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Issue #048
What's New at CruiserCustomizing.com
1. CruiserCustomizing Holiday Specials
2. Featured Member: Jim Guffin and his Nitrous-Oxide VTX
1. CruiserCustomizing Holiday Specials
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Happy Holidays everyone!
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Ok, it's not even December yet but we've decided to start the Holiday shopping season a week early, that way
you'll have plenty of time to find the right gifts and get them in time for the Holidays without having all that stress.
CruiserCustomizing has grown tremendously this year and we are now a team of 7 full time employees to serve
your accessory needs. We are offering more than twice the products compared to last Holiday season and
with our buying power we are able to negotiate better deals with our vendors, this allows us to pass those savings on to you!
During the Holiday shopping sale from 11/19/03 to 12/07/03 we are offering almost all of our products at 10% or higher
discounts including free shipping for domestic orders over $100. Products from Aeromach, Kewl Metal, Progressive Suspension,
Ultraguard, Willie and Max, Jardine, K&N, Dynojet (Power Commanders), Dyna Performance, Coyote Hotrods, Kisan, Kuryakyn Hyperchargers
and ISO grips are 15% to 20% off MSRP!!!
Hurry, these Holiday specials won't last and you won't find deals like these again anytime soon.
We have also prepared a Gift Guide with great accessories that will make perfect Christmas gifts.
Don't forget to tell Santa Claus about your wish list on CruiserCustomizing!
New Feature: Email your wishlist to your friends or family.
We also have nicely designed
Gift Certificates.
They can be mailed to you or directly to your friends and are easily redeemable later on.
You can place your orders online or give us a call at 510-651-0800
(9 am to 5 pm PST Mon-Fri). If you don't get through
on the phone please leave your name and number, we'll return every call as soon as we can.
 
Also checkout the new products.
We are looking forward to serving your accessory needs
Your CruiserCustomizing Team,
Dennis, Uwe, Bill, Kyle, Al, Scott and Sue.
2. Featured Member: Jim Guffin and his Nitrous-Oxide VTX
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About two years ago the Vertex magneto in my 1931 Ford Hotrod was acting up for about the 4th time and I had an itch to go look at motorcycles. It had been almost 20 years since I spent my weekends throwing around a TT500 Yamaha, and the memories of being hit from behind on my XL175 at a stoplight the day I graduated High School had almost completely vanished - so I thought I would just go "shop". Twelve hours after I saw a VTX I owned one, and I hear the same thing from a lot of guys who saw it and fell in love with it's massive power and sweeping lines.
Not much was around back when there were only a handful of us who had this bike, so I started working on building parts with other riders I met, and it just kind of snowballed. My dad was a boat racer in Southern California, and we made most of what you see on the bike. Currently, it has an on-board air-ride suspension that raises from 9 inches to 11 1/4", a 240/40-18 Metzler in the rear, a 120/70-21 front with floating rotors, a custom 21-inch steel front fender and the rear is one I worked with to develop with Xtreme Revolution (my wife still complains about the fiberglass on the top of our hot-tub where I spend Labor Day weekend piecing the prototype together...lol). Everything has been polished and chromed, including a one-off set of forward controls by Ken Oliver, the 240 swing-arm, a one-off dual velocity stack intake I built.
I also built the brake system manifold under the lower triple tree, and it runs the linked brakes (that I really like). The license plate is another one-off, and has a dual mounting system for safety, and the V-panel on the left side runs a fuel pressure gauge and the NOS system. I built the big Maltese Cross on my rear brake assembly and it's actually my fluid reservoir, and the lights under the forwards are my front run/turn lights. The rear lights are wired as run/turn/brake and can be seen from about a half mile - they are Kuryayn LED small silver bullets.
Of course the two things people immediately gravitate toward are the paint, and the Nitrous System. The paint is by Joe Nieman of Lakewood Colorado, and he's one of the best VTX craftsman around. He not only filled the tank seam, but he also 'decked' the tank and installed a custom filler. The Nitrous is a wet system that I put together after losing a race to a buddy of mine in Daytona one US1 at Biketoberfest (by about a foot because I speed-shifted too early into 2nd gear and never got it back). We ran out to about 110mph before the cops shut us down (not pretty), so I vowed to come back with heavy artillery! The fuel and Nitrous are injected simultaneously to maintain an acceptable air/fuel ratio even as the EFI is still running, runs off a micro-switch on the throttle, and is currently set up for a 30HP punch (it dynoed without the NOS at 99.6HP before the NOS was installed....and it has not been dynoed with the Nitrous yet).
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Although I would not call it a "custom", it's about as far as I plan to take it for now. I just bought a BMW K1200RS and I'm going to try to spend a little less time in my shop, and a lot more time riding.
Jim "jimfins"
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