It’s been an agonising four years, after riding around the world, trying to decide what to do with my Triumph Rocket X.
We tried a few mini adventures on it together around France and over the Pyrenees, but two up on a bike just didn’t get under Dalila’s skin in a way we had hoped. She just wasn’t comfortable with me in charge - can’t blame her really.
I rode it back to the UK from Lyon and showed it at a couple of motocycle events, but otherwise it hasn’t been very far. Paying for a garage and insurance in central Lyon just added to the problem.
And so, after removing the heavily scratched side panniers and top box, re-painting the exhausts and a few other bits, lowering the price I first thought of quite dramatically, I finally found someone who was happy to take on a high mileage, once around the world, Triumph Rocket X. (Numbered 190/500 for the record).
Guillaume Gsell is from just to the north of Lyon. He rode away with a big mile. I almost cried.
