Best Rocket yet.

[avgas]

Yay now it's a Bentley thread

I challenge you to a duel good sir

[Horse]

+/- 200km to the $32 tankful - depending on wrist-work. The roll-on surge is so intoxicating I tend to slow down just to wap the throttle and get back up to speed. Doesn't take long!

Bit of restraint on a Touring gets you 280-300km / tank quite easily.

[T.W.R]

Almost as nice as this one

[Big Dave]

Interesting. I use 'when the warning light comes on' as the reference. 230 is the best I have got from a Tourer - and that was with a conscious effort to be efficient around the Coromandel.

I've seen it come on at 180km when tailing sportsbikes (which they do pretty easily).

[Horse]

Interesting. I use 'when the warning light comes on' as the reference. 230 is the best I have got from a Tourer - and that was with a conscious effort to be efficient around the Coromandel.

I've seen it come on at 180km when tailing sportsbikes (which they do pretty easily).

Oh, the warning light? That's pretty conservative, comes on with 75km-ish to go. The trip computer on the Touring is pretty useful, you can run it down to 0 with some confidence, although the last 80km sometimes turns out to be 70km when you look at how far you've actually travelled.

And yeah, enthusiastic application of the right hand can see you get a 250km tank fairly easily.

[Scottie]

I bought the Touring version in April this year. Have done 7000kms so far. It is perfect for me and the wife for long rides and touring.

Contrary to popular belief, it handles better than most cruisers (better than my old VTX1300 at least) and the ground clearance is better than most too.

The torque and accelleration at low revs is EPIC and with a few tweaks you can add 15-25 extra HPs - not that you really need to.

It is definitely rides like a bike and is NOT just an engine on wheels.

Lovin it and can't weight till summer when we can do some serious miles.

[bluebird]

I know I have seen the ear to ear grin when you rocked up on it!

[Rogue Rider]

These are pretty mean bikes. I owned one for 3 months, sadly it wasn't the bike for me, bloody thing was a Frankenstein and had been seriously messed around with.
Bike shop didn't disclose everything I suspect, anyway took it back and swapped it for a Speed Triple.
Would own another Rocket, the new Roadster is a different beastie again, handles better, and looks the part too. Heavy, but manageable if respected.... I did a wheelie on my Rocket, but not as impressive as the one in this post... Far out... go hard or go home.

[ukusa]

I bought the Touring version in April this year. Have done 7000kms so far.

Lovin it and can't weight till summer when we can do some serious miles.

Hell, what do you call serious miles? 7000 kms in 3 months, that's pretty serious kays to me. I've only managed 6000 in 9 months on my Bird. It doesn't get used at all during the week though because of a company car.