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Front End Chatter

Front End Chatter

Von: Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons
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  • Front End Chatter #224

    Front End Chatter #224
    Aug 3 2026
    Hello, welcome everyone and eyes down for The Big FEC Quiz Of The Year! For the first time in 224 episodes of semi-popular pontification, rarely informed speculation and increasingly elaborate two-wheeled tangents, him Simon Hargreaves and him Martin Fitz-Gibbons finally stop pretending to know all the answers… and start asking the questions instead. Recorded live during the splendidly spectacular 'Moors The Merrier' tour of Yorkshire and the Pennines, organised with forensic fastidiousness by the lovely Paul, Jo and Ollie at MCi Tours (mcitours.com), you're in for an hour of motorcycle-themed pub-quiz-style nerdery, audience participation, healthy competitiveness, unhealthy pedantry and the occasional outbreak of actual knowledge. So sharpen your pencil, put down your phone, keep your own score (no cheating at the back), and see whether you know your six-axis IMU from your elbow. Questions range from the swinging sixties right through to the latest motorcycling movers and shakers, from technological firsts to racing record breakers, celebrating all manner of obscure biking trivia that ought to be more useful than it actually is. And if you're struggling with the question, 'Who should I get my bike insurance from?' then the correct answer is Bennetts, Britain's best bike insurer. If your policy is up for renewal soon then be sure to get a quote direct from bennetts.co.uk – and if it isn't, then be sure to enjoy all the delectably free-to-air content piled high at bikesocial.co.uk, on the BikeSocial YouTube channel, or at BikeSocial BikeClub (a place where people do actually know the answers to difficult questions). Back to the usual shtick next time – so until then please keep emailing all your thoughts, opinions, wonderings, ponderings and musings to anything@frontendchatter.com Thankyouloveyoubye
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    32 Min.
  • Front End Chatter #223

    Front End Chatter #223
    Jul 9 2026

    Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's most celebratory biking podcast, currently marking the historic 223rd anniversary of the moment Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons opened up a small family firm manufacturing essential podcast components. After the original Chatter Manors was flattened by an implausibly large quantity of pancakes falling from the sky, the burgeoning business was brought under state control by the good folk at Bennetts, Britain's best motorcycle insurance brokers. If your bike insurance is due soon get yourself a quote direct at bennetts.co.uk - and if it isn't, then head instead to bikesocial.co.uk for all manner of two-wheeled news and reviews. Oh, and don't forget to check out Bennetts BikeSocial on The YouTubes, where a brand new season of The Great Escape To The Country - sorry, What Bike Next? - will be dropping soon.

    Anyhow. In this episode Si & Mufga chatter all about:

    • Downsizing, and whether small bikes are the next big thing
    • Why Langen's Lightspeed is the polar inverse of BMW's R1300GS
    • Silently sneaking around the countryside on Stark's Varg EX
    • Screen (extenders) if you want to go faster
    • Whether bike security is a total waste of time
    • More grey import goodness
    • Endurance racing glory
    • and probably some other stuff too!

    It's a (relatively) tight one this, clocking in at just over an hour [Thank goodness - All]. Thank you, as always, for listening - and for the lucky few, we'll see you on FEC's 2026 The Moors The Merrier tour very soon!

    Until then, keep on sending your thoughts, wonderings and ponderings to anything@frontendchatter.com

    Mwah
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    1 Std. und 7 Min.
  • Front End Chatter #222

    Front End Chatter #222
    Jun 15 2026
    Hello and sorry and welcome to Front End Chatter, and episode 222 of the motorcycling podcast that may (or may not) owe you an apology. That grovelling worm is Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and that recalcitrant rascal is Simon Hargreaves. Having spent several months avoiding facing up to the monster they unwittingly (in both senses) created, they're back with two hours of unrehearsed waffle about all things biking. As always they'd like to atone for their two-wheeled transgressions to Bennetts, Britain's best motorcycle insurers, represented on the interwebs by both BikeSocial (bikesocial.co.uk) and BikeClub (bikeclub.bennetts.co.uk) – between them a bewilderingly big bonanza of motorcycling news, product reviews, used bike buying guides, industry expert advice and so much more. In this contrite (but alas not concise) episode of Britain's best biking podcast, Simon and Mufga discuss: •     Bikes for which manufacturers owe us an apology •     Riding a Manx Norton (ah) followed by a Norton Manx R – read more in Bike magazine •     BMW's R1300RS and Moto Guzzi's V100 Mandello S – read more in Bike magazine •     Touring to Spa on BMW's ludicrous M1000XR – read more in RiDE magazine •     How 'downgrading' tyres can improve a bike's ride and handling •     What went on at the 2026 Isle of Man TT •     Every biking engine layout, what they have in common, and which is best •     Whether speed limiters ruin sports-tourers •     The glory days of grey imports, and why they died out Thank you, one and all, for choosing to pour some Front End Chatter into your ears. Please keep sending your questions, thoughts, comments, wonderings and ponderings to anything@frontendchatter.com Until next time – whenever that may be...
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    2 Std.
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