IronLaws...

Nice work, Americans can still innovate

The Formative Years:

Never compromise passion, intensity, time or money. Create through deep
considered actual individual emotion. Perfect a balance of technology
and the primitive. Invest absolute faith. Overbuild. Maximise and
evolve Individual Craftmanship. Relish the challenge. Persist
eternally. These Iron Laws are the mainstay of the Confederate
platform, and set the foundation for the design parameters of each
Confederate motorcycle:

- Absolute chassis integrity with no frame flex
- Complete powertrain integrity with no crank to output shaft flex
-Total fatigue resistance with no core deterioration
- Powertrain mounting system machined from billet aluminum
- Precise hand craftsmanship
- Re-buildable by hand
- Maintenance simplicity
- American ergonomic scale
- Umcompromised component specification
- Absolute minimal overall weight
- Absolute minimal un-sprung weight

With these laws and parameters in mind, the first year, 1991, was
invested in researching the top engineering and fabrication talent to
facilitate the creation of the new Confederate brand of American
motorcycles. In early 1992 the company moved to San Francisco. The
designs for the patented proprietary chassis and power train mounting
system, the platform architecture for all Confederate machines, were
frozen in late 1993. During March of 1994, operations were relocated to
our 6,000 square foot prototype shop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. On
November 11, 1994, Veteran's Day, our first motorcycle was fired up.
The ride proved everything we hoped for. It possessed "world class"
chassis dynamics. But there was something more that was hard to define,
yet easily felt. The bike was pure, individual, and exotic. The machine
eminated grace, power, strength, virility, and a fiercely American
identity.

The New American Machine

built . All of them were handmade in small batches to ensure the
highest level of craftsmanship in each individual motorcycle. The G1
Hellcat revolutionized the American cruiser. Early riding impressions
by professional motorcycle journalists affirmed what we already knew.
Our new proprietary platform architecture was far superior to that of
any competitor. In the winter of 1999 the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office verified this revolutionary design as the strongest, most
durable, flex free, and rigid chassis and non-unit powertrain mounting
system in the world by granting patent number 005857538A.

Refining The Dream
After 11 years of testing and refining our patented proprietary chassis
and power train mounting system, we began the arduous task of designing
the second generation Hellcat. The F124 Hellcat incorporated everything
we've learned about high performance American motorcycles. With the
addition of evolutionary technological advances, the bike was even
lighter and faster. The legendary handling was vastly improved and rear
wheel power greatly increased. Our newest motorcycle delivered the
smoothest, yet most controlled ride in the industry. The F124 Hellcat
was the best machine we had ever created. And now, with introductions
of a true proprietary engine to mount in our patented "F" platform as
well as the new "B" platform on which the Wraith was conceived, we
begin a new era.

http://www.confederate.com/CMpages/CMmachines.html

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