this is the royal enfield meteor 350 and in this video i'm going to give you a full review and tell
you what to expect when looking at this motorcycle so this motorcycle starts at 3879 pounds um that's
in a red color and there's also a fireball yellow i believe it's called here i've got it
in supernova brown and that costs 4039 pounds i really like this color i think it's perhaps
you could say it's very classic classic looking
maybe more of a vintage style of color which goes with the bike very nicely
the meteor has a single cylinder 350cc air-cooled four-stroke engine it produces
20.2 brake horsepower at 6100 rpm and 27 newton meters of torque at 4000 rpm
um and no by no means is this bike powerful it certainly doesn't feel powerful but it's not
meant to be it's meant to be a gentleman's rider you go out for a sunday ride in the
beautiful countryside where i am now enjoy the ride enjoy how small and nimble it is you can
get down the country lanes easily not like a big massive heavy motorcycle it's so light you
can twist in and out and that makes it perfect on the twisty lanes and fantastic in the town
as well but if you do want to give it some it doesn't really have a lot of poke
hello you're right yeah i'm just filming a review of this uh
yeah in case you want anything oh that's funny no worries thank you yes uh it's uh it's a royal
enfield um it's the new meteor it's called um but they've lent it to me for a couple of weeks so
yeah it's really nice the meteor has a wheelbase of 1400 millimeters and a seat height of 765 now
i weigh no i don't weigh i i am six foot one and uh to be honest with you this bike feels
absolutely fine for someone of my height it might look a bit small but riding wise it feels
absolutely fine so if you are above six foot you won't have too much trouble riding this bike you
might look a bit like an ape on top of a monkey's back but it feels absolutely fine and that's the
main thing and if you are about five foot five this bike's probably the perfect size for you
the specs for this bike actually give a max speed which is not quite something that you normally see
and it does 70.8 miles per hour so as i said before it's not a quick bike
but it can do 70 miles an hour i haven't got it up to that
it's kind of especially if you're on a slight slope it's struggling at 50 60 but around the
narrow lanes you don't really want to go much faster than that so as i said it's perfect for
that and this is of course a2 compliant because it's under 47 horsepower so if you've just passed
your a2 test at 19 years old you can go straight out and buy this bike and not have to do anything
to it you don't have to restrict it it's fine as it is from the factory so if you're looking for a
step up from a one two five this would be a good option if you don't want anything too powerful
the meteor only weighs 191 kilos that's in running order so with all your petrol and lubricants in it
and it really is light and it feels light especially around the corners
it's very confidence inspiring the way you can just throw it in it doesn't feel twitchy at all
but it goes exactly where you tell it to and that's what i love about this bike
the gearbox in the meteor is a five-speed manual gearbox with a conventional clutch
which is very easy to use but the shifters so you've got a heel shifter as well as a toe shifter
i like the addition of the heel shifter i think it's easy to use it's quite enjoyable but
the angle of the toe shifter means that i can't actually get my toe underneath it to shift up
not very easily anyway so i kind of have to use the heel shifter
whereas i'd rather kind of have the option to use both but that's not really a major issue
you can just switch direction so easily it's unbelievable but it's not in
any way twitching which a lot of the time with bikes that are very
quick to maneuver they're a bit twitchy but this isn't stable at speed as well so it's fantastic
the petrol tank is a 15 litre classic teardrop petrol tank um i don't really
understand how it's got more liters in it than my harley because my harley tank looks bigger
so that's remarkable and the miles per gallon figures are astonishing 101.25
miles per gallon that is incredible um and even with not even a full tank it's
telling me i've got over 300 miles range and that's just unbelievable you could go
so far on one tank of petrol it really will cost you nothing to ride this bike
you've got a single disc brake on the front and the rear stopping power is plenty good enough and
you've got telescopic forks on the front and a dual tube emulsion shock absorber on the rear with
six step adjustable preload so you really can get this bike just right for your weight and if you're
carrying a passenger you can get that setting just right for you the display on the royal enfield
is a mixture of digital display and an analog so you've got analog speedo and then in the middle
it kind of tells you how much petrol you've got what gear in how many miles you've got i've got
sort of three quarters of tank and it's saying i've got 387 miles range that's unbelievable i
really can't get my head around that and you've also got this other little screen on the right
which tells you the time i'm sure you can probably get it to tell you something else but i'm not sure
and when you turn it on it said it was built with google so i think google have designed that screen
now this bike comes in so many different colors that i can't even remember them off the top of
my head so i'm going to use my trusty old device to show me all the colors so you can get supernova
blue supernova brown which i've got it in here you've got stella red i light the beer you've also
got stella blue stellar black fireball red and fireball yellow the fireball colors are kind of
the plainest ones with a kind of graphic rather than a badge and they're the cheapest as well
the meteor comes with a rear seat and pegs as standard and this little backrest so
if you do want to take a passenger you've got that capability i think if you have a passenger
on the back and you're going up a steep hill it might be a bit of a struggle but it's nice
to know that if you need to have someone pop on the back that it is possible the mirrors
are very good i can see pretty much all of the road behind me so no issues there
and this windshield that comes as standard it's very nice it works but i found that at around 50
60 miles an hour i get a little bit of buffeting on my head so that might be to my height if you're
a little bit shorter it's probably all right it's because i find if i duck down i'm fine but
as as of my height a little bit of buffeting which is slightly annoying but not a major issue
now that little screen that i was on about earlier is actually the tripper navigator as they call it
it's designed by google and all you have to do is download the royal enfield app
connect it via bluetooth to your bike and you can use it as a sat nav to tell you where you
need to go which is fantastic it means you don't need to have a mount to put your phone
on and then worry if your phone's going to fall off it's much easier built in looks fantastic
nice and small so it's not sort of getting in the way and the design of it's very pretty
so that is an absolutely fantastic feature to film do you keep coming up here
hey how are you doing so the wheels you've got a 19-inch front wheel and a 17-inch rear
these wheels look very nice actually they remind me slightly of the wheels from the
harley-davidson iron with the sort of the black alloy with the little bit of
silver chrome down the middle it's very nice looking wheel so no issues there
so
now on lanes like this 20 horsepower
plenty enough you've got to account for the fact that there's you know traffic there's horses
you just don't really have the opportunity to go fast so you don't need any more power
and it's perfect for traveling along and you can go hundreds of miles without needing to
fill it up it's brilliant so in conclusion what do i think of the royal enfield meteor
i think it's a fantastic little bike it's nice and nimble it's easy to ride and if you are coming
for your first a2 license compatible bike this would be fantastic it's an easy place to start
if you don't want too much power it's not going to kill you at all it's got very gentle riding
and around the country lanes it's perfect around the town it's perfect
so even if you are maybe slightly older and you want something as a second bike to plod
around on this is also a perfect option so really i'm impressed with this bike and
i'd certainly buy one myself if i was looking for a small capacity enjoyable lightweight bike
i think this bike is beautifully designed much like all the other royal enfields they are some
absolutely stunning motorcycles and we're going to have plenty more royal enfield videos coming
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