When Ian Barry was 6 his mom caught him taking apart their rotary phone. She wasn’t thrilled. In high school he kept himself busy customizing everything he came in contact with—including skateramps, guitar amps, and computers. The Powers that Be manipulated this love of soldering motherboards, tricking Ian into working a couple of soulcrushing years in the IT field. During this time in purgatory, he still spent every weekend rebuilding his beloved Triumph and Norton in his back yard. After an epiphany, he set fire to his paperwork and alarm clock (literally) and moved to Los Angeles in 2000. There he lived in a tent, and began rebuilding British bikes full time. He worked his way up from there, obsessive about one thing for ten years: Building motorcycles. He met his partner Amaryllis in 2007, and together they launched Falcon Motorcycles.

Amaryllis Knight's Grandfather was a WWII squadron leader in the Royal Air Force who loved old cars. Her dad quickly realized the obsession skipped a generation when at the age of 6 she fell in love with a Greeves motorcycle. Her father made her swear that she would not own a bike till she was 30. Upon turning 30 she met Ian, and finally at an age to fulfill the oath to her father, she tracked down a 1942 Norton from the Indian military, suspended her career birthing babies as a doula and apprentice midwife and birthed Falcon motorcycles with Ian.