Falcon Motorcycles Kestrel: Gone in 50 seconds

The Kestrel is the engine from a 1970 Triumph Bonneville, which Falcon cut in half and completely re-engineered. 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 and aluminum. See more at: www.falconmotorcycles.com

Thanks to Black Math Horseman for the music and our friend Matt B. Taylor & Amaryllis Knight for making this.

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.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• falcon motorcycles
• kestrel
• ian barry
• black math horseman

[LanceCampeau]

Awesome bike... What camera was used to film this clip??

[FalconMotorcycles]

@LanceCampeau We used a canon 7D SLR ....

[mamboarmy]

If Steve Mqueen was still Alive, he would own a Falcon.

This bike is an absolute work of art, as is the Bullet.

I cant wait to see the other planed bikes come to life.

Brilliant video,music sounds very queens of the stone age,

Any ideas as to what it actually is?

[FalconMotorcycles]

@mamboarmy The music is Black Math Horseman

[florakis]

best part of the video...the oil drop....that was more than cool...

[FalconMotorcycles]

@florakis Thank you, we filmed this ourselves with a friend in the desert. We were excited to capture a drop of oil coming out of the oil breather on film, it's an important part of how the engine functions and breathes, glad you noticed it!

[Nerced]

@mamboarmy Black Math Horseman-Torment of the Metals  but i can't find the second one

[kneeslider47]

@FalconMotorcycles

And you've suceeded beyond belief! All your bikes are incredible - I love them all! Sadly I'd only be able to afford one if I did a bank job! That's a thought - where did I leave my shotgun?

(Note to the Police - no banks were robbed in the writing of this reply...............yet)

[FalconMotorcycles]

@kneeslider47 Thank you. Yes, when hot, it releases about a drop or two per hour... we were happy to have caught it on film ads to the experience that this is a living, breathing machine...

[DAVIE1488]

well done...

[smarthable]

You have to tell me im building a bike and i want my exhaust to be that golden color. what metal did you use and how is it colord? is it just the heat that did it?

[smarthable]

You have to tell me im building a bike and i want my exhaust to be that golden color. what metal did you use and how is it colord?

[fmimages]

I can't tell you how many times I've watched this video in the last year. I've got it bookmarked!

[wordreet]

Hard core is a desperately overused term these days, so it won't be applied here. But this hand made motorcycle is the coolest thing I've seen in several whiles. B¬)

[wordreet]

@reaperphilia Amen to that bro.

[remo1366]

@FalconMotorcycles your camera man should be given an award,stellar shooting/editing.