I dunno, you wait ages for an episode of Front End Chatter, and then two come along at once. Welcome to FEC#42, which is (almost) solely devoted to reading your emails and answering your questions on subjects as wide-ranging as:• riding the B500 in The Black Forest Gateaux, a nice road in Croatia, and what’s the best off-road bike for a father and son (like we’d know)

• why a 2 x British world champ is doing a bit of half-naked Turkish oil wrestling on TV but isn’t coming across as a nob

• choosing between a BMW R1200RT and a Suzuki GSX1250FA• whether a Honda VFR400 handles better than a Ducati 748 – or a modern sportsbike • on-bike tracking systems for £13• how the risk of riding a bike could put you off riding altogether• what bike manufacturers get from racing• why F1 cars blow up more than MotoGP bikes 

Plus, a bit more natter about Circuit Of Wales wrangles and other bits and bobs. Please don’t make me listen to it again just to fill this bit out. Thanks for downloading, please leave a review on iTunes and/or subscribe, and join in with Front End Chatter on Facebook, or on Twitter: @SimonHbikes and @MufgaYou can also visit www.frontendchatter.com, follow the links and purchase T-shirts, key-rings, mugs and mouse mats. 

 

I dunno, you wait ages for an episode of Front End Chatter, and then two come along at once. 

Welcome to FEC#42, which is (almost) solely devoted to reading your emails and answering your questions on subjects as wide-ranging as:

• riding the B500 in The Black Forest Gateaux, a nice road in Croatia, and what’s the best off-road bike for a father and son (like we’d know)

• why a 2 x British world champ is doing a bit of half-naked Turkish oil wrestling on TV but isn’t coming across as a nob

• choosing between a BMW R1200RT and a Suzuki GSX1250FA

• whether a Honda VFR400 handles better than a Ducati 748 – or a modern sportsbike 

• on-bike tracking systems for £13

• how the risk of riding a bike could put you off riding altogether

• what bike manufacturers get from racing

• why F1 cars blow up more than MotoGP bikes 

Plus, a bit more natter about Circuit Of Wales wrangles and other bits and bobs. Please don’t make me listen to it again just to fill this bit out. 

Thanks for downloading, please leave a review on iTunes and/or subscribe, and join in with Front End Chatter on Facebook, or on Twitter: @SimonHbikes and @Mufga

You can also visit www.frontendchatter.com, follow the links and purchase T-shirts, key-rings, mugs and mouse mats. 

 

We’re back! After a prolonged absence, which we find is the best kind, Front End Chatter returns with post-Argentina MotoGP gossip – and, let’s face it, it had the lot: tyres, crashes, more tyres, boo-ing, early silly season, and some highly ill-informed nonsense about reverse-spinning cranks. 

Plus, Martin (him) and Simon (me) natter about some new bikes we’ve ridden, and where you can read about them. Ish. 

Thanks for listening, and thanks for remembering we exist. The next episode will be along shortly. 

x

We’re back! After a prolonged absence, which we find is the best kind, Front End Chatter returns with post-Argentina MotoGP gossip – and, let’s face it, it had the lot: tyres, crashes, more tyres, boo-ing, early silly season, and some highly ill-informed nonsense about reverse-spinning cranks. Plus, Martin (him) and Simon (me) natter about some new bikes we’ve ridden, and where you can read about them. Ish. Thanks for listening, and thanks for remembering we exist. The next episode will be along shortly. x

Episode 40 of Front End Chatter, the Finger On The Pulse episode, comes not so much hot as slightly tepid with gossip from MotoGP testing (at Sepang, Malaysia, not Phillip Island). Fortunately, the big issues are still the same: will Casey race in 2016? Will the new Michelin tyres and retro-spec ECU mix results up this season? Will Lorenzo win the title by mid-season? When will someone first say ‘silly season’? 

There’s also plenty of FEC-ing tittle-tattle about:

• Guy Martin’s no-show at the TT this year
• Triumph’s new Tiger 1050 Sport
• 6000 houses created at the Circuit Of Wales site. Sorry, we meant ‘6000 jobs’
• why splitting WSB races over two days might be a good idea
• why manufacturers don’t make more of their Dakar race success
• reviving the Transatlantic race series – good idea or not? And are any American racers good enough? Or Brits, come to that
• are anti-theft bike tracking systems a good idea or a bit ‘after the fact’?
• does a near-miss take the shine off biking?
• is it okay to still like being a biker, but go off actually riding bikes?
• choosing between a Suzuki Bandit 1250 (too old school?), Kawasaki Versys 650 (too tame?) or a Yamaha Tracer (too expensive) for hustling mountain roads, touring and commuting. Or just pick a Yamaha FZ1 Fazer.
  • what are the best tyres for a Yamaha XJ6?
• choosing the fabulous FEC theme tune. 

Please email questions, comments and/or abuse to: anything@frontendchatter.com

Twitter us at: @SimonHbikes & @Mufga

Facebook: www.facebook.com/FrontEndChatter

YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeS_FcXLqwZgirmG2OCW0w

Please visit support FEC and visit our shop for T-shirts and mugs: www.tshirtstudio.com/marketplace/front-end-chatter

Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/front-end-chatter/id827471484

We’re also on Android podcast apps.
 
Thanks for listening! Keep watching for new episodes (and sorry they’re so sporadic etc).

Simon & Martin

 

Episode 40 of Front End Chatter, the Finger On The Pulse episode, comes not so much hot as slightly tepid with gossip from MotoGP testing (at Sepang, Malaysia, not Phillip Island). Fortunately, the big issues are still the same: will Casey race in 2016? Will the new Michelin tyres and retro-spec ECU mix results up this season? Will Lorenzo win the title by mid-season? When will someone first say ‘silly season’? 

There’s also plenty of FEC-ing tittle-tattle about:

• Guy Martin’s no-show at the TT this year
• Triumph’s new Tiger 1050 Sport
• 6000 houses created at the Circuit Of Wales site. Sorry, we meant ‘6000 jobs’
• why splitting WSB races over two days might be a good idea
• why manufacturers don’t make more of their Dakar race success
• reviving the Transatlantic race series – good idea or not? And are any American racers good enough? Or Brits, come to that
• are anti-theft bike tracking systems a good idea or a bit ‘after the fact’?
• does a near-miss take the shine off biking?
• is it okay to still like being a biker, but go off actually riding bikes?
• choosing between a Suzuki Bandit 1250 (too old school?), Kawasaki Versys 650 (too tame?) or a Yamaha Tracer (too expensive) for hustling mountain roads, touring and commuting. Or just pick a Yamaha FZ1 Fazer. • what are the best tyres for a Yamaha XJ6?
• choosing the fabulous FEC theme tune. 

Please email questions, comments and/or abuse to: anything@frontendchatter.com Twitter us at: @SimonHbikes & @Mufga Facebook: www.facebook.com/FrontEndChatter YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeS_FcXLqwZgirmG2OCW0w Please visit support FEC and visit our shop for T-shirts and mugs: www.tshirtstudio.com/marketplace/front-end-chatter Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/front-end-chatter/id827471484

We’re also on Android podcast apps. Thanks for listening! Keep watching for new episodes (and sorry they’re so sporadic etc).Simon & Martin

 

HelloAndWelcomeToEpisode39OfBritain’sFavouriteBikingPodcast! And breathe…

In the first FEC of 2016, Simon and Martin discuss:

– The Dakar Rally, who’s winning, who isn’t, and who’s paying any attention?

– All the new rules for MotoGP, whether we can predict anything before anything has happened, and whether that feller who said he doesn’t want to race again will, in fact, race again.

– What’s going on with WSB’s barely comprehensible new format, and whether it will detract from what otherwise has the potential to be a pretty great year.

– Who in the BSB paddock recently failed a drugs test, who will be making a welcome return to the BSB paddock, and who in the BSB paddock has just made a pretty dramatic career change.

– Plus loads and loads (and loads) of your emails frantically read, mumbled, debated and, in a few cases, answered.

It’s a busy one…

Email us: anything@frontendchatter.com
Twitter: @SimonHbikes and @Mufga
Facebook: www.facebook.com/FrontEndChatter
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeS_FcXLqwZgirmG2OCW0w
FEC shop: www.tshirtstudio.com/marketplace/front-end-chatter
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/front-end-chatter/id827471484

 

 

HelloAndWelcomeToEpisode39OfBritain’sFavouriteBikingPodcast! And breathe…

In the first FEC of 2016, Simon and Martin discuss:

– The Dakar Rally, who’s winning, who isn’t, and who’s paying any attention?

– All the new rules for MotoGP, whether we can predict anything before anything has happened, and whether that feller who said he doesn’t want to race again will, in fact, race again.

– What’s going on with WSB’s barely comprehensible new format, and whether it will detract from what otherwise has the potential to be a pretty great year.

– Who in the BSB paddock recently failed a drugs test, who will be making a welcome return to the BSB paddock, and who in the BSB paddock has just made a pretty dramatic career change.

– Plus loads and loads (and loads) of your emails frantically read, mumbled, debated and, in a few cases, answered.

It’s a busy one…

Email us: anything@frontendchatter.comTwitter: @SimonHbikes and @MufgaFacebook: www.facebook.com/FrontEndChatterYouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeS_FcXLqwZgirmG2OCW0wFEC shop: www.tshirtstudio.com/marketplace/front-end-chatteriTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/front-end-chatter/id827471484

 

 

Front End Chatter E38 looks back at 2015: the best bikes, the best races, the best racers, the biggest losers, and Martin and Simon’s personal fave moments – plus the absence of British world champs on BBC Sports Personality Of The Year and FEC’s New Year Resolutions.

Have a merry Christmas, you FECers!

 

Thanks for listening, and please get on touch on email: 
anything@frontendchatter.com 
or Twitter: 
@Mufga
@SimonHbikes 

…and try our Youtube channel!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeS_FcXLqwZgirmG2OCW0w/videos

Front End Chatter E38 looks back at 2015: the best bikes, the best races, the best racers, the biggest losers, and Martin and Simon’s personal fave moments – plus the absence of British world champs on BBC Sports Personality Of The Year and FEC’s New Year Resolutions.

Have a merry Christmas, you FECers!

 

Thanks for listening, and please get on touch on email: anything@frontendchatter.com or Twitter: @Mufga@SimonHbikes 

…and try our Youtube channel!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeS_FcXLqwZgirmG2OCW0w/videos