2020 TRIUMPH ROCKET 3 R & GT
FIRST REVIEW
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riumph's Rocket 3 has held biggest-is-best
bragging rights ever since the British compa-
ny's 2294cc three-cylinder maxi-motorcycle
with a lengthways crank and heaps of attitude was
launched back in 2004.
In the past 15 years, no less than 28,380 ex-
amples of all the different variants of this have found
customers around the world. And even though
Triumph dropped its titanic triple from its European
lineup a couple of years ago, rather than spend
money upgrading it to Euro 4 compliance, it's
remained on sale here in North America as a com-
pletely unique model, hitting all the superlatives, as
the largest-capacity motorcycle in the global market-
place with more cubes as well as the most torque of
any two-wheeler, I.C.E.-powered or electric.
But now Triumph has gone large by creating an
all-new successor to the Rocket III—make that suc-
BY ALAN CATHCART
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KINGDOM
GT on the right,
R on the left.
Both represent
a new era for
Triumph in maxi-
cruisers.
TRIUMPH
BEAST
WHEN YOU'VE GOT THE
MOTORCYCLE IN THE WORLD,
YOU'RE TRIUMPH, YOU
