this is the triumph rocket 3 r and at long last we've got our hands on it and we're going to give
you a full honest review so this bike has a 2458 cc 3-cylinder engine and it's the most torqueiest
um that word not really but it is now the most torquey production motorcycle in the world
come on put your back into it not heavy is it oh just a bit now this engine produces 165
brake horsepower which is incredible which is 167 ps or 123 kilowatts aeroplane
uh 123 kilowatts uh at 6000 rpm but it's the torque that is the incredible thing about this
bike it's the most talky motorcycle in the world as uh darcy just said 221 newton meters of torque
at 4 000 rpm that's 163.1 pounds foot of torque as with most bikes and the bike's sort of set up for
the average height which is about five foot ten this is no exception um but obviously if you're a
bit bigger bit smaller you'll still be fine on it but that is probably the mid-range of the height
that it's calibrated for now what does that talk and that power feel like um it's so torquey that
moving and changing speed is just effortless so obviously overtaking is just a twist of the wrist
hills become non-existent and it's it's got a tidal wave of torque behind you
but the way they've done the mapping it doesn't come in too hard on you so if you're careful with
the throttle it's perfectly easy to ride but if you really want it to go and you've got it in
the correct mode which will come on to it flies and you could be reaching crazy speeds in no time
whatsoever it's designed and sort of marketed as a muscle bike as a cruiser but it feels much more
like a sports bike and with the rake and the trail geometry which i'll tell you in a second
it handles much more like a sports bike than a cruiser so this bike is shaft driven which
is quite unusual for a bike it's got a six-speed gearbox and it's got quite really good um brakes
for as you'd expect for what it is it's got 320 mil um brembo double discs at the front
and 300 mil at the rear single disc um and they really do give you some good stopping power
now this video is going to be much more about how the bike rides and handles than
it is about all the specs but we will give you the specs at the end
and we're going to give you the pertinent details and specs as we go along
but this has four modes rain for obvious reasons road and sport and a rider configurable mode
you can feel the difference in the modes obviously sport is very responsive road is not as responsive
but it will give you full throttle if you open it fully there's pros and cons to modes that we've
said before because if you get used to riding in one particular mode and you get at one with
the bike and then you change modes so you're getting used to riding in rain for instance um
and you're suddenly going to sport the bike becomes a different animal so it can catch you out
and that is the negative side of modes um which we have also uh found in in cars with the porsche
911 in the past you get used to the normal mode and put it in support and suddenly that christ
you know it's a different animal so that's uh the negative of it but otherwise it obviously
changes it depending on the road conditions you're riding in so it's a good thing in that respect
this bike's got a seat height of 773 millimeters that right yep um and from
the offset it looks like a massive bike but when you're sitting on it and riding it this
riding position is not much difference to that of an iron and the iron 883 obviously it's a
bigger bite than that but riding position wise it doesn't feel any bigger when you're actually on it
the wheelbase on this is 1677 millimeters which is about that much longer than the heritage classic
harley-davidson which i is my personal bike although as darcy said it doesn't feel long
because of the the seating position um the rake is 27 27.9 degrees and the trail is 134.9 millimeters
now i know there's a review out there from one of the bigger motorcycle channels that said the
rake is 34 degrees and a lot of people think that is the true rate but if you look on the triumph
website we are correct and we have researched it um and the rake being quite steep sports
bike like ish almost means that the handling is more twitchy than you might expect on a muscle
bike or a cruiser as i said it feels more like a sports bike to ride and personally i would
prefer a sort of 30 to 34 degree rake on a bike like this because it would be more stable and
you know with that kind of speed that it can produce and all that torque
you'd be better off with those sort of dimensions but if you know you're a sports bike rider and you
come to this you'd find it absolutely fine if you're a cruiser rider and you come to
this then you'd find it twitchy as with all of our videos we can never avoid background noise
um a train has decided to stop right next to us and we're right next to an airport and it's
a bit windy we have got a dead cat on the mic but that doesn't do everything oh car coming
and there's a car great so this bike weighs 291 kilos which doesn't feel too heavy when you're
riding it but as you can see it's quite heavy when you're pushing it along but compared to most of
the harley-davidson soft tail range it's lighter than that um the heritage classic being an example
that's 316 kilos so it's 28 kilos lighter than that so it's not too heavy for what it is
now one thing we've noticed so we've been stopped here for um 15-20 minutes now the
engine still feels like i'm sitting on an oven so it does get ever so hot and also talking about the
engine it's not particularly wide for such a huge uh capacity uh the tank's actually slightly wider
at the top than the engine so it's a more narrow bike than you'd imagine for the size that it is
so this bike does not to 60 in 2.73 seconds which is absolutely incredible and that is
supercar performance out of something that's a bike that's you know just very small fraction
of the price and um but it's a comparison that's just as fast as a lamborghini aventador so that is
very quick now the ride on this is very nice it's very comfortable the suspension soaks up the bumps
very nicely indeed and we're on the fence today and it's very very bumpy and i haven't had any
problems with that whatsoever so you know you can get on this bike and enjoy just riding normally
but with all that torque and all that power you're always holding back because there's so much there
it's a question of whether you want to unleash it or not so if you weren't the sort of rider who
wanted to to exploit all that power and talk it wouldn't be the bike for you
but if you're an experienced rider and you want to have the most talky bike in the world
wow what a bike to have this bike's got an 18 litre fuel tank and it does 6.82 liters per 100
kilometers or 41.45 miles per gallon which is really good considering how much performance it
gives out and to put that in perspective again my car is a 1.2 liter courser and that does not
to 60 in about nine minutes and that does the same miles per gallon so which one would you go
for this obviously so the range that you'll get out of that full tank is 164 miles so looks wise
is this the bike for you it's very modern uh styled very striking and when you first see it
in the metal in front of you it's like wow look at this bike it's amazing um you've got the sort
of shaft drive and everything to the one side here which we'll film in a second but which means the
wheels open at the back here and these pipes are very short ending there and they make a nice sound
and when you decelerate it pops and bangs a little bit so it's got an interesting note to it so the
avon cobra tyres were made specifically for this bike and you've got a 240 mil a wide rear tyre
and that looks really menacing from behind that looks really cool and from the back of the bike
if you just look at the back little quarter it's similar in styling to a harley davidson fat bulb
now riding along obviously there's no wind protection whatsoever which is fine because
that's the sort of bike it is but with all that power and torque and the speed you can go
i think it would be better with some wind protection and fairing and obviously there
is another version of this the gt which does have some sort of wind protection but you could take
that a step further and have a proper fairing and maybe that would make the bike even nicer because
you could get out of the wind and really exploit that power and talk the mirrors on this bike are
very good they're bar end mirrors which i think are much better than the normal mirrors which come
out here and then you get like you know it sticks out another half a foot which is much better
and you get a much better visibility of the very behind and you only get a little bit
of your shoulder in the back whereas once them here you get sort of three causes of
your shoulder and a tiny little bit of the of the road behind you so this is much better way to go
now if you do happen to have a friend and they want to lift on the back there is actually a
very nicely styled hidden foot peg here and it folds out like that and you can sit on the back
obviously um the stand on this while i'm talking about it it doesn't lean much onto the stand
so it feels like it easily could go back the other way and tip over so be careful of that
if you are on the back i would say it's fine for a short journey down to the shops or something but i
wouldn't feel very comfortable sitting here for a long distance and if someone accelerated with
all that talk you might find yourself sitting on the rear wheel and ruining your smallest body part
wow now interestingly when you do rev it it does this little shift to the left like that which is
the same as the bmw r18 which we uh reviewed about a week ago and that was the same sort of thing and
so i don't quite know why it does that but it does so it's just one of those little things
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more so our verdict on the triumph rocket 3. um
it's a lovely bike it's extremely powerful extremely torquey and it's very exhilarating
to ride so if you're after something that can pretty much beat anything on the planet then
buy this motorbike um if you want just a sort of cruiser bike to uh potter around on it's going to
be too much of a handful to be honest um so you need to be the right sort of person you
i'd say you need to have a bit of riding skill before you get on this although you could ride it
with um sort of less experience say you put it into rain mode it would be less powerful etcetera
but it could be a handful it's a bike you've got to be careful with you've got to treat it
with respect because it is the the most talky bag on the planet so if i say if you've got the skill
it's a wonderful bite to have if you like the sort of modern styling and everything go for it
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