Curtiss Motorcycle Co.

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Confederate Motorcycles is a boutique motorcycle design and manufacturing company that relocated from New Orleans to 2222 5th Avenue South in Birmingham following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The company was founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on April 2, 1991 by former trial lawyer Matt Chambers. The company's design department is headed by Ed Jacobs. Other designers include Brian Case, Henry Rhodes, J. T. Nesbitt and Myles Peters.

Products

  • F131 Hellcat (140 horsepower v-twin), 500 G1's produced up to 2001, 150 G2's produced between 2003 and 2007 at the rate of one per week.
  • B120 Wraith, 250 to be produced at the rate of two per week.
  • Renovatio (135 horspower v-twin), in development for production in 2009

References

  • "Mean Machines" (July 13, 2006) Black & White "Urban Living 2006" special advertising section
  • Goodman, Sherri C. (April 1, 2007) "Katrina winds blow in a Hellcat." Birmingham News.

External links

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