Friday, May 2, 2008

No Pizza, but check out Falcon Motorcycles!

Ever get that sinking feeling when you realize you forgot to do something like, oh, format the pictures for a pizza review?

There aren't a whole lot of custom builders that get my interest. For the most part, everyone is building what everyone else is building. I like Exile, they've done some cool stuff. I like that Confederate does something different, though I wouldn't be caught on one. And now, there's Falcon Motorcycles (beware awful site navigation scheme). They've built some tasty bikes. My favorite is the "Bullet Falcon." It appears their design method is "take apart old Triumphs, keep the good bits, and slap 'em in a new frame."* So, I guess, they aren't really doing something new so much as just doing it well.


*Update - I didn't mean to imply that these guys are only putting Triumph parts in a new frame. If that was the case, it would be obvious, and I wouldn't have been intrigued. It's plain to see there's a lot of work put into each bike. Perhaps I should have said they take old Triumphs apart, keep the good bits, and reconfigure them into something wonderful.

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