Rocket 3 discontinued (fails emissions tests)

Claviger said:

Does Triumph give any ****s about Euro 4 now after Brexit?

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Yup because officially they're still in for 2 years. And it will not surprise me at all if Brexit is reversed - though frankly I couldn't personally give a ****. Also (and I stand ready to be corrected) iirc the UK adopts the Euro Mot Criteria in 2017 - No Bureaucrats will reverse that in time. Anything to get nasty smelly, noisy M/C off the road.

Think on this - It may also be an impetus for Triumph to shift manufacturing to Romania - In the Eurozone and dirt cheap labour. The Bloors run a company - not an "enthusiast mfr". It's what saved Triumph.

Triumph is a MASS producer but not a MONSTER MASS producer - it has to have a product that is acceptable to ALL markets. Others would be Guzzi, KTM. The only companies able to escape Euro4 are tiny bespoke companies like Ariel or Confederate. I know Guzzi had to castrate the Cali-1400 by about 25% to pass Euro4. Honda can happily say - ok Bike X we'll simply not sell to the Eurozone anymore. But I'll bet they wont design many new ones that cannot be sold there.

I did read that for example the Suzuki Hayabusa is also in the line of fire. KTM 1290. The current Ducati Paningale (they've made a smaller one).

The Thunderbird iirc is Euro4 compliant.

I was being facetious, but, you bring up some interesting points.

All in all, **** the EU eco freaks and anyone who helped implement such tight standards on motorcycles, it's absurd and the real targets need to be industrial facilities.

All this does is reinforce my happiness that I have a R3R before they kill them, and live in a place with super clean air and no emissions testing.

I lived in the EU for 7 years, and the one thing I couldn't stand was their heavy handed control of vehicle modification.

Same cwap been going on for years. Ever get behind a bus at a red light, and choke on the fumes, but it's legal, yet my little lawnmower is illegal. Remember when almost all cars/trucks, had air pumps? Pumping air into the exhaust manifold. Claiming it helped burn off UN-burnt fuel coming out the exhaust? When in reality all they were doing is diluting the exhaust with fresh air from the pump, causing the reading at the tail pipe to look OK. As long as they (Gobments) keep measuring by parts per million, instead of say for instance, "volume", (50CC Moped vs 10,000CC bus) my lawnmowers and weedeaters will never be legal. Sometimes smarter is dumber.

They keep improving things even worse all the time..........................

EasTexRIII said:

They keep improving things even worse all the time..........................

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that's the government way;if it aint broke fix it until it is

barbagris said:

There are a whole load of bikes that will disappear due to Euro4. It´s not that big a surprise. If they do develop a new R3 - It´ll almost certainly have to be tamper-proof. More efficient - Well Diesel then.

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Diesel?!?!
Loopy (@mexican) will surely be ALL OVER this motor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1olbull said:

Diesel?!?!
Loopy (@mexican) will surely be ALL OVER this motor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ha ha ha haaaaaa

ricochet said:

This is good news.

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Not necessarily. R3 goes away = spare parts go away...not good...

grampi said:

Not necessarily. R3 goes away = spare parts go away...not good...

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If our beloved beast does go away and parts get tight, it'll be time to trade in for the new Thruxton with the cool looking fairing (before Triumph decides to quit producing the accessories for the bike).

Well, in the USA at least, if a bike goes to it's grave, the manufacturer, its successors or assigns must keep parts available for 10 years minimum. Anything remotely popular will have aftermarket parts for most of any owner's remaining life.