Rocket 3 drawing attention!

[CanberraR3]

With myself, Triumph was never within my scope of "awareness". I remember their cars, but not really sure about their motorcycles. Probably had seen them and in the back of my mind thought "not for me" and filed it away...

Until about a year and a half ago, was getting ready to be a ride leader for my local forum when we met at a european motorcycle dealer; while their bread and butter was Ducati and BMW, they had some Triumphs including the most beautiful machine I've ever seen; the Bonneville T100.

Took me about 6 months to get a Bonneville and that bike thrilled me so much that I had to have a 2nd Triumph which turned out to be my present 2011 R3T.

I'm guessing you were born more recently than some of us....

 

[TRath]

Last year I was coming out of a registry office and found the bike surrounded by a group of Hutterites (think Amish).

The 'leader' took off his hat and said, "This your motorcycle son? We have a few questions about it."

I was expecting some luddite nonsense about why I would buy such a thing, but was pleasantly suprised by some very informed questions about horsepower, torque stats, mileage, 1/4 mile times etc. I now have a very different opinion of the black hats.

 

[rayjay]

Yep..they sure get lots of attention..even moreso if your a short old guy

Ray

 

[ponters]

Funny story...this type of thing does happen very often but this is my favourite.

I went for a ride around Tasmania (for this OS that don't know where this is, it is a little blob of dirt in the middle of the ocean just off the coast of Australia. Technically a part of Australia but really it is where we send our aussies with problems...)

anyway, we spent 3 days cruising around the island from coast to coast, 29 blokes on 27 bikes with 2 fellas driving the support van as tail end Charlie. My sergeant rides a stunning looking CVO springer which I do confess looks beautiful and sounds superb but I like to give him grief about it just because its fun.

Anyway, here is this piece of art all in chrome and beautiful blue finish, yet every time we stopped the groups of people would look at all our bikes and congregate around my plain matt black R3R. the questions would always be about my bike, how it goes, how comfy it looks, how big it is etc etc etc.

The old blokes reminisce about the old Nortons and triumphs, the old ladies recount times they met a guy who rode a Triumph, the women comment about the size and power, a lot of blokes want to know how powerful it is, I've had several people tell me it is the best looking Harley they've seen....LOL..

One night in Hobart I had a pretty young lass approach me at a set of lights...asked if she could hop on for a ride...I confessed that if she did I would have expectations of another type of ride later..she said it sounded fair and through her leg over...I told her I was joking and wouldn't let her on without a helmet.....a few blocks later a similar thing happened... 5 mins later one of the ugliest fattest looking moles I've seen went over to my sergeant and asked if she could hop on. LMAO...he shock his head and said, Oh for **** sake...Im never gonna live this one down

Next morning at breakfast our very very attractive waitress was being very friendly, i left the table to suck a lung lolly and when i got back out comes the waitress and in a very provocative way asked who's was the sexy blue harley!!!!!!!!! Well, I just had to eat humble pie.............

Until she turned to serg.. and said OK a deals a deal now wheres my five bucks..well there was 28 lads rolling around in fits of laughter!

 

[ro6ert]

Funny story...this type of thing does happen very often but this is my favourite.

I went for a ride around Tasmania (for this OS that don't know where this is, it is a little blob of dirt in the middle of the ocean just off the coast of Australia. Technically a part of Australia but really it is where we send our aussies with problems...)

anyway, we spent 3 days cruising around the island from coast to coast, 29 blokes on 27 bikes with 2 fellas driving the support van as tail end Charlie. My sergeant rides a stunning looking CVO springer which I do confess looks beautiful and sounds superb but I like to give him grief about it just because its fun.

Anyway, here is this piece of art all in chrome and beautiful blue finish, yet every time we stopped the groups of people would look at all our bikes and congregate around my plain matt black R3R. the questions would always be about my bike, how it goes, how comfy it looks, how big it is etc etc etc.

The old blokes reminisce about the old Nortons and triumphs, the old ladies recount times they met a guy who rode a Triumph, the women comment about the size and power, a lot of blokes want to know how powerful it is, I've had several people tell me it is the best looking Harley they've seen....LOL..

One night in Hobart I had a pretty young lass approach me at a set of lights...asked if she could hop on for a ride...I confessed that if she did I would have expectations of another type of ride later..she said it sounded fair and through her leg over...I told her I was joking and wouldn't let her on without a helmet.....a few blocks later a similar thing happened... 5 mins later one of the ugliest fattest looking moles I've seen went over to my sergeant and asked if she could hop on. LMAO...he shock his head and said, Oh for **** sake...Im never gonna live this one down

Next morning at breakfast our very very attractive waitress was being very friendly, i left the table to suck a lung lolly and when i got back out comes the waitress and in a very provocative way asked who's was the sexy blue harley!!!!!!!!! Well, I just had to eat humble pie.............

Until she turned to serg.. and said OK a deals a deal now wheres my five bucks..well there was 28 lads rolling around in fits of laughter!

Sooooooo good!
Tell serg. that the story is much appreciated in Sweden

 

[TRIIICK]

Most are so use to seeing harleys as the ONLY worthy motorcycle,
the ONE every other motorcycle rider wishes they had,
that it just floors em when they see something BIGGER, BADDER, & BETTER.
Not to mention more dependable, and not strewing parts all down the highway.
When ya tell them Triumph has been around longer that harley, has more
legacy, heritage, and world championships, they just kinda hang their heads..

I own a 2001 Roadking Classic and not once have i had any major problems, going on 89K and it still runs like a top. A lot of people who buy Harleys are buying the image not the bike and you know how important it is to maintain a bike. Another funny thing i have always had Harleys wave at the Rocket i don't think they really know the difference until they stop and get a close look at it..

 

[mexican]

I'm used to that, i ride a cool rocket and my wife rides a look at me spyder, and both are big conversation starters!

This picture is somewhere next to Maggie valley on our way back to Oklahoma, i think it came out pretty good

 

[rayjay]

I'm used to that, i ride a cool rocket and my wife rides a look at me spyder, and both are big conversation starters!

This picture is somewhere next to Maggie valley on our way back to Oklahoma, i think it came out pretty good

Hey Lupe
Haven't got my glass's on..is that you standing by the rocket or is it a helmet resting
on a mirror

RJ

 

[mexican]

Hey Lupe
Haven't got my glass's on..is that you standing by the rocket or is it a helmet resting
on a mirror

RJ

It is me hiding inside the helmet

 

[Bob R]

I now have a very different opinion of the black hats.

When I lived in northern Montana I went to a colony with a friend to buy a pig. It took several hours and a lot of Hutterwine before we got out of there, but it was a great time.

bob