I want a Rocket 3 that doesn't exist!
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ROCKETHEAD
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There ya go. Triumph UC.
1olbull
Riding Motor Since 1950
With or without light bulb?
Me thinks you have done quite well for a pot smokin' Hippy Liberal!
Toddyboy
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I absolutely want a road glide fairing on my roadster I'm definitely following this thread
IMFASTTOO
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Just add the bags and fairing to the standard ROCKET whats the big deal ?
cr0ft
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Rocket Roadster, Corbin bags and fairing, luggage rack, big Kuryakyn or Saddlemen bag. Good looking, has all the luggage capacity you need and goes like stink. And doesn't have an eyesore of a top box (not a fan in general).
I hated the tank mounted gauges on my Touring at first but now they're a non-issue. I just glance down on occasion to see how much too fast I'm going or what the time is or my fuel status to empty. Moving your eyes down to the bars or a little lower to the tank isn't that different, at the end of the day. It's not like you spend any time looking at the gauges when you ride. But of course, just one man's opinion. And as for revs, I don't really care. It's going to be somewhere between 1000 and 6000 and that's all the precision I need aside from "butt-feel". :-D
Frankly, I think if you're that dead set against the tank-mounted gauges then you should start with a Roadster. It's much easier to bolt on the stuff you need on that than start slashing at the wiring harness on the Touring. Anything can be done if you're determined, but it would probably be non-trivial.
Power-wise it's almost a wash. The Touring with the freely available derestricting tune gets you to about 140 horses, so almost on par with the Roadster. The difference comes from the slightly more restricted exhaust. Replace the exhaust and the air filter and you can get the same power out of a Touring as you can a Roadster, and by that I mean you can get it to almost 300 hp naturally aspirated or more than that with forced induction of some kind.
As for how Touring bags look on a Classic:
R3 touring bags on a classic/roadster
I hated the tank mounted gauges on my Touring at first but now they're a non-issue. I just glance down on occasion to see how much too fast I'm going or what the time is or my fuel status to empty. Moving your eyes down to the bars or a little lower to the tank isn't that different, at the end of the day. It's not like you spend any time looking at the gauges when you ride. But of course, just one man's opinion. And as for revs, I don't really care. It's going to be somewhere between 1000 and 6000 and that's all the precision I need aside from "butt-feel". :-D
Frankly, I think if you're that dead set against the tank-mounted gauges then you should start with a Roadster. It's much easier to bolt on the stuff you need on that than start slashing at the wiring harness on the Touring. Anything can be done if you're determined, but it would probably be non-trivial.
Power-wise it's almost a wash. The Touring with the freely available derestricting tune gets you to about 140 horses, so almost on par with the Roadster. The difference comes from the slightly more restricted exhaust. Replace the exhaust and the air filter and you can get the same power out of a Touring as you can a Roadster, and by that I mean you can get it to almost 300 hp naturally aspirated or more than that with forced induction of some kind.
As for how Touring bags look on a Classic:
R3 touring bags on a classic/roadster
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camccardell
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thanks for the link to my build thread! 
Still looking for the step by step write up by someone as to adding the road glide fairing.
I want to start accumulating parts so I have everything read for next winters project!
Still looking for the step by step write up by someone as to adding the road glide fairing.
I want to start accumulating parts so I have everything read for next winters project!
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Claviger
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My perfect touring bike would be a 2012 Roadster with:
Corbin Fairing
Beetle Bags
Mustang Trunk
Russel Day Long with heater
Bluetooth enabled stellite radio receiver +Bluetooth helmet audio
Heated grips
Engine guard bars + highway pegs
McCruise cruise control
Decosse wireless ignition
Wilbers shocks/traxx forks
Utopia backrest
Rox speed 3" bar risers, at a 45 to get about 2 up and 2 back from stock position
CES header + crossover into dual TORs cans
PC-V, POD-300,Autotune - with this you can lean her out for huge mileage on the fly when you want to get 250+ miles out of a tank, and instantly set it back to power to play when desired.
Bridgestone Excedra Max rear and ME880 front.
Garmin hardwired to the bike mounted using a RAM mount where the ignition used to be.
Small footprint CB radio mounted in the trunk
Hidden Laser Jammer front/rear
EBC HH front/rear
and of course.... The 265 Carpenter kit.
All the modern comforts and conveniences of motorcycling, power, mileage, entertainment, handling, and storage. A hard package to beat, not cheap, but not much could Trump it as a package.
Corbin Fairing
Beetle Bags
Mustang Trunk
Russel Day Long with heater
Bluetooth enabled stellite radio receiver +Bluetooth helmet audio
Heated grips
Engine guard bars + highway pegs
McCruise cruise control
Decosse wireless ignition
Wilbers shocks/traxx forks
Utopia backrest
Rox speed 3" bar risers, at a 45 to get about 2 up and 2 back from stock position
CES header + crossover into dual TORs cans
PC-V, POD-300,Autotune - with this you can lean her out for huge mileage on the fly when you want to get 250+ miles out of a tank, and instantly set it back to power to play when desired.
Bridgestone Excedra Max rear and ME880 front.
Garmin hardwired to the bike mounted using a RAM mount where the ignition used to be.
Small footprint CB radio mounted in the trunk
Hidden Laser Jammer front/rear
EBC HH front/rear
and of course.... The 265 Carpenter kit.
All the modern comforts and conveniences of motorcycling, power, mileage, entertainment, handling, and storage. A hard package to beat, not cheap, but not much could Trump it as a package.
cr0ft
Living Legend
hanks for the link to my build thread!
Haha, yeah, dunno how I managed to just blindly do that, but hey - it's a great thread!
I looked at the original post in this thread and thought it was April of this year and then I remembered "some guy" had done a super job putting Touring bags on a classic... so I linked it, without spending all that much time looking at the name of "the guy". Oh well.
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