I bought the manual on CD off ebay about two months ago. First time I went to check something tonight and my CD has obviously disintegrated into thin air.
Great ! I have one on the original 05 factory service manuals , But Triumph does not offer update supplements to this manual so all the changes that have happened to my Rocket due to the Upgrade kit I did not have any schematics or instruction to impalement the new part numbers and wiring changes So my paper manual is now a conversation piece and reference tool to see how stuff was before Triumph figured out they messed up with some of the part design.
**** it!!The most frustrating three days I ever spent was rewiring an old MG. I'm colorblind. After I had smoked another circuit for the third time, I would grab my sister and, in total frustration, shove her head under the dashboard while screaming "What color is that wire!?!"
Years later when I bought a manual for an old Goldwing, I was totally pissed when I saw that not only would I have to fight to identify what color the wires in the loom actually were, but I had the same battles with the manual, itself - they had also colored the diagrams. I was screwed from both directions and gave up doing anything electrical on that bike.
It's nice to know I have somehow pissed off the folks who made the new R3 manual badly enough that they would want me to relive that kind of frustration.