Showing posts with label test ride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label test ride. Show all posts

Saturday, June 21, 2008

... And the Rocket's (III) Red Glare ...

This is a late post, in fact it is from 2008 Spring Daytona Bike Week. A riding buddy of mine sent me these pictures a while back and I just looked at them. A couple of us were able to test ride on the Triumph ROCKET III. The Rocket III, with its fuel injected, three cylinder, twelve-valve 2,294cc powerplant giving 147ft lbs of torque at 2,500rpm, is officially the world’s largest capacity production motorcycle. It looks and feels like a real beast, and it fells pretty wide. But it is smooth and refined with some real get up & go in its stock form. Triumph says that no production bike can beat it in 0-60, even the Hayabusa, Honda VTX or Harley V-Rod!!