Just a year later, Curtiss had the wild brainstorm to try and mount the V8 on a motorcycle frame, and set his team to the task of building one that could support its weight and power. The finished ...

This motorcycle was air-cooled, made almost 40 horsepower, and ran on a direct drive, given that the conventional chain-and-belt transmission could not handle all that V8 power. When Curtiss ...

When Confederate Motorcycles changed its name to Curtiss — in honor of Glen Curtiss, the inventor of the V-twin engine — the company pledged to make only electric motorcycles. Curtiss did ...