R3T Transmission Trouble

[bullsco]

thank you

no,, thank you for sharing your experience with us. I am not a r3 owner either but joined the forum to read and learn prior to making my next bike purchase. Your experience has helped markedly.. thanks again,

 

[GPMAZ]

That's OK with me. I probably shouldn't be hanging around much on this forum anymore being as I am no longer a Rocket III owner. It just wouldn't look right to the other owners out there. I don't want to get flamed or be thought of as some sort of trouble maker. Thanks to all of you guys for bearing with me and trying to help me out.

The owner of the site is not an R3 owner. Unless and until we kick him out (not quite sure how we'd manage that ), I think its safe to say you're welcome to stay.

 

[slidderhd]

My 2 cents

Like many of you, I came to the Rocket because EVERYBODY has a Harley now. I wanted to be different and have the challenge of making it my own and nobody within 500 miles having one look like mine. Yep, the dealers are crap. That is because they don't see them often enough to learn the details. As far as the Victory goes, I have great friends that have a Cross Country and it is a sweet bike. They are the next fad. Bottom line, they are still Air Cooled and at 60k miles, you might be rebuilding the engine.

I have a friend in Tennessee that just rolled over 59,000 miles on his R3T. Never had an issue. Just changed the oil and put gas in her. He pulls a hearse with his R3T now for bikers that want something special. Can't do that with anything else but a Goldwing. Is she perfect, nope, but none of them are.

I paid only $9500.00 for a 2008 model this year on ebay. Try that with the others. It also has the lowest ownership costs to maintain. Triumph says service every 10k miles. It doesn't get any better than that.

 

[warp9.9]

Like many of you, I came to the Rocket because EVERYBODY has a Harley now. I wanted to be different and have the challenge of making it my own and nobody within 500 miles having one look like mine. Yep, the dealers are crap. That is because they don't see them often enough to learn the details. As far as the Victory goes, I have great friends that have a Cross Country and it is a sweet bike. They are the next fad. Bottom line, they are still Air Cooled and at 60k miles, you might be rebuilding the engine.

I have a friend in Tennessee that just rolled over 59,000 miles on his R3T. Never had an issue. Just changed the oil and put gas in her. He pulls a hearse with his R3T now for bikers that want something special. Can't do that with anything else but a Goldwing. Is she perfect, nope, but none of them are.

I paid only $9500.00 for a 2008 model this year on ebay. Try that with the others. It also has the lowest ownership costs to maintain. Triumph says service every 10k miles. It doesn't get any better than that.

**** dude, I have 59,500 miles on my 06 and hell ya I brike a few things will I part with it yes of course but it will cost you 25,000 dollars and I will just go out and buy another to thrash. People are sometimes hard on Triumph especially the ones that won't follow any guidlines set by them car tires, wrong recommended gas and oils, superchargers, turbos, Carpenter kits, 40 lbs. of electronics. Hell something has to go wrong and yet Triumph in a lot of cases steps up to the plate. Now once in a while you will hear of someone like above who truly had a problem and for some reason Triumph burped for that I feel for him. But pound for pound there is no better bike.

Oh and then there are the few that think superchargers and high compression mix together well. Don't trust them feller as they are nutters

I wonder about high compression and turbos HMMMMM might have to look at that one Gracie is a wee bit slow