Triumph has announced that the Rocket X limited edition cruiser will be launched in India very soon. The Rocket X was unveiled last year at the EICMA Motorcycle Show in Milan, to commemorate a decade of the Rocket III’s dominance as the world’s largest-capacity mass production motorcycle.
The Rocket X is basically a highly customised version of the Rocket III cruiser, which has been dressed up in a bespoke high-gloss custom paint scheme with ‘grind’ effect stripes designed by custom paint specialists, 8-Ball. The Rocket X also gets black-garnished exhaust, handlebars, and mirrors to match the cruiser’s paint work, while the five-spoke alloy wheels get a special black finish with silver pinstripes.
Globally, the Rocket X has been produced in a limited run of just 500 units, of which just eight units have been imported to India. Each motorcycle gets a limited edition badging on the side panel along with a unique numbering indicating its serial number among the 500 models of its kind.
Mechanically, the Rocket X is identical to the standard motorcycle, and comes with the same 2,294cc inline three-cylinder engine which packs 221Nm of torque. With prices for the standard Rocket III Roadster starting at Rs 22.56 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi), we can easily expect the Rocket X to retail at a price tag north of the Rs 25 lakh mark. It will rival other cruisers like the Moto Guzzi California, Harley-Davidson V Rod and the Indian Chief Classic.
