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Nope, just can't quite bend that far forward with my knees bent that sharply. Might be my belly, might be age, might be both

Here's Mr. Lee's quote on the Bullet Falcon:

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Ian Barry, 35, has put 1,000-plus hours into the Bullet. The starting price for a Falcon: $45,000, due to all the hand-craftsmanship. But the steep price only half-explains Barry's celebrity clientele. Falcon's Gen X star appeal is also a generational aesthetic that finds authenticity and cool in the rare, the old, the unusual.

"[Barry's] not into the sort of custom, current motorcycle culture as we know it," said Lee, who grew up riding dirt bikes in Orange County in the '70s before becoming a professional skateboarder and actor in such films as Kevin Smith's "Mallrats" and "Chasing Amy." His first street bike was a 1966 Honda 305 Dream, which he customized, then traded to a friend for a painting. He's also owned some 1960s BSAs.

It wasn't until his karmic-hick show took off that Lee started collecting bikes in earnest. The other motorcycles in his collection include the customized Honda cafe racer he rode to the Falcon shop, and a Derringer moped.

But his new Bullet Falcon is "the most important of what I have," he says, "and the one that I'll probably ride the least. Not because I'm afraid to scratch it but because it's not very comfortable. This is the bike I'll take out on Sundays and cruise around town and probably get stopped every 20 yards [by people asking], 'What is that?'

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