Triumph Rocket III - Everyone knows about it

We (notice, the use of the new word, ‘we’, instead of ‘I’) reach Madiwala, well ahead of time to board my Multi-Axle Volvo (link below) on a rainy Friday evening. Finally, we are comfortably seated, bags neatly tucked under or placed overhead. The bus is packed with ‘Mallus’ of all sizes and shapes, some brimming already with the excitement of reaching ‘God’s own Country’.

I see a call, I figure out its an international number, I pick the call to realize, oh its ‘Tiwari’ online. Well, I start talking, catching up what all could happen and could not in this new phase of life. Knowing Tiwari being Tiwari, I go on to take one of the biggest risks of my life and ask him ‘would you like to talk to Ajomy’. Well then, two of them had nice, animated conversation and then I get the phone back. We talk about bikes, the engines, the license, the sates where he would like to ride, whether ‘kissing the bride’ is allowed in India, whether it happened, if not why, swooping the bride and carrying her into the car vs. kissing the bride…the topics went on. Finally, we decided to resume the talks once we were back in Bangalore after the weekend trip.

As a direct consequence of this conversation, almost all the people in the bus realized three things:

1. The two persons huddled next to each other have just got married recently in a church, where ‘something’ unfortunately could not happen
2. These two persons have a friend in US, who has got a license to wed/as well as to ride a bike
3. The bike which he intends to buy is 2300 cc monster from the Triumph stable

I am not sure, which of the above, but we did get a lot of attention from the co-travelers till we hopped out of it.



For the weak at heart and the un-initiated : Triumph Rocket III

“America, there's big, and there's really big. A 20-ounce Coke is big; the 72-ounce "Bladder Buster" from the local Stop 'n' Rob is really big. The Ford Excursion is big; the Hummer H1 is really big. In the world of motorcycles, cruiser motorcycles in particular, the new Kawasaki Vulcan 2000 is big--but the Triumph Rocket III is really big. Twenty-two hundred and ninety-four cubic centimeters big, to be exact. And with 147 foot-pounds of torque, it's also likely to be damn near the hardest accelerating production street bike in the world (in a straight line, at least), if Triumph's press babble can be trusted. God save the queen, and don't forget the brave motorcycle road testers, too”