Steampunk Meets The Terminator In 2 New Confederate Motorcycles

I wrote a long and informative post about the raw and rugged luxury motorcycles by Confederate last October.

Since then they've improved their B120 Wraith and introduced the radical looking, part steampunk, part Terminator P120 Fighter Combat just this past month at the Quail Motorsports Gathering in Carmel during the world-renowned Pebble Beach car week.

Images below are from the unveiling of both the 2010 B120 Wraith and the 2010 P120 Fighter Combat at the Pebble Beach Concours D'elegance courtesy of Autoblog (who, in their gallery, mistakenly titled the images of the Wraith as the P120 Fighter and did not distinguish between the two bikes):

The 2010 P120 Fighter:






The 2010 B120 Wraith:





Concours D'elegance photos by Frank Filipponio / Weblogs, Inc.

THE FIGHTER

As with previous Confederate models, the new Fighter is big on power and aesthetics. Incorporating a massive 120cu motor (1966cc) into a lightweight aluminum frame, producing claimed 145 pounds-feet of torque and 160 rear wheel horsepower, the agile and powerful machine is said to take Confederate’s hallmark design to new heights.

Made primarily from aircraft-grade aluminum, the exposed inner workings of this bike make it look like a terminator itself. The radial-twin engine puts out 160 horsepower and the P120 is equipped with 4-piston Brembo brakes to handle the power. On their site, they claim that 120 of these bikes will be produced, carrying an 'introductory' price of $72,000. However, conflicting reports from The Concours D'elegance say that only 25 will be produced, two a month.

CAD renderings of the P120 Fighter Combat:



Described by Confederate Motorcycles:
The Fighter clarifies opaqueness and nullifies hype with straight-forward true to concept certitude. At the source is a classic right triangle. Proportion is classically derived. Scale is middle way. Bearing exudes structural permanence. Human integration deploys yang energy, vitality, and power in the most simple, pure and direct form. Geometry is optimized for the medium and/or long disciplined journey of sensory heightened motion.

Torque to weight is maximized. Engine, suspension and ergonomic luxury and ease of use is optimized. Materials utilization is the finest. Individual piece and component specification is highest and best. Craft preparation and specification is uncompromised. The aesthetic is fresh, industrial, sculptural, holistic and honest. The saddle of the Fighter is your place for those outings which require extended time, geography, meditation and distance.




Here's a video of the first build of the bike:


P120 Fighter Combat Specs:
ENGINE: Radial twin / 120 cubic inches
POWER: Rear wheel torque - 135 ft lbs | Rear wheel horse power - 160
DIMENSIONS: Wheel Base: 64 inches; Seat Height: 27 inches; Rake: 30 degrees; Trail: 4 inche; Weight: 460 lbs; Fuel: 4 gallons; Oil: 4.5 quarts
CHASSIS: CM design triple load path 6061 aircraft grade aluminum monocoque backbone, bulkhead, fuselage side plate construction; oil/fuel in frame
SWINGARM: CM design 6061 aircraft grade aluminum
FRONT END: CM design double wishbone machined from 6061 aircraft grade aluminum linked to aerodynamic dual lightweight tubular wing blades
PRIMARY: CM design; machined from 6061 aircraft grade aluminum; belt drive
TRANSMISSION: CM design vertical close ratio 5 speed
SUSPENSION: Race tech; low/high speed compression and rebound adjustable
BRAKES: Brembo high output race derived 4 piston technology; radial pumps; carbon, ceramic, aluminum matrix lightweight discs
WHEELS: CM design carbon fiber; Front: 19” x 3” Rear: 18” x 8”
GAUGES: Precision integrated analogue meter; warning, speed, RPM
IDENTIFICATION: Limited edition; each example is one of 120; fuselage, bulkhead, engine VIN

Motorcycling Magazine has a nice comprehensive review of the bike and can be found here.

The B120 Wraith:







Please click to enlarge the image below to see the tech specs of the Wraith:




About Confederate Motors


Founded in 1991 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Matt Chambers, Confederate Motors designs and handcrafts limited edition motorcycles for the serious motoring aficionado. The Company set out to create machines utilizing a holistic, avant-garde process to embody their philosophy.

The antithesis of mass production, their bespoke creations embody the credo "Art of Rebellion", where preconceptions are purposefully rejected and innovation embraced. In our uncompromising approach to excellence, Confederate has adopted a distinctive, minimalist work model with the goal to be on the cutting-edge of performance and world design.

As the winner of numerous international awards and holder of an AMA world speed record, Confederate Motors is proud to be at the forefront of the American motorcycle industry, with offices located in Birmingham, Alabama.

For additional information on Confederate Motors and our F131 Hellcat, B120 Wraith or P120 Fighter motorcycles, visit http://www.Confederate.com

all CAD renderings, video, Wraith photos, bike specs and company info courtesy of Confederate.

If you didn't see my previous post on Confederate Motorcycles, be sure to check it out here since it includes images of their other amazing bikes.

Confederate Motorcycles: Raw, Rugged, Rebellious & Rare (and rockin' design)

Confederate motorcycles are raw, rebellious, rugged and very rare. With really rocking design and technology produced in limited editions, they are motorcycles for the exclusive set with some serious coin.

Founded in 1991 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Matt Chambers, Confederate Motor Company set out to create machines utilizing a holistic, avant-garde process for celebrating the art of rebellion.




Above: The B120 Wraith broke the world land speed record this past September, 2008 at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Wraith took a speed of 166.459 in the A-PF 2000cc push rod and unfared class, shattering the old record of 141 mph.

Their models include The B120 Wraith (production limited to 250 - 88 available before the book is closed), The F131 Hellion Combat (production limited to 150 - 7 available before the book is closed), The Renovatio and the C120 Renaissance Fighter (only 45 were made, 42 still available as of the time of this post) made exclusively for Neiman Marcus.






Their site has their history, their manifesto and more, but their nine 'iron law mandates' which make up their vision statement (to 'Create the world's ultimate street motoring experience, by far!') really say it all:

1. Initiate a return to honest American industrial and mechanical design
Your pioneering ancestors gambled their lives and the lives of their beloved women and children upon the hope for and faith in individual and familial empowerment. This new-world dream is the source of what you must feel when you mount, spark and cane your Confederate. Your machine must make real the promise of principled individuality.

2. Never compromise passion, intensity, time or money.
If you had all the world’s resources from which to draw and one motorcycle to create, how would you conceive, design and craft her?

3. Create through deep, considered, actual individual emotion.
Because you would not compromise time, you would not have a completion date. Thusly, your most intense fiery passion could grow organically, as you searched your personal depths for the meaning which this body of work must convey, for the feeling and engagement of her owner and herself to be real.

4. Perfect a balance of technology and the primitive.
To achieve the pinnacle of enrichment from your motorcycle, she would have to possess an artful balance of connectivity with actual worldwide diverse human experience while embracing the best and most correct solutions for what the most hopeful prediction that our collective future holds for us all. The self actualized art of rebellion is the tool for the ultimate enrichment of individual self expression.

5. Invest absolute faith.
Your machine represents your expression of personal rebellion against the collective powers which constantly seek to make you and your ideas in their grandiose image, coupled with the maximum capacity within your spirit to dream of machine creation that upon experience transforms her rider to a new place where no power in the known world could prevent acute comfort being exactly as you are. The key that unlocks this dream is faith -- faith in yourself and your vision.

6. Overbuild.
Your art must be impervious to the calendar. Actualized design requires the creation of perpetual timeless heirlooms. An overly robust absolute fatigue resistant machine is a must.

7. Maximize and evolve individual craftsmanship.
Love lives in the doing. Showcasing individual craft work in its most skeletal form declares the openness of your heart and fearlessness with which you engage with life.

8. Relish the challenge.
It must be fun. Your machine’s design and creation is the journey; she will be used throughout time for the taking of journeys and these journeys are the point. Outcome and destination are not the priority.

9. Persist eternally.
You cannot fail. You are a winner. The end is not in doubt. You will never ever stop.

The Machines

The B120 WRAITH:



Wraith details and specs.


The F131 HELLION COMBAT:



Combat details and specs.

THE C120 RENAISSANCE FIGHTER:





THE RENOVATIO:



Renovatio details and specs.

And especially for this year's Neiman Marcus Christmas Fantasy Gifts catalog, the Limited-Edition Fighter Motorcycle, The Renaissance, of which only 45 were made:





Above: Exclusively made for NM, courtesy of Confederate Motor Company®, the first ever Fighter packs 190 mph of performance into its cutting edge carbon fiber, titanium, and aluminum chassis. 64" wheelbase, 27"H seat, integrated braking system, lots of high-tech bells and whistles, and custom NM edition features. Price? $110,000.00 USD. To purchase, call 1.877.9NM.GIFT.





Confederate Motor Company