When the Rocket 3 was introduced in 2004, there was hope at Triumph that it would storm the United States' sales charts. After all, Americans like cruisers, the name Triumph has a cachet there and, in the land where bigger is better, the Rocket 3's monstrous 2.3-litre triple with its cylinders aligned vintage-style along the bike would surely be the best.
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a
person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as
possible" - Freeman Dyson