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===Post-WW2=== After the war, and not of a scale to continue competitive motorcycle manufacture, the company concentrated on [[racing bicycle]]s. In the 1930s, they had launched a range of sporting bikes under the "Falcon" brand, and it was under this marque that the company relaunched itself. Managed from the 1950s under British bicycle racer [[Ernie Clements]], in the 1970s the company signed a global licensing agreement with [[Belgium|Belgian]]-racer [[Eddy Merckx]] brand, who at the time was the leading global [[road bicycle racing|road cycling]] racer. This allowed the company to greatly expand, and export large numbers of Merckx bikes to the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Falcon.htm|title=Falcon Cycles|publisher=ClassicRendezvous.com|access-date=2012-08-04}}</ref>
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