In the end, for us, it’s all about the bikes.

To break things down to their most elemental, Falcon Motorcycles are unique machines, timeless in style, modern in engineering, custom created around the frames and engines of iconic British motorcycles from the pre- and post-war era.

With rare engines passed on from private collections and far flung salvage yards alike, every Falcon has a bit of a treasure hunt in its bones. But they are, each one, built from scratch from the ground up— nearly every part, portion of frame, and engine component is fabricated in house, and fashioned into a wholly new motorcycle. 

Original parts are sculpted and machined from raw blocks of reclaimed metal. Yes, you can see the Norton backbone or Vincent engine in the heart of the machine -- but the soul is undeniably Falcon.

Falcon motorcycles are totally modern in execution and utility, but harken to an age when a bike was a metal machine, hot and dangerous, meant to be straddled, its mechanicals visible, leaving a tang in the nose and probably a drop on the ground to remind you that there was in fact something moving around inside which needed oil, but would give its best with a little careful attention.

If you buy a Falcon, it is yours from the beginning, from it's conception as a dead frame and blocks or sheets of metal, though the labor of love to its birth as a living motorcycle -- And then for a lifetime.  And from the first time the engine sparks, you'll know your Falcon is alive -- These are not just animate machines, they have a beating heart, an inimitable soul, and nerves of steel.

Falcon are creating a collection of ten motorcycles, each one starting from a different legendary British Engine - Concept 10.

The original engine will be salvaged, restored to it's former glory, and around it a Falcon Motorcycle will be designed and built.

The first two Falcon Motorcycles, the Bullet Falcon and the Kestrel Falcon have been sold and completed. The Black Falcon, designed and built around a 1952 basket-case racing Vincent Black Shadow has been sold, and is in the process of being fabricated. The Black Falcon engine is currently being built by Stephen Pate of Restoration Werks, and Vincent Legend 'Big Sid' Biberman.

If you are able to convince Ian to open up about how he designs his Falcons, please let us know.

Suffice to say, we see him reading Ernst Haekel, the biography of Robert Johnson, and the theories of Golden Mathematics on any given day. Six months ago, Ian was obsessed with the antannae of various squid -- something to do with handlebars, apparently.

And, longingly, we see him up nights, up days, sketching, re-sketching, designing, engineering, machining, sculpting, and one week walking around after hours, constantly toggling a newly made switch until it was comfortably worn, so as it would feel at home with it's Triumph engine, that had been released from its factory half a century ago.

Perhaps the only real description of the process is given to the bike's owner, who receives with his Falcon a book that is a full record of the Falcon team's meticulous build.

A wide-range collection of museum quality collector’s parts and pieces has been amassed from all over the globe, that will eventually find their home on one of the Falcon Motorcycles. The collector item parts most people would put behind glass, they put on the right bike so that they can be displayed on the road — where they were meant to be.

Like what you see? Then let's talk.

Falcon Motorcycles are built on commission. Each Falcon Motorcycle takes hundreds of hours of sketches, rumination, and design work, plus thousands of hours of forging, engineering and metalwork.

We invite serious inquiries, and each of the Concept 10 machines is open to commission until a deposit is received.

The ‘White’: (available)
The White Falcon will have as its heart an extremely rare 1967 Velocette Thruxton motor, one of a handful of motorcycles built by Velocette with a 'squish' combustion chamber with a view to win the inaugural Isle of Man Production TT.   The engine we will start the build with was owned by Arthur Lavington, the last man to race a Velocette in a GP, and it is believed to have powered his Thruxton for three years in the 'Proddy' TT.   ENQUIRE

The ‘Altai’: (available)
The Altai Falcon will be based on the very rare early version of the legendary Ariel Square 4, one of select few British four-cylinder motorcycles built before 1990. The 1936 engine we have is especially desirable in using overhead camshaft valve operation. Finding a suitable donor machine was literally 'falcon's teeth'... that this machine was an original US import makes it nearly unique. The inspiration for the Altai are the two known supercharged 'cammy Squariels' of Ben Bickell and Foster-Pegg, both raced at Brooklands in the days when a supercharged ohc 4 was the very pinnacle of exotica.   ENQUIRE

The ‘Merlin’: (available)
In the world of motorcycle racing, the overhead-camshaft Norton was a fixture on the track for nearly 40 years, deservedly – the Norton engine was incredibly robust, reliable, and very fast. The Merlin will use a 1936 Norton ‘International’ cam cam motor as inspiration for an entirely different take on this most traditional of single-cylinder road racers.   ENQUIRE

The Peregrine: (available)
Before WW2, overhead camshaft engines were rare and usually reserved for racing motorcycles, or at least bikes with racing ambitions. There are many ways of driving an ohc; AJS chose the simplicity of a chain drive, once the Weller chain tensioner had been invented to cure problems of whip over the long run from crankshaft to the top of the cylinder head. Prewar ‘Ajay cammies’ are rare as they were produced in limited numbers, but their evolution over time into formidable racers postwar makes the early versions desirable as harbingers of great things to come, and excellent machines in themselves.   ENQUIRE

The Grey: (available)
The BSA Gold Star is a machine which almost needs no introduction. The ultimate Café Racer, the favorite of the Ton-Up Boys, the machine which dominated (and thus ruined) Clubman racing in England in the 1950s, the ‘Goldie’ deserves its reputation as a beautiful and extremely fast motorcycle, capable of making a good rider that much better, whether road racing, dirt tracking, trials riding, or touring. Falcon is excited to embrace this charismatic engine and make yet another variant, the Grey, on the many iterations of the DBD34GS.   ENQUIRE

The Saker: (available)
When one thinks of ‘four-valve’ cylinder head technology these days, Rudge rarely comes to mind, but this august company delivered advanced engine designs from the mid-1920s, gaining major race victories by the end of that decade (especially the Ulster GP), and building highly esteemed roadsters which could push 100mph with full road equipment. The Saker will continue the Rudge tradition of fast and innovative motorcycling.   ENQUIRE

The Vespertine: (available)
The ultimate. Based around a Brough Superior engine, the Vespertine will respect the hand of George Brough himself, one of the most gifted motorcycle designers ever, by remaining true to his characteristic symphony of lines and bulbous curves. The mighty British v-twin engine will provide a unique opportunity to explore new directions, while remaining true to the past.   ENQUIRE

The Bullet: (sold)
The first Concept 10 machine, the Bullet Falcon was unveiled to much acclaim at the 2008 Legend of the Motorcycle Concours, winning the Best Custom award. Built from the frame and engine of a 1950 triumph Thunderbird (the bike Marlon Brando rode in The Wild One), the Bullet took over 1000 hours to create.    

The Kestrel: (sold)
The second of Falcon’s Concept Ten collection is an evolutionary leap from the Bullet. The sophistication of design and build quality has been elevated to an entirely new level.  Over 2000 hours of machining, hammering, rolling and hand-carving have been labored into the Kestrel, which is Ian Barry’s swan song for a decade of building custom Triumph twins. With the exception of a few critical pieces (crankcases, gearbox, and 10 inches of the original Triumph headstock), everything – including the frame, girder front forks, gas and oil tanks, exhausts, handlebars, levers, even the cylinders – was fabricated in-house from blocks, sheets and rods of steel, brass, aluminum. The Kestrel was unveiled at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering on May 8th, in Carmel CA, where it won the award for best custom motorcycle.

The ‘Black’: (sold)
Currently under construction, its heart is a 1951 Vincent Black Shadow engine with significant California racing history. The Black Falcon promises to be an icon of a different sort, combining the incredible charisma of the Vincent powerplant with the graceful lines of a Falcon. The engine will remain relatively intact, but every other part of the motorcycle has been redesigned. Expected to début at the Quail Motorsports Gathering in August 2010.