Movie Review: SHE-DEVILS ON WHEELS
Posted on Feb.08 10 by Big Book of Biker Flicks in the category Movie Mondays

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(Mayflower Pictures, 1968)

Among those who love low-budget and exploitation films, Chicago’s Herschell Gordon Lewis will forever be known as the Godfather of Gore, having created -- with his expansive partner David F. Friedman -- the first real “gore” picture. That was  1963’s Blood Feast, a ground-breaking, stomach-churning splatterfest featuring a deranged Egyptian caterer named Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) who uses the body parts of women to create his specialty, “Egyptian Feasts.”... continue reading

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The Fastest Creature On Earth
Posted on Feb.05 10 by Falcon in the category Motorcycles

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Falcons, the fastest creature on Earth: When stooping, the peregrine flies at speeds varying from 160-440 kmh (99-273 mph)...

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Isle Of Man TT Races Circa 1950s
Posted on Feb.05 10 by Falcon in the category Motorcycles

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Salinger
Posted on Jan.28 10 by Falcon in the category Book Reviews

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JD Salinger has died, aged 91. Here is an excellent obituary from The New York Times... continue reading

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Movie Review: THE GLORY STOMPERS
Posted on Jan.24 10 by Big Book of Biker Flicks in the category Movie Mondays

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(American International Pictures,1967)
Noteworthy chiefly as one of the quick-and-cheap indulgences that helped prepare Dennis Hopper for the cheap but slow-burning Easy Rider (1969), director Anthony Lanza's The Glory Stompers also boasts one of the more colorful titles in the biker-flick canon, as well as a colorful cast that includes former movie Tarzan Jock Mahoney and radio’s famed Mr. Top 40 Countdown, Casey Kasem, as a character named, appropriately enough, Mouth. Story-wise, The Glory Stompers carries a ring of the perpetual struggle of the sacred vs. the profane, with a bracing suggestion that the profane might even be winning... continue reading

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The Falcon Motorcycles Cafe Racer Series - www.caferacers.com
Posted on Jan.22 10 by Falcon in the category Motorcycles

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Falcon Motorcycles will be launching their new series of vintage and modern Café racer motorcycles. Check: www.caferacers.com for regular updates and to find out more!
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The Gorton fisherman tries to break in...
Posted on Jan.20 10 by Falcon in the category Lifestyle

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The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings today for parts of Downtown Los Angeles, an unusual development for normally sunny Southern California that prompted orders for several motorcycle shops to keep employees and interns indoors until the threat passed... continue reading

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Nice Rack...
Posted on Jan.12 10 by Falcon in the category Motorcycles

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7am on a Tuesday morning.
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Fork Off!
Posted on Jan.11 10 by Falcon in the category Motorcycles

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The Falcon Vincent build has started...
Posted on Dec.17 09 by Falcon in the category Motorcycles

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A fabled Vincent Black Shadow, hand-built and produced by Vincent HRD in January 1951, has found it's way to the Falcon Motorcycles workshop in December 2009, ready to become the "Black Falcon"... continue reading

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Los Angeles Magazine
Posted on Nov.22 09 by Falcon in the category Motorcycles

Los Angeles Magazine Cover December 2009: Ian Barry & his Falcon Motorcycle
Ian Barry and Falcon are on the cover of Los Angeles Magazine's December 2009 issue: Made in LA. We have moved back into our shop now after the construction and are moving forward full steam ahead - will be back to posting blogs in no time, stay tuned...! continue reading

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Construction!
Posted on Sep.04 09 by Falcon in the category Lifestyle

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Please excuse the lack in blog postings ... we are undergoing MAJOR construction.. and will be back soon with much better blog postings than the quickies that we were posting for a while, trying to keep it up. Look forward to getting back to it ... Ian & Amaryllis continue reading

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The Henry O. Studly Tool Cabinet
Posted on Aug.26 09 by Falcon in the category Lifestyle

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Designed  as a wall hanging unit,  Henry Studley's tool cabinet is a magnificent thing to behold.  Built within an oak shell,  the chest is inlaid with walnut, ebony, mahogany, rosewood, and beset with mother of pearl inlays, the chest contained over 300 tools that were "generic" to a cabinet maker of the day ... but there were also countless tools that are still to this day unidentifiable and specific to a piano/organ maker, Studley's primary job... continue reading

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Movie Review: BORN LOSERS
Posted on Aug.17 09 by Big Book of Biker Flicks in the category Movie Mondays

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(American International Pictures, 1967)
Film fans and historians tend to see biker movies as not much more than an impersonal mass of machinery and muscle, fueled with twangy power-chord rock `n` roll and garnished with cheesecake glamour. But even such a monolithic genre has its outcroppings of individualistic style and attitude, and they usually occur where least expected --- like the third entry in American International Pictures’ array of cyclists-vs.-the-System pictures. That’s Born Losers, whose acquisition served to free famed cheap-film mogul Roger Corman’s stable of artists for other pursuits by allowing star player Tom Laughlin the additional responsibilities of producing, directing, and writing... continue reading

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Freedom. Are we all just dreaming?
Posted on Aug.04 09 by Mr. Wilcox in the category Lifestyle

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Given three wishes I’m sure we would all want an Aston Martin DB5, a house on Lake Como and World Peace. However, the freedom I would like to discuss today is of a nature much closer to home. It’s an issue that has had men in a bind since the not so swinging sixties... continue reading

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