Falcon Motorcycles have released the first glimpse of their new creation, the Black Falcon. Based on a Vincent Black Shadow salt-lake racer V-Twin from 1952, the meticulously hand-crafted motorcycle is debuting at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering today (Saturday) so expect the motorcycle blogosphere to light up like a Christmas Tree decorated with yellow cake uranium and fusing hydrogen.
$595,000 USD will buy you a modest suburban house in most parts of America. Well, it could buy you a modest suburban house. Or it could buy you your own private freaking jet. I don’t think it’s a particularly difficult choice, I mean the plane has seats that fold into beds and a kitchenette but the modest suburban house can’t fly. 1-0 to the private jet.
If the Ford Mustang I Prototype had seen the green light for production things would have turned out very differently. In October ’62, when the first Mustang I debuted at the United States Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, New York, the Formula One driver Dan Gurney lapped the circuit using the prototype. His lap times were only slightly off the pace of the Formula 1 race cars.
Imagine a 1⅛-mile NASCAR track made entirely from wooden planks. It sounds insane but it’s how motor racing got started in the US. This…
Leather jackets and heat go together like politics and relatives. They really aren’t the best bedfellows. Icon is seeking to amend this problem by…
The Harley-Davidson XLR-TT roared onto the scene in 1958 and remained in low-volume production until 1969, depending on which experts you listen to,…
In the days before optional ABS and wuss-o-rama-heated-grips they had optional sidecar mounted machine guns. The old days kick ass. I can’t help but…
John Ryland is a remarkably talented bike builder, he discovered bikes later in life than most and is more than making up for lost…
Boots are an essential piece of gear for any motorcyclist, they need to be strong enough to handle an inglorious dismount at 80mph but…
We’ve hunted around for the story behind this image to no avail. She is clearly drifting a heavy bike across dirt with one hand…
So far as vintage crashes go this one’s a doozy (to use period appropriate phraseology). Daytona International Speedway in early 1960 saw the single…
Building a motor racing stadium out of a highly flammable material, strapping on a leather helmet, climbing into a vehicle with no discernible braking…
