Registration: EOH546K
Frame: TRX75XH02000
Odometer: 9,162
MOT: Exempt
- 744cc 4-stroke triple
- 5-speed gearbox
- Complete running bike
- Originally an American bike
- Imported back to UK in 2025
- Matching numbers
- Registered Historic
- HPi clear
- Full UK V5
The Triumph X-75 Hurricane was a 'factory special' motorcycle designed by fairing specialist Craig Vetter. The X-75 had swooping glassfibre bodywork, a three US-gallon petrol tank, lowered gearing and a distinctive triple exhaust on the right-hand side. The motorcycle is credited with creating a new class of motorcycle, the cruiser. Vetter created the Triumph Hurricane in the summer of 1969, and in October 1969 he unveiled the prototype with ‘BSA’ on the tank as the new ‘Rocket Three’. American officials were impressed, and Vetter's bike was then sent to the UK, but the bike arrived in England just as the BSA marque was about to be ended. At BSA-Triumph's design facility at Umberslade Hall, the design was seen as too "trendy" by chief designer Bert Hopwood; but after very positive public reaction to the design when it appeared on the front of US magazine Cycle World in September 1970, the UK managers changed their minds. They realised they had a large stock of obsolete BSA Rocket-3 parts that could now be turned into a premium-priced motorcycle.
Engineer Steve Mettam was given the job of supervising production for the 1972/3 season; and the Vetter BSA Rocket 3 became the Triumph X75 Hurricane. 1,183 engines were put aside for X75 production. However, BSA was facing bankruptcy and the design went into a limited production run of 1200 as the Triumph X-75 Hurricane in 1972. Production stopped in 1973 after the X-75 was unable to meet new American noise standards.
This bike was originally built and exported to America in April 1972 and appears to have lived in Florida. It runs and rides and has had the carbs refurbished and ultrasonically cleaned, as well as fresh oil and new plugs. The bike is in very original condition with the paintwork appearing to be the original. With only 1,200 bikes having been produced for the worldwide market, these don’t come around that often so we expect this will cause a lot of interest.
