Crash hot: Revival Cycles rebuilds a damaged Hellcat

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 Cycles 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...