Louder Pipes is it possible

Powder Monkey said:
Its all good they arent for everyone, but since when did a rocket run a 180 rear???
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This is the Touring forum, they all have 180 rear tires. Its for two reasons. One is for better handling, and the other is to make room for the hard bags.

Personally I rarely use my rear brake. Only for very slow speed maneuvers to stabilize the bike. The engine is pretty noisy, after all it is a huge motor. And the exhaust note is nothing like a V-Twin. With Jardines, and at full throttle it doesn't sound bad, but under normal riding its not a real pleasant sound.

As to riding position, I wish it were more like the Roadster, but I'm not a big fan of the feet forward thing. I removed the heel shifter as I never had one before and after 40+ years of riding I doubt I'd ever get used to it.

But, the bike certainly isn't for everyone. The fact that you rarely see one on the road speaks to that.
 

Tourers aren't real rockets test ride the real deal . I've had a blast on a m109 and I think the rocket is a far better bike
 


Ahh you mean the slow rocket - ya shoulda said!!!
 
Toronto Rider, you clearly need to try a Classic (or Standard with boards) - pre 2010. They go better than the Touring and have a riding position you'd perhaps like better. Also run the 240 rear. The Roadster has the pegs set quite a bit further back. God only knows what Triumph was thinking. . You can get screen, bags, anything you want to mase it a top touring bike and sounds like it would suit you. I've ridden both M and C 109 and the Rocket leaves them for dead. You just gotta find the right one.
 
Car tire does wonders for the R3T rear braking capability.

Toronto is dead right about the engine noise, but I have to add: why in the world anyone would want louder pipes is beyond me. After riding 40 years, I'm looking for less noise, not more!!!!!!

Louder pipes create more anti-biker sentiment in the non-riding community than just about anything else we bikers do.

[flame suit on ]

CW
 
The only comments I get about my loud pipes is how good they sound. The trick is to ride so as not to piss off your neighbours - or others unnecessarily. I do feel that the mechanical noises from our big triples are not the most musical in the bike world and a little bit of "camouflage" does wonders, especially when you add loud sucking noises to the mix.
 
Dudes, Dyno numbers are really equivalent to Penis size. You see it depends on who measures it, where, how etc etc etc. A truly subjective thing, unless you have a dyno day where you all get together, all dyno on same day by same person on same set-up. Personally, I ride with a bunch of guys from sports to full on tourers and everything in-between.

The fastest of all of us is a guy on a Street Triple R then My Rocket. Now the funny thing is this, doesn't matter which bike Im on and which bike he's on we are always the 2 fastest.

Even funnier is I was riding a girlfriends bike (Ducati 696 Monster) which is a slug but a sweet little machine. Riding through the hills and country roads, I had 3 hyabusas, 2x 1198s's, 3x vrods, a C109R, 2x Speed Triples and a GSXR 1000 and I literally pulled 7 mins on them in 35 kilometres.

Now I don't want to say my pee pee is bigger than yours, but I would like to say, anyone doing the chest beating claiming 147hp on a touring, really ought to not enter into a competition. We all have fast bikes, most of us ride them slow, others easy and some like flipping mad men on a suicide mission.

Simple truth is, Roadsters are faster than tourings and if any Roadster rider wants to stoke your fire let them, don't go wee wee comparing, chances are very high that you will lose!!!!!!!!!!
 
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