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Cycle News Issue 25 June 26

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CURTISS ZEUS E-CRUISER FULL TEST P112 For all good things must, indeed, come to an end, and after practicing the Art of Rebellion for a quarter of a century in alto- gether manufacturing 1300 outrageously unconventional, totally uncompromising V-twin maxi-cruisers since it was founded in Louisiana in 1992 by former trial lawyer Matt Chambers, Confederate has built its last such bike, thus marking an end to 25 years of iconoclastic innovation. For this maker of liter- ally unique V-twin hardware has changed its name, in formally abandoning the use of internal combustion engines in its products. The company, which today, is based in Birmingham, Alabama, after being expelled from its former New Orleans home by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and is still headed by Matt Chambers as President/CEO, has been renamed Curtiss Curtiss's youthful Design Director Jordan Cornille wanted to make the batteries a focal point of the design.

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