Alabama motorcycle company Confederate is considering changing its now-controversial name after the recent race riots in Charlottesville, Virginia.
One person was killed and 26 injured when a car has slammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in the town earlier this month.
Now Confederate Motors president H. Matthew Chambers says they are considering changing their name to Curtiss Motorcycles, after famous aviator and motorcycle racer Glenn Curtiss.
“I think we lost a lot a business with that name,” he told the LA Times.
“We’ve missed out on branding opportunities. So, it’s time to retire it.”
Confederate has many celebrities owners such as Nicholas Cage, Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves, and has been imported into Australia by Urban Moto Imports.
Electric future
Not only is Confederate Motorcycles considering changing its name, but also moving into electric motorcycles now that it has business links with Zero Motorcycles, of California.
Together they plan to build the Hercules powered by two Zero electric motors with about127kW of power (170hp) and a whopping 393Nm of torque.
Powerful Bomber
Meanwhile, the company has just issued their latest conventional cruiser, the FA-13 Combat Bomber.
It is their most powerful yet with a 112kW (150hp) V-twin.
The Bomber costs $US115,000 and has a billet-alloy monocoque frame, and cantilevered forks and rear monoshock.
What a bull just because of some left wing bastards bring it on if they start about my indian
I often wonder if Indian Motorcycles get any blow back because of their name and emblem.
“now-controversial”? The name has always been in extremely poor taste.
They’ve always made some extremely stylish bikes, but I could never contemplate owning a bike whose name stands for racism and treachery.
Good to hear that they might change it, and Curtiss sounds like a good choice.
Viker’s comments are those of an uneducated person!
Please have a look around at things.
You sound like you belong to the group that want Captain Cook’s statue taken down.
Learn your history and get over it.
By the way their new model called “Combat bomber” is that in poor taste too.
Ask the British and Germans also the Japanese who were bombed, along with Vietnam.
I ask you.
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