BSA Fury

The BSA Fury was a prototype 349 cc double overhead cam twin motorcycle made in 1970 and branded for 1971, the factory's last attempt to compete with Japanese imports. Edward Turner designed it, Bert Hopwood and Doug Hele substantially redesigned it, and Rob North, who also built frames for the racing BSA triples, designed its frame. It was essentially the same machine as the Triumph Bandit. A street scrambler E35SS and a road version E35R were developed, with the Fury delivering about 34 bhp and 110 mph, and BSA put heavy publicity behind it. It never entered production because the BSA Group collapsed in 1972, and only eight prototypes survive, two of them in museums.