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Thankfully appearances deceive and the Rocket works much better than it should. It's balanced, fast, has excellent brakes, fast, handles well, and did I mention that it's fast?
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Displacing a class-busting 2300cc's, Triumph claims some 140 bhp and 147 ft/lbs of torque, strong enough to shove even a tobacco barn down the road. Impressive? Yes, but scary too. In any gear, I could whack the throttle open and the bike slammed forward like an angry F-18 on full afterburner.
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I never forgot that motorcycling's biggest baddest dog was pounding away between my legs.
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Inside the silvery cases lives a fuel injected liquid-cooled oversquare DOHC powerplant with 4 valves per cylinder activated via shim and bucket. 2 sparkplugs for each cylinder light the mixture and the 120-degree crank spins clockwise while balance, input and final-drive shafts all rotate the other way.
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Those monster throttle bodies suck loud air, the horizon goes blurry, and around fifty-five hundred the mill really howls. By then you'll back off anyway, palms sweaty and eyeballs itchy from windburn. This thing flat-out cooks.
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The Rocket uses an advanced digital engine management system. Various sensors (throttle body, engine revs, coolant/ambient temperature and exhaust gas) all feed information back to the ECU. A master chip processes the data and balances throttle valves, timing and fuel delivery for optimum performance. Basically the engine maps itself, cylinder by cylinder, for the best possible running.
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A first for any Triumph, final drive is shaft and bevel gear inside super-thick alloy cases. What else could be counted on to reliably control the bike's enormous power and torque?
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Clutch pull is feathery light with progressive engagement easily controlled even though this is, yes, you guessed it, the largest clutch ever fitted to a production bike.
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One of the bike's idiosyncrasies is a lack of engine braking. Maybe it's due to the 39-pound flywheel
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In spite of its intimidating size and weight, I was able to toss the machine into corners almost like a sportbike.
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Styling is best described as "completely bonkers meets incredible excess".
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The curved shift lever rubbed my left foot sore, but your feet are likely smaller. Besides, with 147 ft/lbs of torque on tap, shifting is entirely optional.
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The throttle delivers euphoria just like those hand-held morphine drips in the hospital emergency room.

Motorcyclist Online wrote:Triumph Rocket 3 = 11.30sec @ 119.84 Stock