I ordered the black ones sight unseen and Travelin Man has shipped me the set shown above.  When I get them I'll document the install, show one side mounted compared the the Gatling Tip on the other side, and try to record any sound differences between the two.  I have S1/L1 exhaust.

I know we are excited about this project and Travelin Man and Bluto have done a great job getting it done.  You can tell T-Man is pumped-up when he is taking pictures right out of the box and they haven't even reached room temperature yet!  Stand by for news.

You are sooo right Songfan! I am stoked and these guys have done an outstanding job bringing these to life and in putting up with us impatient end users!

 Now has anyone figured out if they can use these bad boys with the Thrush exhaust mod??

The UPS guy showed up with the black tips 5 minutes before I walked out the door to come to work tonight.  They were shrink-wrapped to cardboard backing and the box was loaded with styro-peanuts.  Everything looks flawless.  I took out one base and one cone and set them on the kitchen table in the sunlight.  They are exactly how I envisioned.  The photo shown above is too black.  Those look almost painted.  There is a lot more detail in the machining apparent when you see the real thing.  The actual color is a gunmetal super dark silver/black.  Like T-Man explained in the post above, they look different in different lighting.  They don't look anodized, you can tell that they put a real thin layer of black over chrome.  It will be impossible to get the nuances of different hues in a photo. 

I won't get to mess with these until tomorrow morning so if anyone has any requests on what they'd like to see before I get them installed, reply here tonight.

Woo Hoo!  Thanks T-Man!

Hey Mark,

I thought the same thing about them looking too black in the photo above.  I just had faith that the real thing would look like I hoped.  If you have ever seen black chrome in person, it is stunning.  I have a Midnight Cherry bike and thought that the all-black tips would stand out too much but when I looked at my  bike, there is lots of black.  The trunk edges/speaker grills, seat, backrests, floorboards and grips.

One of the cool effects lost in the black photo compared to the chrome photos is the reflection on the chrome bullets.  The turbine fins look very cool reflected on the chrome bullets and disappear in the black photo above.  In real life sunlight, the black ones show that reflection.

I picked the all-black tips because that one feature will break my bike out of the pack from a long way off (plus I won't be as anal about soot).  Any color/finish combination of these tips will be awesome.