The Triumph Rocket III is a three cylinder motorcycle made by Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. At 2,294 cc (140.0 cu in) it had the largest displacement engine of any mass production motorcycle, as of September 2010.
The name "Rocket III" is derived from a previous BSA motorcycle, the 1968 Rocket-3, which was a BSA version of the similar Triumph Trident.
Famous quotes containing the words triumph, rocket and/or iii:
“My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile;
Death his deaths wound shall then receive, & stoop
*nglorious, of his mortall sting disarm’d.
I through the ample Air in Triumph high
Shall lead Hell Captive maugre Hell, and show
The powers of darkness bound. Thou at the sight
Pleas’d, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)