Unhappy wife

David Gravlin

David Gravlin

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Danvers, Massachusetts
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2015 Triumph Rocket 3 Touring
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problem solved
 
Same (mostly). My wife couldn't sit on the stock pillion seat for more than a few minutes. The Corbin setup allows her to ride for a couple hours. The stock pillion pegs are now the limiting factor - which unfortunately isn't as easily solved.
 
With that thread title I thought is could be anything? :roll: I just see the new Rockets as great two up bikes.
 
I'm sure it has been suggested more than once that Triumph should market a Goldwing killer, with all the comforts of the wing (or better yet BMW K touring bike) but with the brute power of the Rocket.
 
atomsplitter said:
I'm sure it has been suggested more than once that Triumph should market a Goldwing killer, with all the comforts of the wing (or better yet BMW K touring bike) but with the brute power of the Rocket.
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Honestly I love my rocket and I wouldn't change a thing other than I need my wife to be comfortable so she'll come with me once in a while The corbin seat fixed the problem, I'm just fifteen hundred poorer
 
David Gravlin said:
Honestly I love my rocket and I wouldn't change a thing other than I need my wife to be comfortable so she'll come with me once in a while The corbin seat fixed the problem, I'm just fifteen hundred poorer
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The last thing I plan on doing is bringing it in to be dyno tuned and flashed and derestricted, and thinking about a mustad windshield 22"
 
Dr.D said:
I do NOT see the new Rockets as great two up bikes. Sorry guys.
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I have to agree - although my wife is a 6 footer :oops: and finds the backrest and footpeg positioning very uncomfortable. Rocketeers with more petite wives (only one at a time, obviously) will probably find things much easier.
The only bike that my wife really misses for comfort is my old Aspencade - she used to regularly fall asleep on longer runs (I could feel her helmet peak nudging my back and hear her snoring over the intercom :D)
 
I had a 2013 R3T and recall putting on aftermarket foot boards for the wife. Amazon stuff, easy to find. On several machines, I've also learned to put automotive gel seats under sheepskin covers for ultimate comfort. As the get seat drapes over the sides of the passenger knob, it effectively widens it as well. In this GT picture, the passenger is a luggage system:) but you can see the driver gel seat extended out from under the sheepskin. Add the mid controls and rox risers, it's like riding a cloud.
 

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