Fred, is it true you have to watch this video before you can demo the Triumph Rocket III.
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The making of the Rocket III
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 Skip MMShadowT |
The making of the Rocket III |
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Posts: 2287 06/24/07 9:21 PM
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This is excellent! All motor bike companies should adapt these rigorous tests. Bob
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Posts: 12 06/24/07 10:37 PM |
That is a good one. Remind me never to volunteer for a brake test!
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Posts: 7901 06/25/07 6:35 AM
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Very funny. I'm still laughing. You've got to hand it to those Triumph folks this was heart warming.
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Posts: 450 06/25/07 9:17 AM Tail Gunner |
I bet the guy on the grounds thoughts weren't on his heart being warmed !!!! hahaha...Bob <><
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Posts: 990 06/25/07 3:26 PM |
Is that where the term crotch rocket came from ?
Jay
Patriot Guard Rider http://www.patriotguard.org/ 98' T Black & Chrome 69' Buick GS 400 Conv. " Never ride faster than your angel can fly" "Ask the American Indians what happens when you don't control immigration"
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Posts: 450 06/25/07 3:47 PM Tail Gunner |
Crotch Rocket..............That's funny Jay !!!!. Good one !!!.............Bob <><
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Posts: 5940 06/26/07 4:46 AM
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Skip,
That is an awesome video. Incredibly witty and extremely funny! I wonder how many of the Triumph engineers, technicians, assemblers and managers have seen this piece. I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did. It is hilarious and I wish I would have had to see it before taking a demo ride. Then I may have taken multiple demo rides just to see it again and again! I was following a Rocket III on a spirited demo ride last Friday. After a few tight turns the lady riding the Rocket III let me pass by. She knew that Rocket III, with its super wide turn resistant rear tire, could not keep up in the turns with the Triumph Tiger I was demoing. I was glad to have the opportunity to ride faster through those country-road curves. Despite all that special care taken in growing the Rocket III engine from an embryo the too wide rear tire kills too much of the fun for me to consider buying one. On the other hand that Triumph Tiger is very impressive in the turns. For an adventure-tourer Triumph has the suspension set-up very firm which allows for suburb stability when at full lean angle in the curviest of curves. Like Kirk/Fedspaz, who needs a 12-step motorcycle program, but is more like to have 12 bikes in his garage instead, I think the Tiger would have to be one of the 12 bikes in my garage if I could afford a garage that held 12 bikes. 
Fred
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Posts: 573 06/26/07 9:44 AM |
Fred,
Tony |
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Posts: 5940 06/26/07 11:09 AM
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Tony,
For riding as a single, the Tiger suspension felt no different to me than any cruiser with their shorter travel. Suzuki's V-Strom (DL1000) and BMW's GS650 are adventure-tourers that have such soft suspension with long travel that it just gets too shakey and weird in the corners for me and the way I ride. I rode the blue Tiger on Fri. I would have to agree with you regarding the K1200GT. I rode one during Daytona's Bike Week in 2003. It sure has a sweet and powerful engine. Last Fri. the demo ride I took on BMW's new F800ST was fairly tame, much more so than any other BMW demo ride I have ever taken. I must have had the wrong ride leader. I'm glad to hear you really got to test that GT out at high speed.
Fred
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Posts: 573 06/26/07 12:59 PM |
Well Fred, I'm sorry to say that my buddy is probably the reason your ride was tamer. 4 Tony |
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Posts: 5940 06/26/07 4:17 PM
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Tony,
I had been thinking that perhaps BMW had some trouble and that is why their normally spirited ride was so lame, I mean tame. I had no idea it was so recent. How did you buddy lose control of that K1200R? What does he normally ride?
Fred
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Posts: 572 06/27/07 5:38 PM |
That's a Classic...
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Posts: 573 06/28/07 9:20 AM |
Fred,
he normally rides his 1994 Honda Magna, so apparently 80 HP is OK but twice that is to much. actually he ran just a bit wide on a 30MPH corner and got in the gravel a bit. the guy directly behind him said he thought he was going to save it as he got it back on the road but ended up crashing on the opposite side of the road about 200 to 300 feet past the corner. The BMW guys said that bike had stability control, so that may have had something to do with him almost saving it, however i did not see it listed on the BMW web site. he told me he just didn't lean it enough, to use to the cruisers i guess. I had made me ride in front of him the whole beginning of the week to keep him from riding too fast on the unfamiliar roads, he gets in front of me for just a few minutes and look what he does . It's almost like he knew he couldn't trust
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Posts: 5940 06/28/07 11:07 AM
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Tony,
Fred
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Posts: 573 06/28/07 2:52 PM |
BMW was surprisingly cool about the whole thing. they were more concerned about him than the bike (as it
should be, but even after he was up and walking around they still didn't care much about the bike, hey it's not theirs, I guess) They told me and Megan
that it doesn't happen all that often; as some one under 30 was rare at these events, but they told my buddy it happens just about once every time the
truck goes out to an event like this. So I'm not sure which was true, could have been trying to make him feel better. I think all the BMW people handled it
about as well as they could. Probably just a little ticked off about delaying dinner and all the paper work they would have to do.
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00 demo ride on
Thursday, he crashed a K1200R sport into a tree just a few bikes in front of me. I came around a corner and there was the bike lying on the ground motor still
wound up, coolant all over, and front end ripped off the bike. Thankfully he was sitting up on the side of the road with the wind knocked out of him only. He
is one lucky SOB.
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