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.