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Meteor 350

When I rode the Meteor 350 at its launch, I liked it a lot but I wasn’t keen on the lack of top end performance or the heel and toe forward gearshift that took me a while to get used to. Fast-forward six months and I’m trying another Meteor, this one on very different roads. Instead of smooth Cotswold tarmac and idyllic little villages, there’s bumpy, wide Cornish highways and insanely twisty coastal tracks. The gearshift is now better positioned, and with a few thousand miles on the clock, the Dorothy’s Speed Shop Meteor is an altogether more usable motorcycle. It’s comfier with

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