Redpb
10-20-2008, 02:22 PM
A $110,000 Motorcycle as Ugly as It Is Expensive
http://blog.wired.com/cars/images/2008/10/17/confederate_renaissance01.jpg
We know Confederate Motor Company can design sweet motorcycles because its first bike, the Wraith, is all kinds of awesome. But we've gotta wonder what the company's designer was smoking when he penned the new Renaissance Fighter and whether he'll share it with the people Neiman Marcus thinks will drop $110,000 to buy one.
The Renaissance takes the board-track racer aesthetic of the too-cool-for-words B91 Wraith and projects it well into the next century. The result is a bike that, although technically impressive, is as ugly as it is overpriced. That isn't keeping Neiman Marcus from offering the Renaissance in its Christmas Big Book, that annual repository of all things garish, gaudy and gauche.
What's sad is the Renaissance offers some amazing specs, including a 1,966 cc engine in an aluminum and titanium frame, a close-ratio 5-speed billet aluminum transmission and a four-piston front brake clamping down on a ceramic rotor. And, of course it's got that funky, but very effective, girder fork that Confederate is known for, and incorporating the LED headlights into the fork legs was a nice touch. The whole package weighs a very reasonable 430 pounds.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/10/confederate-mot.html
http://blog.wired.com/cars/images/2008/10/17/confederate_renaissance01.jpg
We know Confederate Motor Company can design sweet motorcycles because its first bike, the Wraith, is all kinds of awesome. But we've gotta wonder what the company's designer was smoking when he penned the new Renaissance Fighter and whether he'll share it with the people Neiman Marcus thinks will drop $110,000 to buy one.
The Renaissance takes the board-track racer aesthetic of the too-cool-for-words B91 Wraith and projects it well into the next century. The result is a bike that, although technically impressive, is as ugly as it is overpriced. That isn't keeping Neiman Marcus from offering the Renaissance in its Christmas Big Book, that annual repository of all things garish, gaudy and gauche.
What's sad is the Renaissance offers some amazing specs, including a 1,966 cc engine in an aluminum and titanium frame, a close-ratio 5-speed billet aluminum transmission and a four-piston front brake clamping down on a ceramic rotor. And, of course it's got that funky, but very effective, girder fork that Confederate is known for, and incorporating the LED headlights into the fork legs was a nice touch. The whole package weighs a very reasonable 430 pounds.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/10/confederate-mot.html