wjb
Nitrous
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2019
- Messages
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- Location
- California No Longer!
- Ride
- 2008 Rocket III Touring 2002 Bonneville America
I am now the owner of a 2008 Rocket 3 Touring.
I do not know a lot about it's history because the guy I bought it from knew next to nothing about it however, it came with a folder full of receipts and other documents so I should be able to learn more about it as I go through it.
I do know that it was originally sold in North Carolina and since I live in California it is a coast to coast bike.
I traveled 100 miles to get this one and on the ride home it turned over 29K miles. It has D and D exhaust fitted to it with baffles intact otherwise the exhaust is stock and not too loud, it still has all the stock intake plumbing.
I have a couple of concerns, first, the trans. It's difficult to find neutral but very easy to find all sorts of false neutrals! In fact it will jump out of any gear (except 5th) into a false neutral by it's self, usually when decelerating. Not all the time mind you but enough to be very frustrating. Does this sound like something that can be fixed without major tear down?
Next is the power, it's impressive but not as powerful as I was expecting. It's not scary fast. I'm hoping it's just that the tune is stock or close to stock and that a more aggressive tune will wake it up.
It is very stable and smooth on the highway. Overall I'm happy with it mostly because I got a good deal on it and it came with a lot of extras.
I gave it a good cleaning yesterday and boy, does it have a lot of chrome items on it to polish up! Everywhere I look there is some chrome dodad to pay attention to.
I do not know a lot about it's history because the guy I bought it from knew next to nothing about it however, it came with a folder full of receipts and other documents so I should be able to learn more about it as I go through it.
I do know that it was originally sold in North Carolina and since I live in California it is a coast to coast bike.
I traveled 100 miles to get this one and on the ride home it turned over 29K miles. It has D and D exhaust fitted to it with baffles intact otherwise the exhaust is stock and not too loud, it still has all the stock intake plumbing.
I have a couple of concerns, first, the trans. It's difficult to find neutral but very easy to find all sorts of false neutrals! In fact it will jump out of any gear (except 5th) into a false neutral by it's self, usually when decelerating. Not all the time mind you but enough to be very frustrating. Does this sound like something that can be fixed without major tear down?
Next is the power, it's impressive but not as powerful as I was expecting. It's not scary fast. I'm hoping it's just that the tune is stock or close to stock and that a more aggressive tune will wake it up.
It is very stable and smooth on the highway. Overall I'm happy with it mostly because I got a good deal on it and it came with a lot of extras.
I gave it a good cleaning yesterday and boy, does it have a lot of chrome items on it to polish up! Everywhere I look there is some chrome dodad to pay attention to.
