This has to be the ultimate cruiser, I Have chosen to review all variants of this bike ans the power plant and frame are the same, just the dressing and fuel mapping is different for each varient.

I have rode a HD Electra Glide FLHCi from Washington to Oregon in 2005 which made me believe I wanted a cruiser, but not a Harley (Sorry it is an image thing) I had seen the Triumph Rocket III (RIII) in the press and even sat on one it was massive in fact the biggest production bike on the market reported to be the fastest production bike in a Quater mile standing start, and I can believe it.

This bike handels superbly, it is quick off the throttle unbelievebly so and will leave most bikes standing yes most, but it does require some nerve to whip it through the twisties but it does go through them at a fair pace. You can sit in top gear at 2500rpm and ride as slow or as fast as you dare without a glitch or you can shift up and down to release that huge tourquy power which will spin up the wheel or pop up the front end without much trouble. Beware though it does eat up tyres and they are not the cheapest, the Original and classic variants have a 240 section tyre which are only made by Metzelor and Avon and there is always a shortage. the Classic Roadster have a smaller section wheel making tyre choice larger.

You can bling this bike up or rat it down, even supercharge it, and to add BHP cheaply you simply remove the Cat box and put a byepass on this with a set of Triumph "ToR'exhausts will give you a staggering extra 26BHP, A re-mapping of the ecu to remove the 7% restrictions in 1 to 3 gears and open up the second throttle bodies will give you a cool 160bhp (give or take) - the software is free a cable is cheap to connect your laptop and the ecu maps are freely available from Tuneboy.

Riding with a pillion is a pleasure and hardley noticable to the handeling. The power plant a wopping 2.3Ltr tripple engine only requires servicing at 10,000 mile intervals and seems almost indestructive.

If you own one of these you will have a permenant grin, of course Sports bike riders don't get it which is great.