Marlon Brando: The Man Who Made Motorcycles a Lifestyle Icon Honored in British Customs' Legends Series
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 29, 2016 -- The motorcycle community has changed. As the decades passed, the heritage of motorcycling was packed away and has been largely forgotten with time. Now, the history of motorcycling is all but forgotten by the vast majority of the motorcycle community. The only place where the legends of motorcycling exist are in long forgotten archives that were never digitized, and knowledge of both these archives and the figures documented within them fade by the day.
Until now.
British Customs, a lifestyle brand and designer of aftermarket motorcycle parts, is revitalizing the lost heritage of motorcycling by connecting with the remaining legends that built the motorcycle culture as we now know it and sharing their stories with the riders of today. British Customs is establishing on their blog an authoritative database composed of numerous interviews, profiles, histories, and more on the racers, races, machines, designers, tuners, events, personalities, and more that collectively built the heritage of motorcycling.
British Customs is calling this the Legends Series.
To help motorcyclists get their own piece of history, British Customs has released multiple custom motorcycles built in collaboration with many of these living legends as well as parts developed with their input. These include the Triumphant built with Eddie Mulder, the Sonny Nutter Tribute built with Sonny Nutter, the British Customs X Mule Motorcycles Tracker Classic, the Spirit of Gyronaut with the heirs of the original Gyronaut X-1 team, Drage Pipes, Slash Cut TT Exhaust, Pro Builder Series Mule Motorcycles parts, the Stainless Steel Collection, and many more.
This week, British Customs introduced one of the men who created the motorcycle lifestyle to their archives: Marlon Brando.
Brando was considered one of the greatest actors of all time, but his contributions to the motorcycle community are often unrecognized. In The Wild One, Brando rode his own Triumph Thunderbird, and through the character he portrayed helped craft the image that continues to define the motorcycle lifestyle: one that is marked by a love of freedom, and uses motorcycles as a form of self-expression.
The motorcycles Brando rode, like those ridden by all racers, stuntmen, enthusiasts, and the common motorcyclist alike, were all street bikes that had been stripped down and modified for whatever purpose they were wanted. In step with this mentality, British Customs has published a series of style guides on how to take any Triumph Modern Classic including the iconic Bonneville, Thruxton, Scrambler and others and easily convert it into a tracker, dirt bike, cafe racer, desert sled, bobber, resto-mod, and more.
Every week, British Customs will add at least two pieces to continue growing their archive as they are completed or documents are uploaded on the racers, events, designers, machines, personalities, and more that created motorcycling as we now know and love it.
Anyone interested in using or viewing the archival images and documents British Customs is digitizing is encouraged to contact them.
About British Customs:
British Customs is a Southern California-based lifestyle brand and designer of aftermarket motorcycle parts. They are known for making the highest quality factory-spec bolt-on parts that only require common tools and minimal technical knowledge to install. With any of their parts upgrades, the average rider can completely customize his or her motorcycle in a weekend.
David Bumpus, Triton Communications, +1 3104368012, [email protected]
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