First ride on a rocket what were your impressions

[Stepnerd]

I went to the dealer to test a rocket and a thunderbird. I'd never been on any type of cruiser before. I've always been a boy racer at heart, and I considered cruisers to be old man's bikes. But, as I was turning 50 (and my knees were turning 70), I decided it was time to admit I'm an old man, and to give cruisers a try.
I got on the rocket first. After getting about a mile down the road, I knew I was going to buy it. I was expecting it to steer like a ship without a keel, so the lightness of the handling it was such a pleasant surprise, that I was like a kid in a candy shop. Add the grunt into the equation (the demo already had triple K&Ns and TORS), and that was all it took.
I didn't even bother riding a thunderbird.

 

[sleeves]

Bought mine from an internet auction, never having ridden one, won the auction, got my wife to drop me off so I could ride it home, was very happy with it.

 

[Rick Morris]

I had only seen the Rocket at the Polaris dealer where I bought parts from. They had Triumph, Arctic Cat, KTM, Victory and Polaris. They only kept the Touring bikes in the showroom so I never knew they had a Roadster. I really wasn't interested in another triumph after owning a 73 Bonneville and a 67 TR6. I was on craigslist one day and spotted this 2011 Roadster for short money. I still had my VN2000, Springer and a couple other bikes so I really wasn't interested in spending money on another bike. A couple weeks later the Roadster showed up in the first CL post again. I was going to be near the area the next day so I called the guy. He told me it was his and it was stored in a barn if I wanted to see it he could show it the next night. So the next day in November @ 30 degrees I went to see it. I rode it and I could not stop laughing. I was blown away at the power of this behemoth. I was freeeeeeezing but I took it out again and I was hooked. I laughed the whole time I rode it. I wheelied it accidently coming out of an intersection and I was sold. 4 months later it was mine. And I love it today.

By the way I am only 5' 8" and @ 190lbs and the Rocket doesn't even know I am there. Its like a monkey on a Clydesdale.

 

[rocketjohn]

I had been wanting the R3T ever since I knew of them. Money was always needed for something else though, and isn't it always that way? Well, then one popped up at the local Triumph dealer and I recognized it as one he had a couple years before. The original buyer had gone to divorce and the bike had to be divvied up as assets. So it was offered at waaaaaay below NADA value. And it had only 3300 miles from new having languished in storage waiting for the PO's divorce decrees. The stars aligned in such a way as I knew that bike was really mine, and I just needed to go claim it. My credit union thankfully agreed and I was on the bike for no money down. At first it seemed ponderous in the handling department, but after a good shake down run I realized it was nothing of the sort...you do have take hold of the bike and RIDE it....it will do what you ask, but you have to speak assertively. I have been running a Suzuki 1400 Intruder and it was pretty much my do everything bike, cruise, tour, tear up curves...yeah...pretty good ground clearance....Now I realize the Intruder is like a Ford Mustang, and the Rocket is like a Bentley Brooklands. Each fine in their niche but the only similarity is they both have two wheels.