The Kestrel started as the unit-engine of a 1970 Triumph Bonneville, with damage to it's gearbox. Ian's solution was to cut the transmission off, redesign the engine, then make the frame from scratch to fit the new engine set up. With the exception of a few critical pieces such as the crankcases, a BSA transmission, and 10 inches of the original Triumph headstock, everything else – including the frame, girder front forks, gas and oil tanks, exhausts, handlebars, levers, even the cylinders - was fabricated in-house. Every design element, from handle bars to foot controls is sketched out, hand drawn by Ian, and then machined to detail in-house by Ian , Scott and Troy...
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After a long, seemingly dormant period, Falcon Motorcycles is proud to announce our full-time, 2010 Team...and Falcon motorcycles coming out of our shop on a regular basis as a result... continue reading

(American International Pictures, 1968)

We first met Adam Roarke in a one-sided communion with the big screen, back when the lanky Brooklyner was one of the brighter lights of the biker flicks. Roarke was easily the most persuasive rebellious leading man in the motorcycle movies,  a genre that required an attitude of defiance. Dennis Hopper had the attitude down in spades, Peter Fonda struck all the right poses and Jack Nicholson brought a consummate dramatic skill to any old role at all --- but Roarke seemed the most genuine... continue reading

Curtis, our in-house British engine specialist prepares 270 bearings for the Vincent Black Shadow connecting rod "cranky" pin...
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Kudos to the great Scott Jones.
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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

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

(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

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

7am on a Tuesday morning.
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