Having had a little mishap with a glass cabinet, hand and several chang. The wife dragged me up to BKK to her hospital for a second opinion. Whilst there to cheer me up she says we can go and look for a Honda Valkyrie for my birthday. Sooo grabs a tuk tuk for the day and trawl round looking for one. Lots of HD's if you like that kind of thing and lots of shadows, steeds, dragstars. Some nice bikes but just nothing that pushed all the right buttons. Then the missus shouts out shes just seen a Valkyrie in a shop window. Tuk Tuk screeches to a halt and we walk back to the shop. Its a Triumph dealer. NO it cant be surely, not here, can it, NOOO, OHHH my god it is. A Rocket 3. As soon as I saw it it was LOVE. Even the missus reckoned it was the sexiest bike she'd seen. Once Id had my leg over her that was it. She had to be mine.
So having picked my colour and extras Im now officially the first to have, once she arrives from Blighty in may, A Triumph Rocket 3.
Some interesting facts. Its the largest production motorcycle in the world at 2,300cc.it has the same size pistons ( 3 ) as the 5 litre Dodge Viper. It has the largest section rear tyre of any bike. It has 140BHP and 147lbs torque which it produces at just 2,500rpm. It has more lbs of torque at tickover than a Honda Blackbird at 8,500rpm. It does 0-60 in 2.8 secs Need I say more.Biker heaven. .
I will be stopping off in HH on the way back to Chumphon to see BOB at Easyriders if anybody would like to drool.
IF YOU CANT DIVE! RIDE!
