Cobba
Supercharged
Ok. Firstly, forgive me for my ignorance.
I've had a soft spot for the R3's since my first test ride a few years back but have only just in the past few weeks actually bought one.
Don't know if others ever thought this, but when Triumph first released the Rocket 3 I said "Who in their right right mind would want to ride a 2.3L motorbike. That's rediculous". Obviously I've seen the light.
To be honest, I wasn't planning on buying one just yet but everything just fell into place at the right time for me. I sold my Sprint RS. My wife was wanting to downsize from her Thunderbird Sport and it sold within 3 days of the ad going online and this bike came up around the same time, so I jumped on it.
Sad part of all that is that now I have a huge learning curb to undertake on a new type of bike in a reletively short period, hense the stupid questions.
It's a bit of a mystery to me as to what is and isn't really done to the bike but I'll tell you what I do know.
2007 Rocket standard in Cardinal Red.
Has got Jardine 3:1:2 pipes and Triple K&N filters.
Still has the secondaries fitted and for the moment I'm not in a rush to remove them either.
Will take me a little while to master the beast as it is, so not in a rush to prematurely remove the bridle if you know what I mean.
As I bought this bike from a non Triumph dealer I haven't been able to glean much information as to what else has been done in relation to the ECU.
They couldn't give me the contact details of the previuos owner so for all I know it's still running the stock program.
Problems I have noticed with the bike are a lot of backfiring on de-cel, won't idle by itself on cold start and on occasions is hard to start when hot.
Am going to pull the exhaust system apart and make sure there are no air leaks, but I think it's in the ECU myself.
Have got a VAG COM cable on order and hopefully here by the end of next week.
Have got a local fella who has a dyno but when I spoke with him he seemed a bit vague on these things so not in a rush to let him practice his learning of them at my $$ per hour expense just to find out he didn't get it right.
Can anyone tell me the best TuneECU to install from the info I've supplied??????????
I've had a soft spot for the R3's since my first test ride a few years back but have only just in the past few weeks actually bought one.
Don't know if others ever thought this, but when Triumph first released the Rocket 3 I said "Who in their right right mind would want to ride a 2.3L motorbike. That's rediculous". Obviously I've seen the light.
To be honest, I wasn't planning on buying one just yet but everything just fell into place at the right time for me. I sold my Sprint RS. My wife was wanting to downsize from her Thunderbird Sport and it sold within 3 days of the ad going online and this bike came up around the same time, so I jumped on it.
Sad part of all that is that now I have a huge learning curb to undertake on a new type of bike in a reletively short period, hense the stupid questions.
It's a bit of a mystery to me as to what is and isn't really done to the bike but I'll tell you what I do know.
2007 Rocket standard in Cardinal Red.
Has got Jardine 3:1:2 pipes and Triple K&N filters.
Still has the secondaries fitted and for the moment I'm not in a rush to remove them either.
Will take me a little while to master the beast as it is, so not in a rush to prematurely remove the bridle if you know what I mean.
As I bought this bike from a non Triumph dealer I haven't been able to glean much information as to what else has been done in relation to the ECU.
They couldn't give me the contact details of the previuos owner so for all I know it's still running the stock program.
Problems I have noticed with the bike are a lot of backfiring on de-cel, won't idle by itself on cold start and on occasions is hard to start when hot.
Am going to pull the exhaust system apart and make sure there are no air leaks, but I think it's in the ECU myself.
Have got a VAG COM cable on order and hopefully here by the end of next week.
Have got a local fella who has a dyno but when I spoke with him he seemed a bit vague on these things so not in a rush to let him practice his learning of them at my $$ per hour expense just to find out he didn't get it right.
Can anyone tell me the best TuneECU to install from the info I've supplied??????????
go to the trading tunes forum amd have a look at all the different tunes youi can try.
