Classic Bike Guide

Previous factory customs

bikes with different styling for the American market way back in the 1950s as ‘export’ models, but it wasn’t until BSA-Triumph produced the X-75 Hurricane 750 triple, the Craig Vetter-designed street special, that the factory custom could be said to have properly arrived. A stunning looker, the Hurricane has passed into legend. Unlike a lot of later factory customs, it is one of the few bikes of its kind that people have turned into replicas by building them around

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