cryderman had an exceptional year in 2013. The Pro Bike rider won his first Pro Bike & Sled Series Championship. Cryderman, who hails from Thamesville, On-
tario, took the title in the third season of PBSS competition. The series is presented by Wiseco Performance Products. “Things started to come around for us late in
the previous season,” noted the Suzuki rider, who placed third in the 2012 points race. “Since that time, we got into seven straight finals. The bike has been working like a top. The engine is running well, and we’ve achieved great consistency.” Ironically, Cryderman’s string of trips to the fi-
nals was broken in the final event of 2013. Cryderman did not race in the season opener at
Martin, Michigan, but qualified ‘number three’ at his first race of the year, at Toronto Motorsports Park’s Cayuga Dragway. He went on to win the event, beating John
Schwartz of Lancaster, New York. Cryderman had the Cayuga track all to himself
for the next event, qualifying number one and win- ning his second race of the year. For the next PBSS event, which also took place
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at Cayuga, he qualified ‘number one’ once again. He went laps, but lost in the final to Ted Glinny of Milton, Ontario, who finished runner-up in the final 2013 PBSS season standings. Cryderman got back to his winning ways at the
next race, held at the Grand Bend Motorplex. There, he qualified second and eventually took the victory over Toronto’s John Orfanidis in the final. And although he continued with
his stellar qualifying runs for the season-ender at Grand Bend, start- ing second on the ladder, he was taken out in the first round. Cryderman’s 2004 Raceworks
Suzuki is powered by a 1570-cc Vortex II engine, fueled by 48-mm Lectrons and backed up with a five- speed transmission. Cryderman has drag raced motorcycles since 1997 when he got out of university. His Suzuki can go down the
quarter-mile in under seven sec- onds, reaching speeds in excess of
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pro bike racer hitS hiS Stride en route to the pro bike & Sled SerieS title
160 miles per hour. “I want to thank Fast by Gast and Werk Per-
formance for all their help,” said Cryderman. “I also want to thank Raceworks and Pingel Enter- prises. And a big thanks to my crew, Jeremey (Van Bastelaar) and Bob (MacKinnon).” •
(left to right) Crew member Jeremey Van bastelaar, PbSS Director bruce mehlenbacher, 2013 champ Dan Cryderman and crew member bob macKinnon, at last year’s Pro bike & Sled Series banquet.
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