Triumph X75 Hurricane
USA BSA Vice-President Don Brown felt that the BSA/Triumph triples needed a different look to succeed in the USA, and he engaged designer Craig Vetter to give the BSA A75 a customised face-lift, with a brief to make it sleeker and more balanced. Brown revealed the Vetter project to Peter Thornton (President of BSA/Triumph North America). In October 1969, and Vetter was called to display his customised A75. Vetter's bike was then sent to the UK, but the bike had a lukewarm reception from chief designer Bert Hopwood; but after a positive public reaction to the design, the UK managers changed their minds and the Vetter BSA Rocket3 became the Triumph X75 Hurricane.
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“Firmness yclept in heroes, kings and seamen,
That is, when they succeed; but greatly blamed
As obstinacy, both in men and women,
Whene’er their triumph pales, or star is tamed —
And ‘twill perplex the casuist in morality
To fix the due bounds of this dangerous quality.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
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