new to this ! ZX14R rider turned Rocket III rider.

Rick Morris said:

Agreed. I have had the same thing happen to me at least 4 times this summer. My wife and kids ride with me (son #1-ZX10, son #2- ZZR600, son # 3 Springer & wife Ninja 650R) and the Rocket gets the Holy Sh#t what size is that? WOW thats beautiful and so on... The family just walks away. The best thing is I think there is only one or two other Rockets on Cape Cod. I love this thing.

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No one around here has one either. It was funny a guy and his wife pulled up a couple weeks ago on a Custom Harley and when they were walking by my rocket the guy says to his wife "look hun an old triumph". Then proceeded to educate her on how it was a V6...lol....in didn't have the heart to tell him it was a 3 cylinder..

Rick Morris said:

1olbull I am up there with ya, I feel younger now that I am on the Rocket. Ponce de Leon would have loved this bike. I still ride the kids Ninjas once in a while to remember why I dont ride rice rockets anymore. My wrist, shoulders, elbows, neck, back, hips and everything between my adams apple and shins tend to hurt after 20 minutes hanging over the gas tank. But I still act like I am 16. Just ask my wife.

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I don't EVER act 16, because my body just can't do it!
I do, however remain permanently immature as heck!

1olbull said:

I don't EVER act 16, because my body just can't do it!
I do, however remain permanently immature as heck!

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Me too...my gf always says " you're 37 years old!!who else do you know that's 37 who acts that way? I always reply by saying something like "boobies!?!?" .....

1olbull said:

I don't EVER act 16, because my body just can't do it!
I do, however remain permanently immature as heck!

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OK, so I don't physically act 16. That would be a stretch.

uppermirocket4 said:

Me too...my gf always says " you're 37 years old!!who else do you know that's 37 who acts that way? I always reply by saying something like "boobies!?!?" .....

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Holy $hit! 37 years!?!?!
I have underwear that old!
I was seriously riding my souped up Ninja to 42 years when I had a near fatal 110 mph crash in 1987.
After healing, my resulting body had to have the ergos of a cruiser.
With a family to be there for, you have made a WISE decision!

1olbull said:

Holy $hit! 37 years!?!?!
I have underwear that old!
I was seriously riding my souped up Ninja to 42 years when I had a near fatal 110 mph crash in 1987.
After healing, my resulting body had to have the ergos of a cruiser.
With a family to be there for, you have made a WISE decision!

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But I don't like the neat fatal part. Just to be clear. Just saying... yes it was a WISE decision. I agree.

uppermirocket4 said:

No one around here has one either. It was funny a guy and his wife pulled up a couple weeks ago on a Custom Harley and when they were walking by my rocket the guy says to his wife "look hun an old triumph". Then proceeded to educate her on how it was a V6...lol....in didn't have the heart to tell him it was a 3 cylinder..

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Funnily enough the same sort of thing happened to me about a month ago, a gentleman was admiring my R3 in a carpark and when I told him it was a triple he asked me a couple of times if I was sure it wasn't a 6. When I explained it has only 3 cylinders but 6 spark plugs he told his wife that that was where he'd gotten confused....

This is a picture of my old ZX-14R which I traded in on a Tiger 800XCx earlier this year. I liked this bike a lot but I found I was riding it less and less, usually I would take the R3 in preference. Also to get luggage for the ZX was prohibitively expensive so I was restricted to day trips and overnight rides at the most. I scared myself on the few occasions I really opened it up thinking if I come off at this speed I'm gonna be a pair of boots and a kilometre long red smear on the road!! P.s I love the Tiger!!!!!!!!!