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DOCTOR NO

IT WAS going to be called The Meteor.

That would have been unfortunate — Royal Enfield, of course, released a model of that name soon after the ideas for this bike were being bounced around.

“We realised that we’d have to come up with something else. It was still going to be pretty much the same bike you see here,” says Lincoln Smart, owner of both Albury’s Fast Fuel Motorcycles.

Albury is the town on the New South Wales–Victoria border and although it was technically bypassed by a freeway some years back, it’s still a very busy place —

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