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Should be Riding
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Should be Riding
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Finally Triumph gets involved with some factory support! 
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Check Pants
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Check Pants
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Thats cool.
Id like to know more about the motor they are using.
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Worn Saddle
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The side case had a big triple look to it. Maybe the Explorer/Trophy platform...Hot rodded to the max, of course.
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Should be Riding
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Should be Riding
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Very Cool! It's about time!
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Should be Riding
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Should be Riding
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Looks like his first time out on the Triumph dint go so well http://www.nhra.com/results/default.aspx
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saw a post somewhere that it was a Buell under the skin! Hope that's not true, although if it didn't finish well, well then.... 
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"...Triumph builds the largest-displacement production motorcycle on the planet,..."  This statement (AND EVERY OTHER reason) leads me to believe it will be a Rocket III! 
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Quote:
saw a post somewhere that it was a Buell under the skin! Hope that's not true, although if it didn't finish well, well then....
I heard that rumor as well so I made some phone calls. Western Regional Manager of Triumph sales laughed when I asked about the Buell motor. "We would never do that". But he wouldn't tell me what motor it was. I then call Matt Capri he was pretty hush about the whole matter but did say he just got finishing dyno'ing his Bonneville Salt Flats 190hp rear wheel Triumph Storm wink wink. Time will tell if what I am hearing pans out true. But Suzuki is forced by NHRA to use an outdated 10 year 4 cylinder so the overhead cam Harleys can compete. Kind of like Nascar not allowing the Dodges to run the Hemi V8 that has been banned 42 years. NASCAR makes them run a destroked wedge engine that has been out of production for 10 years to make the competion competitive. It's all a joke. But I would love to see a Triumph win something. But nothing can take away the cool factor of any Triumph. Old or new. 
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