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    Kiwi Rider scoops new Triumph model!

    Forget about your tired old Rocket III news stories, boyos.

    This month, our very own Kiwi Rider magazine has the EXCLUSIVE, WORLD-BEATING scoop on... wait for it...

    An all-new Triumph, the Rocket One Hundred and Eleven!

    Check it out before they fly off the shelves!
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    And any Tolkien fans suggesting that Triumph intended for it to be referred to as the 'Rocket Eleventy-One' will be summarily beaten over the head with a dead chicken.
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    heh... no wonder jRANDOM has 2162 posts to his name. A fitting name it is too....

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    nadgers - and here I was thinking they had score an exclusive on the triumph wonder bra.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom
    Forget about your tired old Rocket III news stories, boyos.

    This month, our very own Kiwi Rider magazine has the EXCLUSIVE, WORLD-BEATING scoop on... wait for it...

    An all-new Triumph, the Rocket One Hundred and Eleven!

    Check it out before they fly off the shelves!
    Fuckin' cabbages.

    That's not all they scooped, Nash has already totalled one. Seems they dont go 'round corners quite as well as the SV huh, Nash?
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    Quote Originally Posted by White trash
    Fuckin' cabbages.

    That's not all they scooped, Nash has already totalled one. Seems they dont go 'round corners quite as well as the SV huh, Nash?
    Maybe it should have a warning sticker on the "tank"-Drag Strips Only!

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    Quote Originally Posted by White trash
    Fuckin' cabbages.

    That's not all they scooped, Nash has already totalled one. Seems they dont go 'round corners quite as well as the SV huh, Nash?
    hahahah idiots

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    Bet they were scared to let Vege and Stretch near it,it'd end up with knobs in Woodhill and Stretch doing sideways action for the camera.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom
    And any Tolkien fans suggesting that Triumph intended for it to be referred to as the 'Rocket Eleventy-One' will be summarily beaten over the head with a dead chicken.
    OW OW OW OW OW OW OW

    One wonders if Triumph have really thought this through - I thought we'd done away with the whole John Wayne walk at the end of the 60s....

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    Ahhhh,so it was true after all,
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    Aw fer cryin' out loud!

    It would have taken all of, oh, two seconds work to realise ALL Triumph names (with the exception of the TT600 - and that flopped) are taken from models from the company's original existance.

    Of course, the original Rocket III was a BSA, but it all ended up as Triumph.

    (I've got some photos of one at home - it is still being used to haul a sidecar!)

    This is almost as bad as why the film "The Madness of King George" didn't have his number in the title. It should have been "The Madness of King George III", but they were worried the Merkins would think they'd missed the first two and not go to see it!

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    I was waiting for Nash's road test report on the rocket3 but it never mde a mention, maybe next month.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom
    And any Tolkien fans suggesting that Triumph intended for it to be referred to as the 'Rocket Eleventy-One' will be summarily beaten over the head with a dead chicken.
    Yeah-yeah, we all KNOW it's a Rocket one-one-one so you can remember what number to call when its crashed/shat itself and you need a taxi
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    And then there are the reporters/proof-readers/publishers who don't know the difference between Roman numerals and ordinary numbers, leading to such schoolboy howlers as the Triumph 111 and World War 11 (I don't seem to recollect World Wars 3 through 11 for some reason...).

    Also KiwiRider magazine desperately needs a sub-editor. The photo captions in the latest issue's story about the FJR1300 are real cringe material. Obviously nobody read this before it was printed.

    For a small fee (with maybe the odd test ride thrown it) the Hitcher household would gladly assist the publishers. Prompt turnaround and a keen eye for detail guaranteed...
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