A Legend Bike Co. builder page · primary sources: Bill Ryan and Legend Bike Co's Hi-Tech BMX and Voris Dixon pages, the Voris Dixon / Snakebite BMX interview, and BMX history forums

Will Scurto

Pro Neck, the National Pro, and the Family Behind Hi-Tech's Second Life

At a glance

Family Son of Mike Scurto, founder of Pro Neck (originally Tuf Neck Inc.), Diamond Bar then Pomona, California
Era Late 1970s Tuf Neck stem years through today
Brand Pro Neck / National Pro, continued today as Original Pro Neck
Known for Confirming, firsthand, how his father turned the Hi-Tech BMX frame design into the Pro Neck National Pro after Hi-Tech shut down in 1984

A spelling note before anything else: it is Will Scurto, not Surto. That is the family name behind Pro Neck and the National Pro, documented on Legend Bike Co's own Hi-Tech BMX and Voris Dixon Bikes pages, in the Voris Dixon / Snakebite BMX interview, and across BMX history forum threads going back years. This page uses the documented spelling throughout.

Will Scurto grew up inside a Southern California BMX brand his father built from a stem company into a full frame line. He is also the direct link in one of the more interesting handoffs in early-1980s BMX history: the frame Bill Ryan designed and built at 13 years old, under his own short-lived Hi-Tech BMX label, became a production BMX bike for another decade under Will's family roof — with Will himself confirming, years later, exactly how that happened.

From Tuf Neck to Pro Neck, a family business

Will's father, Mike Scurto, ran the company behind the Pro-Neck stem — the bulldog-logo stem that shows up on race bikes throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. The company traded under Tuf Neck Inc. in its earliest years and was re-incorporated as Pro Neck Inc. in the early-to-mid 1980s, moving its operation from Diamond Bar to Pomona, California, around the same period. What started as a single product, the Pro-Neck stem, grew into a full catalog of frames, forks, and bars carrying the Pro Neck and, later, National Pro names. Will and his father raced GTs before the family's own frame line existed, according to a pictorial that ran in BMXA in July 1980.

The Hi-Tech handoff, and the frame that became the National Pro

The National Pro frame's real origin sits one step back from Pro Neck itself. Bill Ryan built the Hi-Tech BMX frame in 1982, at 13 years old, working with Voris Dixon and Voris Dixon Company (VDC) out of a bedroom in Cypress, California. Twenty-five frames got built before a naming-conflict legal threat forced Bill to shut Hi-Tech down in 1984.

Voris Dixon and Mike Scurto were friends, and when Hi-Tech folded, Voris handed the frame design to Mike. Voris confirmed the mechanics of that handoff directly, in his own words, in an interview conducted by Jay Stark and published on snakebitebmx.com: asked whether he came up with the center brace between the top and down tubes that appears on the National Pro, Voris said, "No, Mike did that. And those broke. They broke because they concentrated too much energy right there." Elsewhere in the same interview, Voris confirms the broader mechanics of how Pro Neck's frames came to exist: "Mike Scurto owned Pro Neck. Gary Turner had the seat tube going through the top... Then Mike Scurto at Pro Neck wanted a frame like that. So, I made it." Put together, the sequence is: Bill Ryan designs the Hi-Tech frame at 13, Voris Dixon builds it, Hi-Tech shuts down in 1984, Voris hands the design to Mike Scurto, and Mike adds the center brace and releases it as the Pro Neck National Pro. Voris built the frame. Mike added the brace. Neither one built the whole thing alone.

Bill Ryan has spoken with Will Scurto directly about this account and confirmed it holds up on both sides of the handoff (source: Bill Ryan, firsthand, 2026). That direct family confirmation is what makes the Hi-Tech-to-National-Pro lineage more than just Voris Dixon's word alone — it is corroborated by the family on the receiving end of the design.

The jigs at the Pomona dump

BMX history forums carry a harder story from later in the Scurto family's run with Pro Neck: after Mike Scurto passed away, Will has said his father, before he died, got upset about something in the business and had the National Pro frame jigs hauled to the Pomona dump and destroyed by tractor, rather than let anyone, including Will, keep using them. The exact circumstances behind that decision are not spelled out in the record available to us, and this account comes from community forum recollection rather than a formal interview, so it is presented here as such rather than as a fully documented fact.

Carrying it forward, Original Pro Neck

Will Scurto still builds Pro Neck and National Pro product out of Southern California today, under the banner Original Pro Neck. The current operation describes itself as family-run, tracing back to the late 1970s, with the same devotion to the original stem, frame, and parts designs that made Pro Neck a name on 1980s start lines. Will remains active promoting the brand and, by recent accounts, has planned a bulldog-logo stem update in keeping with the company's original 1979-1980 branding.

Where the public record runs thin

Will Scurto's birth date and a full personal biography are not documented in the sources checked for this page. The exact date Mike Scurto passed away, and the full circumstances behind the destroyed National Pro jigs, are not confirmed beyond community forum recollection. The precise years Will took over day-to-day operation of the family business are not pinned down here. What is well corroborated, across Bill Ryan's firsthand account, the Voris Dixon interview, and multiple independent BMX history sources, is the core lineage: Hi-Tech to Voris Dixon's build to the Scurto family's National Pro.

Where Will Scurto fits in the bigger story

Brands: Hi-Tech BMX, Voris Dixon Bikes (VDC), GT Bicycles. People: Bill Ryan. The bigger arc is in our History of BMX series.

Sources

Bill Ryan, founder of Supercross BMX and Legend Bike Co — firsthand account of the Hi-Tech BMX frame, its handoff through Voris Dixon to Mike Scurto, and direct confirmation of the account with Will Scurto, as published on our Hi-Tech BMX page. "BMX Icons // Voris Dixon Interview," conducted by Jay Stark, hosted at snakebitebmx.com — primary source for the Pro Neck / National Pro build and the center-brace detail, quoted directly above. Legend Bike Co, Voris Dixon Bikes (VDC) page — corroborating detail on the Pro Neck contract-build relationship. BMXmuseum.com forum threads, "Pro Neck (NOT Tuf Neck) timeline," "NATIONAL PRO ~ PRO NECK," and "Pro Neck, National Pro, History Wanted" — community-sourced detail on the Tuf Neck to Pro Neck transition, the Diamond Bar to Pomona move, and the account of the National Pro jigs; these are JS-rendered community forums and are cited here as community recollection, not verified record. originalproneck.com — the current Original Pro Neck operation. oldschoolmags.com was checked and returned a period road test PDF of the Pro-Neck National Pro but no additional biographical detail on Will Scurto; bmxsociety.com was checked and returned no independent results beyond the forum threads already cited.