Most builders like to treat a bike as a blank canvas when it arrives in the shop. But when a Confederate arrives?well, that?s like trying to paint over a Rothko artwork. The X132 Hellcat has a brutal style you can see from a mile off.
But this Hellcat turned up at Revival?s Texas workshop with crash damage, due to a brake failure. And rather than just get the bike repaired, the owner wanted a change. He asked Revival for a transformation.

Of the dozens of builds Revival has finished since 2008, this was the most challenging from a design point of view. ?It isn?t exactly an empty canvas that will easily accept changes,? the guys point out.
Fortunately, the technical side wasn?t so bad?the original chassis and most of the electrics could stay.
Revival founder Alan Stulberg started gathering ideas?sketching out drawings, finding images and shapes, and making cardboard bucks and taped line drawings.
After input and feedback from the Revival team, the design was ready?one that properly paid homage to the original, but took it a few steps further. And now the look is even more sculptured and brutal than Confederate’s original, with a 1950s science fiction art vibe.

A hand-formed alloy fuel tank was fashioned to fit the Hellcat?s backbone and align with a new, more upright seating position. Then Revival attached a CNC-machined new subframe?fabricated in a similar way to the original, but with a more organic shape.
The seat height has been raised a little, and the...