Mat Chambers remembers the exact moment his vision for Confederate Motors took shape. “It was the graduated from law school,” he Me and my best buddy were driving down Highway 61 from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, around midnight. This was in the mid-’70s, and a bunch of Sons of Silence guys blew by us on skinny, stripped-down Shovelhead choppers. They looked so cool, and the sound of those old Shovels, right on the edge of blowing up … I never got that image out of my mind,”
Chambers left law practice in 1991 to found Confederate, and has dedicated the past 18 years to capturing that outlaw style and spirit with his utterly unique American hot-rod motorcycles. When the company’s radical B120 Wraith street-fighter debuted on our April ’05 cover, the New Orleans-based manufacturer seemed poised for its big break. But just a few months later, Hurricane Katrina changed everything. Read the rest of this entry »
Wheeled Rebellion B120 Wraith.
April 5th, 2010
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2009 BMW G450x
August 25th, 2009
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What better way for BMW – an established marque that is rapidly reshaping itself – to leave its longtime persona of gentlemanly conservatism in the dust than to build a serious dirt bike? The all new G450X is the latest in a continuing line of completely fresh, clean-sheet machines to emerge from the Munich-based manufacturer in a radical detour that reinforces the notion (to borrow a very tired cliché): this isn’t your father’s BMW.
For anyone paying attention, BMW Motorrad is aggressively redefining itself. In place of flashy marketing campaigns shallowly trumpeting a new direction, the German brand is letting its two-wheel product speak for itself, unveiling one new machine after another. Their latest, the G450X, represents a bold move into semi-uncharted territory. Read the rest of this entry »

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