Rocket 3 drawing attention!

[Jon Hill]

Friday 13th

I was at Port Dover on the 13th and saw a rocket trike parked on the main drag and had a rocket touring pull into a gas station beside us on the way down. First time thats ever happened.! I think there is only a half dozen or so in ontario. People do come over and reminisce about triumphs they have had or known about.ALL are shocked at the engine size.On the ay back at a gas stop a guy pulled in on a Harley Vrod and we asked how he liked it . He bragged about his 100hp at the wheel. Didn't have the heart to tell him he was still47 hp short!

 

[Trirocket3]

I was at Port Dover on the 13th and saw a rocket trike parked on the main drag and had a rocket touring pull into a gas station beside us on the way down. First time thats ever happened.! I think there is only a half dozen or so in ontario. People do come over and reminisce about triumphs they have had or known about.ALL are shocked at the engine size.On the ay back at a gas stop a guy pulled in on a Harley Vrod and we asked how he liked it . He bragged about his 100hp at the wheel. Didn't have the heart to tell him he was still47 hp short!

More like 20-25 short

 

[Mittzy]

I attend a local bike night fairly regularly, although not so much this year. Every time I go though it always gets attention. There's always people who have never seen one in person. What gets me, is almost every time I go, someone tells me that they didn't know that Triumph was still in business. I mean, really?

When I had my '00 Thunderbird Sport, I would chalk it up to Triumph only being back in the U.S since 1995.. But now?? Triumph has been back in production since 1991 and in this country since 1995!! I reply nicely, but in my mind I'm thinking "You people really must have your heads shoved deep in a hole somewhere!!!".. lol

That would look someting like this I would imagine!!!!!

 

[Rocket Scientist]

More like 20-25 short

They make a fair amount of horsepower. They'll womp the $hit out any other stock Harley, but they don't have any feeling of torque until they are wound up tight. Nice bikes though, I like um' !

 

[monks_point]

The story was quite entertaining. Thank you for sharing.

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!