Hello, good morning and welcome to Front End Chatter E90, Britain’s most least favourite biking podcast, veritably triggered by www.bikesocial.co.uk, the world’s biking on the web, and Bennetts, the bike and travel insurance specialists. And this fortnight we have, for you aural delectation, spoken words on: RACING

• MotoGP is back, at Qatar where Miller’s seat comes off, Mav goes backwards, Rossi goes forwards, Marquez and Dovizioso repeat last season’s last lap, and Ducati plot a spoiler
• why MotoE isn’t coming to a short circuit near you soon
• Dave Bautista keeps on winning in WSB, but it’s not Ducati’s fault…
• … so no pressure in BSB then, Scott…

 

BIKES

• first ride on Moto Guzzi’s new V85 TT ‘classic enduro’

 

PLUS!

• do business biking miles count as much as personal biking miles?
• more hi-viz pros and cons
• trail braking explained properly
• the great seat height debate, and how to make bikes fit more people more of the time
• more ideas on getting kids into bikes – and were 125s better in the 1990s?
• which brands offer the best value for money?
• why are there no wheelies in bike magazines any more?

 

… plus much more rubbish, nonsense and stuff.

 

Thanks for listening!

• email your thoughts, questions and comments to anything@frontendchatter.com
• visit www.bikesocial.co.uk,
• get your insurance from Bennetts,
• book yourself on the FECtacular/FECstival on 13th August at Cadwell Park,
• follow @SimonHbikes and @Mufga on the Twitters, Instas etc

 

 

Hello, good morning and welcome to Front End Chatter E90, Britain’s most least favourite biking podcast, veritably triggered by www.bikesocial.co.uk, the world’s biking on the web, and Bennetts, the bike and travel insurance specialists. And this fortnight we have, for you aural delectation, spoken words on: RACING

• MotoGP is back, at Qatar where Miller’s seat comes off, Mav goes backwards, Rossi goes forwards, Marquez and Dovizioso repeat last season’s last lap, and Ducati plot a spoiler
• why MotoE isn’t coming to a short circuit near you soon
• Dave Bautista keeps on winning in WSB, but it’s not Ducati’s fault…
• … so no pressure in BSB then, Scott…

 

BIKES

• first ride on Moto Guzzi’s new V85 TT ‘classic enduro’

 

PLUS!

• do business biking miles count as much as personal biking miles?
• more hi-viz pros and cons
• trail braking explained properly
• the great seat height debate, and how to make bikes fit more people more of the time
• more ideas on getting kids into bikes – and were 125s better in the 1990s?
• which brands offer the best value for money?
• why are there no wheelies in bike magazines any more?

 

… plus much more rubbish, nonsense and stuff.

 

Thanks for listening!

• email your thoughts, questions and comments to anything@frontendchatter.com
• visit www.bikesocial.co.uk,
• get your insurance from Bennetts,
• book yourself on the FECtacular/FECstival on 13th August at Cadwell Park,
• follow @SimonHbikes and @Mufga on the Twitters, Instas etc

 

 

Hello and welcome to Episode 89 of Front End Chatter, Britain’s most insured motorcycling podcast delivered fresh to your ears by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons – enabled by the humanoids at www.bikesocial.co.uk and supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists. This week we’re chattering about:

• Andrea Iannone’s smelly secretions
• Jonathon Rea’s Book Of Excuses
• first ride of KTM’s new 790 Adventure and Adventure R
• how practical and fun is Enfield’s Interceptor?
• which bike can renew the sense of fun in your biking
• is £200 for a one-piece leather race suit on Ebay worth buying?
• should we feel guilty about NOT riding our bikes much?
• what’s the best non-sportsbike for track days?
• does Fairy Liquid work as an anti-misting visor coating?
• how to find the right people with whom to tour Europe
• …and much much more…

 Thank you once more for listening to out nonsense, and contributing with your thoughts, queries and opinions: email

 anything@frontendchatter.com Please add August 13th to your diary, when Front End Chatter will be recorded LIVE! at a BIkeSocial Bennetts track day at Cadwell Park! More info at www.superbikeschool.co.uk Simon H and Martin are on Twitter:

@SimonHbikes

@Mufga

…and you can also fund us on various other social media platforms…

 

Hello and welcome to Episode 89 of Front End Chatter, Britain’s most insured motorcycling podcast delivered fresh to your ears by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons – enabled by the humanoids at www.bikesocial.co.uk and supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists. This week we’re chattering about:

• Andrea Iannone’s smelly secretions
• Jonathon Rea’s Book Of Excuses
• first ride of KTM’s new 790 Adventure and Adventure R
• how practical and fun is Enfield’s Interceptor?
• which bike can renew the sense of fun in your biking
• is £200 for a one-piece leather race suit on Ebay worth buying?
• should we feel guilty about NOT riding our bikes much?
• what’s the best non-sportsbike for track days?
• does Fairy Liquid work as an anti-misting visor coating?
• how to find the right people with whom to tour Europe
• …and much much more…

 Thank you once more for listening to out nonsense, and contributing with your thoughts, queries and opinions: email

 anything@frontendchatter.com Please add August 13th to your diary, when Front End Chatter will be recorded LIVE! at a BIkeSocial Bennetts track day at Cadwell Park! More info at www.superbikeschool.co.uk Simon H and Martin are on Twitter:

@SimonHbikes

@Mufga

…and you can also fund us on various other social media platforms…

 

Hellooo and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s most homoerotic motorcycling podcast, supported and empowered by www.bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists.

And for your aural delectation this week we have gossip on:

• Andrew Iannone’s jawline
• Maverick Marquez and his pants
• Dave Bautista’s Rea-beating form at Phillip Island
• the perfect Franken-racer
• unfeasible plum-o-meters in the BSB paddock
• why is bike gear so expensive?
• what bike did Nev buy? And is a BMW R1250RS better than a Z1000SX?
• how do we know when not ride a bike but take the car instead?
• tips for touring in Alaska
• why there are no exotic small-bore race replicas and how to get more young riders on bikes
• and much, much more (but definitely no chat about motorcycle magazines; well, a bit…)
• …plus! Super-really-very-exciting news of the 100th episode FECstravaganza at… Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire, Tuesday August 13th; a Bennetts/BikeSocial/California Superbike track day – and at which we’ll be recording FEC’s centenary episode in front of an eager audience of grass and air. You’re welcome to sign up to the track day, or just come along and have a listen… more details of the 100th episode FECstravaganza in the next FEC!

 

Meanwhile, thanks for listening and supporting what we do, keep the emails coming to anything @frontendchatter.com – don’t listen to Mufga, you write what you want to write – and catch us both on Twitter: @SimonHbikes & @Mufga, and on Insta/FB/the usual. Love and rockets

 

 

 

Hellooo and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s most homoerotic motorcycling podcast, supported and empowered by www.bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists.

And for your aural delectation this week we have gossip on:

• Andrew Iannone’s jawline
• Maverick Marquez and his pants
• Dave Bautista’s Rea-beating form at Phillip Island
• the perfect Franken-racer
• unfeasible plum-o-meters in the BSB paddock
• why is bike gear so expensive?
• what bike did Nev buy? And is a BMW R1250RS better than a Z1000SX?
• how do we know when not ride a bike but take the car instead?
• tips for touring in Alaska
• why there are no exotic small-bore race replicas and how to get more young riders on bikes
• and much, much more (but definitely no chat about motorcycle magazines; well, a bit…)
• …plus! Super-really-very-exciting news of the 100th episode FECstravaganza at… Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire, Tuesday August 13th; a Bennetts/BikeSocial/California Superbike track day – and at which we’ll be recording FEC’s centenary episode in front of an eager audience of grass and air. You’re welcome to sign up to the track day, or just come along and have a listen… more details of the 100th episode FECstravaganza in the next FEC!

 

Meanwhile, thanks for listening and supporting what we do, keep the emails coming to anything @frontendchatter.com – don’t listen to Mufga, you write what you want to write – and catch us both on Twitter: @SimonHbikes & @Mufga, and on Insta/FB/the usual. Love and rockets

 

 

 

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 87 #Remy Gardner… it’s only just occurred to me, but what kind of name is Remy? Is he named after a cognac or something? Anyway, welcome, one and all, to surreal bantz supported, enabled and triggered by the meaty skinbags at www.bikesocial.co.uk – the best resource for all things motorcycling on the interwebs – and under the munificent auspices of Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists. This week we have:

• why Suzuki Hayabusa mirrors remind Simon of Rosa Klebb’s shoes • a timely review of the 2002 Assen MotoGP, back in the days when races could be won by a two-stroke or a four-stroke, and when one four-stroke in particular appeared to be so much faster than the others it was like cheating…
• …and how a last lap manoeuvre foreshadowed a more notorious coming-together 13 years later…
• a mini-review of the new Honda CBR650R and CB650R and is it a ‘new’ CBR600F? And how does the CB compare to a KTM 790 Duke?
• …and why does no-one makes a Dakar replica?
• effective anti-rain visor solutions
• why do we wear the kit we wear?
• more on police/scooter tactics
• an inverse game of ‘what bike should I buy?’, with ‘what bike have I bought?’
• have some bike magazines may have lost their sense of humour, and is there a correlation with the demise of sportsbikes?
• …and much more natter chatter…

…and if you’re interested in attending a FECstravaganza in August in Lincolnshire, let us know! Many many thanks for listening, please continue to download FEC from www.bikesocial.co.uk. Email your thoughts, queries, questions, observations and comments to:

 

anything@frontendchatter

 

….and catch us on Twitter

 

@SimonHbikes

@Mufga

 

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 87 #Remy Gardner… it’s only just occurred to me, but what kind of name is Remy? Is he named after a cognac or something? Anyway, welcome, one and all, to surreal bantz supported, enabled and triggered by the meaty skinbags at www.bikesocial.co.uk – the best resource for all things motorcycling on the interwebs – and under the munificent auspices of Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists. This week we have:

• why Suzuki Hayabusa mirrors remind Simon of Rosa Klebb’s shoes • a timely review of the 2002 Assen MotoGP, back in the days when races could be won by a two-stroke or a four-stroke, and when one four-stroke in particular appeared to be so much faster than the others it was like cheating…
• …and how a last lap manoeuvre foreshadowed a more notorious coming-together 13 years later…
• a mini-review of the new Honda CBR650R and CB650R and is it a ‘new’ CBR600F? And how does the CB compare to a KTM 790 Duke?
• …and why does no-one makes a Dakar replica?
• effective anti-rain visor solutions
• why do we wear the kit we wear?
• more on police/scooter tactics
• an inverse game of ‘what bike should I buy?’, with ‘what bike have I bought?’
• have some bike magazines may have lost their sense of humour, and is there a correlation with the demise of sportsbikes?
• …and much more natter chatter…

…and if you’re interested in attending a FECstravaganza in August in Lincolnshire, let us know! Many many thanks for listening, please continue to download FEC from www.bikesocial.co.uk. Email your thoughts, queries, questions, observations and comments to:

 

anything@frontendchatter

 

….and catch us on Twitter

 

@SimonHbikes

@Mufga

 

Happy New… oh, is too late for that? Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s most enduring motorcycling podcast (much to chagrin of Les343) presented by me, Simon Hargreaves and him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and supported by the humanoids at www.bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance people.

 

And this month, FEC sinks its teeth into:

• the Greatest Grand Prix Of All Time, aka the 1990 Australian 500cc Grand Prix, feat. Sir Mick of Doohan, Lord Wayne de Rainey, Baron von Gardner and the Marquis of Schwantz going at it hammer, tongs and forceps • the 125cc side-spectacle of Hans Spaan aiming a punch at Fausto Gresini and Loris Capirossi winning his first world title
• the year of 2019 in review, as FEC jumps into the Chatter Tardis and zooms 12 months into the future – including the best bike of 2019, the Brit GP from Donington, and some shocking new Suzuki news – yes, you read that right
• a deep dive into the FECsack with contributions on topics as varied as
• buying used instead of a new bike on PCP,
• the mechanics of trail braking and why it’s a good (and bad) idea,
• how tightly controlled the Triumph 765-powered Moto2 series will be,
• the reliability of KTM electrics,
• how odd is it that Marc Marquez’ dad is STILL hanging around his pit box,
• bike community garages in the US,
• a FEC track day in August,
• how to make MotoE more of a spectacle by using an accountant from Bromley, • why is insurance so bloomin’ expensive?

Thanks for listening, please keep emailing your thoughts, ideas and questions to:

anything@frontendchatter.com Also remember to download this podcast from www.bikesocial.co.uk, and nip out and buy RiDE magazine! You can catch Simon and Martin on the Twitters: @SimonHBikes

@Mufga

Happy New… oh, is too late for that? Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s most enduring motorcycling podcast (much to chagrin of Les343) presented by me, Simon Hargreaves and him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and supported by the humanoids at www.bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance people.

 

And this month, FEC sinks its teeth into:

• the Greatest Grand Prix Of All Time, aka the 1990 Australian 500cc Grand Prix, feat. Sir Mick of Doohan, Lord Wayne de Rainey, Baron von Gardner and the Marquis of Schwantz going at it hammer, tongs and forceps • the 125cc side-spectacle of Hans Spaan aiming a punch at Fausto Gresini and Loris Capirossi winning his first world title
• the year of 2019 in review, as FEC jumps into the Chatter Tardis and zooms 12 months into the future – including the best bike of 2019, the Brit GP from Donington, and some shocking new Suzuki news – yes, you read that right
• a deep dive into the FECsack with contributions on topics as varied as
• buying used instead of a new bike on PCP,
• the mechanics of trail braking and why it’s a good (and bad) idea,
• how tightly controlled the Triumph 765-powered Moto2 series will be,
• the reliability of KTM electrics,
• how odd is it that Marc Marquez’ dad is STILL hanging around his pit box,
• bike community garages in the US,
• a FEC track day in August,
• how to make MotoE more of a spectacle by using an accountant from Bromley, • why is insurance so bloomin’ expensive?

Thanks for listening, please keep emailing your thoughts, ideas and questions to:

anything@frontendchatter.com Also remember to download this podcast from www.bikesocial.co.uk, and nip out and buy RiDE magazine! You can catch Simon and Martin on the Twitters: @SimonHBikes

@Mufga