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stride that motorcycle, one feels
supremely magnificent – like a Dothraki
Bloodrider coursing into battle…or maybe
that’s just me…?
Anyway, that bike then instantly becomes an
unforgettable and indomitable pinnacle of
motorcycle design which can only be admired and
desired – but not copied.
And it cannot be copied because it occupies
another plane of motorcycling altogether, a wild,
lunatic plane of incomprehensible torque figures
that look like a misprint.
This is the second time Triumph has done
something like this.
The first time was when it created the original
and previously-impossible-to-conceive-of Rocket
III. A 2.3-litre motorcycle carved from the deep
bedrock of torque; massive and elemental, with
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a road presence others could only envy, but that
rode and handled rings around other massive bikes
– and some smaller ones as well.
That was back in 2004.
In 2020, the bedrock of torque turns out to
be deeper than we ever imagined. Triumph
has doubled-down…hell, it’s actually gone all
in, and produced another Rocket – the all-new
2.5-litre Rocket 3.
And things will never be the same again.
Forget everything you think you know about
powerful bikes. Nothing you have ever ridden
can even compare to a Rocket 3.
It’s simple numerals – and they never lie. There is
nothing you can buy right now, off-the-shelf, that
produces these numbers. There’s very little