Get down and take a look at the final drive...Get down on your hands and knees and look closely at the junction between the swingarm half and the front of the bevel box. The look at your Rocket.
The Rocket has 4 hex caps securing the half swingarm to the bevel box. The 109 has 3. It's pretty widely publicized that the junction is prone to failure much like Beemer's Paralever casting on the GS models. Could be that Suzuki revised it in later models but the intro year had 3.
I'm not implying that all fail, but there is a noted failure rate.
Besides, I think the bike is fugg'in ugly. If I wanted the Arlen Ness look, I'd buy a Victoryand if I wanted or desired the V-twin look, I'd buy a Milwuakee vibrator. I prefer originality over clones. That's why I have a Rocket in the first place.
Finally, of course it's faster than a VTX. It's modified. Stock for stock, the R3 will stomp a 109 and a VTX given the same rider skill.
Compare apples to apples, not apples to oranges and your statements will hold water. Right now, your statements are a strainer....
We live in this society that thrives on I got this and I got that and mine is faster than yours and so on. I could tuck a NOX bottle under the side panel on my KLR with a 30 shot fogger and beat a VTX in a drag, however, I could care less.
