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    Barber Motorsports Museum ride: Birmingham, AL

    Just returned from a week-long ride to the Barber. Holy cow! Motorcycle overload! Saw almost 1000 bikes, but a few really stuck with me. If you haven’t visited this place, I highly recommend it.
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    Touring on a R3!

    How cool is this?! From a friend in San Diego who hosts traveling motorcyclists: This cool guy contacted me on Sunday from the Bunk a Biker group, he was coming to San Diego from AZ on Sunday. Asked if he could set up and stay at my house, I said of course. He's retired and currently a...
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    I sold the R3T today 😢

    Well, it’s gone. It’s bittersweet, really. I needed to thin out the herd of bikes (down to 4 from a recent 8) and I just listed them all on Craigslist and the R3T was the first to go. Ah, but the memories... I bought it new from Rocket Motorcycles in San Diego in 2009. The crate showed up...
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    R3 Hack?

    Saw a thread on another site about a possible sidecar rig on a Rocket III. Here are a couple examples.
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    Back the Blue ride: Tampa (July 11, 2020)

    Met up with a few hundred other riders yesterday to support local law enforcement at the annual Back the Blue rally. We met at Tropicana Field and rode to St. Pete PD, Bradenton PD, then to Sarasota PD for lunch. Fun facts: Almost all of the bikes I saw were HDs on one sort or another.p, at...
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    Trivia: The Rocket City

    Without googling, who know where the Rocket City is and why it’s called that? And go!
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    Florida R3 Captains: Herb's Limestone Country Club and Solomon’s Castle

    For the Florida Rocket Riders, here are two places—close together—where we can ride and meet up for a drink and talk R3s: Herb's Limestone Country Club 5300 S. County Road 663 Limestone, FL phone: 941-468-4829 Located between State Road 64 and State Road 70. (Intersection of CR's...
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    Is it just my imagination or...? (60k mile R3T service)

    Seems like I just hit 50k miles a couple months ago, but here I am, at the 60,000 mile mark. I asked fellow Rocketeer PreStaged if he’d help me do the service and he said, “Come on over!” He really does have a great garage. We went by the book, for the most part, and knocked out the oil and...
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    The original Rocket!

    Ladies and gents, I give you the 1965 BSA Rocket.
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    New farkle for my R3T

    This will be a good replacement for my turn signal, horn and high beam switch.
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    Thoughts on R3 riders and the $&@! Detent Spring

    I’m on the North Carolina/Virginia border and just hit 58k miles. That’s all for now....
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    Decisions, decisions... (BRP, Cherohala Skyway, Tail of the Dragon)

    So me and a couple friends are riding the Blue Ridge Parkway, from top to bottom, in June. We’re adding the Tail of the Dragon and the Cherohala Skyway to the end. I’ve done the entire BRP a few years back on another bike so I wanted to try something different. So the best bike to do this ride...
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    New 2500cc R3

    Forget our tiny little 2300cc mini bikes...Triumph is apparently upping the game a couple hundred CCs. After a brief sojourn, Triumph are reportedly about to relaunch the Rocket III. Leaked image from dealer meeting — source unknown (Triumph, maybe?) And true to form, they’re making it...
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    Tampa R3T Riders Head East in Search of BBQ

    I don’t know what it is about seeing a row of Triumph Rocket III motorbikes lined up waiting to roll out, but I sure do like it. And that’s the sight I witnessed this morning in Ruskin/Sun City Center, Florida: Three nice Rocket III Tourings ready to go. It was brisk when I rolled out to the...
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    Formula 1 racer designs motorcycle powered by aircraft engine

    The designer states, “It’s gonna be a MASSIVE engine—about 2300cc—and we’ll call it the “Rocket III.” Ex-Formula One racer designs motorcycle powered by aircraft engine
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    Florida Rocket Riders...wanna meet up?

    With so many Rocket Captains in the Sunshine State, perhaps we should put together a weekend meet-up. Who’d be interested in that? I’m in the Tampa area but could meet up almost anywhere...in JAX, Orlando or the Keys. It’ll be a Saturday or Sunday lunch in Tampa unless someone else has a...
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    Big Florida to California Loop

    I have a little time “between jobs” so I planned a little unplanned ride. A bunch of my motorcycle enthusiast friends—mostly recently retired guys with time on their hands— inspired me to get my R3T out on the road. So I threw a leg over my Big Girl on Tuesday morning and left Tampa Bay for a 5k...
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    Long ride: Tall Touring or Regular Wimdscreen?

    Yeah, I know....first world problem. I’m leaving on Tuesday for a 2-week, 5,500-mile ride from FL to CA and back—with stops in AL, MO, NM and AZ along the way. I haven’t used my tall touring windscreen for quite a while and was just gonna sell it. But the weather forecast calls for...
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    50k mile service

    Recently moved to Florida and my R3T is coming up on 50k Miles. It appears the maintenance schedule is pretty easy this go-round—not as intensive as the 40k. I called the local Stealer (Tampa Triumph) to see what it would cost (basically an oil change and checks on everything else—no valve...
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    Tired of tires yet? Here's more....

    We've beaten the tire thing relentlessly...but here's more. I'm right at 50k miles on my 2009 R3T. I've gone through a couple sets of Metzler 880s, and a couple Dunlop Elite 3s. I have a Michelin Commander II on the rear just because the shop had it in stock and I was replacing an E3 with a...
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