One of the key parts of motorcycling is making your ride unique to your taste. Motorcycling is all about the shared passion and individual style. Motorcycle customization has become big business driven by this need to take a showroom stock motorcycle and "Pimp" it out if you will. The demand for aftermarket parts has created a huge startup with ma and pa stores. Small time fabricators are designing custom pieces for their favorite motorcycles and offering them to the masses.

This is not to say that the major motorcycle corporations have not taken notice. Honda offers their very popular VTX motorcycle models in 13 different customization styles. You can mix and match to your heart is content. Victory motorcycle has also jumped into the customization game by offering customer a Custom Order Program. Victory basically lets the customer build the bike online the way the customer wants it by picking from the various custom options. Victory started this program back in 2004 and have been running it ever since. Most notibly with the Victory Hammer and now the extreme custom Victory Jackpot model. With the Ness team providing styling input for the Victory line, the customer ends up being the real winner here.

Victory is a breath of fresh air on the popular V-Twin cruiser market. They offer sharp stylish looking machines that actually are well built and perform really well. Harley-Davidson needs to take note. While Harley-Davidson business model has switched to making dealerships have multi-acre showrooms selling nothing but clothing, Victory came in under the radar and listened to their customers and provided them what they want -- a stylish reliable high performance machine. Harley Davidson owners are quickly trading in their motorcycles for Victory Hammers, Vegas, Jackpots, and Kingpins. You will find it very difficult to find many Victory motorcycles on the showroom. No it is not that they are now just selling clothing like Harley dealers, but that they cannot keep the Victory motorcycles in stock.

The beauty of Victory is that they offer a diverse styling package for their bikes so that they do not just produce a cookie-cutter clone bike like Harley Davidson did with their 100th Anniversary edition bikes. How boring. Everyone bought one thinking it would be unique only to find out that Harley had way overproduced these bikes and forced them down the throats of the dealerships. Now everyone and their mother own one. No unique styling. No with the popularity of the Victory motorcycle growing more each year we are starting to see more shops start to produce quality aftermarket parts and accessories for your beloved Victory. The best way that I have found to keep informed of the latest products and upgrades is to monitor the various Victory motorcycle enthusiasts sites like the Victory Kingpin Cruisers site at http://www.kingpincruisers.net -- This site is Victory Kingpin-centric but it also discusses all late-model Victory motorcycles and touches on customization tips, products, and maintenance tips and articles. The manufacturers also monitor these sites to get an idea of what their customers are saying. It is a great way to keep informed and benefits everyone.

So now you have your new Victory Kingpin sitting in your garage, you receive heaps of compliments and love to ride the machine. But after awhile you start thinking about upgrades and customizations. Maybe these came to you in your sleep or by looking at someone else