Amaryllis Knight, (1976) co-owns and operates Falcon Motorcycles LLC, based in Los Angeles, California, with her fiancee, motorcycle and industrial designer Ian Barry.[1] She appeared on the ITV television series, Adrenaline Junkie and The Mongol Rally.[2]
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Amaryllis and her fiancé design and fabricate fast, high end, bespoke motorcycles around the engines of rare pre and post war motorcycles. Every machine is unique, and made from scratch, with exception to the engine and the tires. A collection of ten Falcons is planned, with three completed so far, the fourth underway.[3]In May 2008, Legend Of The Motorcycle named the first in the Falcon collection, the "Bullet Falcon", recipient of the award for best thoroughbred motorcycle at the Legend Of The Motorcycle International concours.[4] Since then the following two in the collection have gone on to win the award for best custom at the 2010[5] and 2011 Quail Motorsports events at Pebble Beach[6]
Amaryllis appeared with Jack Osbourne,[7] son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, in the Mongol Rally, a television series for ITV, in which they drove over 10,000 miles (16,000 km) in a car rally[2] from London to the capital of Mongolia, Ulan Bator.
Amaryllis has promoted several humanitarian causes. On the behalf of The Next Right Thing", she escorted refugee children in need of medical attention, from West African refugee camps into the United States to receive medical attention.[8]
In 2006, she was one of a small group of Los Angeles women who started "The Name Campaign" with Creative Visions,[9] a non-profit organization that brought about attention to the crisis of the Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda. The group sought to bring about awareness to the conflict in Northern Uganda through collecting the names of thousands of children abducted by Warlord Joseph Kony and imprinting each one on a silver necklace with a green band, and was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show.[10]
Knight also works as a doula and apprentice midwife.[11]
Amaryllis is the daughter of Andrew Knight, former editor of The Economist Magazine, and current director of News Corporation, and Sabiha Rumani Malik.[12] The marriage lasted 17 years from 1975 to 1991 and the couple had another daughter, Afsaneh Knight, a novelist and author of Slaughterhouse Heart. Amaryllis's mother subsequently married in 1991 the architect Norman Foster, Lord Foster of Thames Bank. Knight grew up in Hampstead, London.[13] Her elder sister is the British author and journalist, India Knight. Amaryllis lives with her fiancé in Los Angeles, California.
