Hello and go away to Front End Chatter, the UK’s most motorcycling podcast featuring aural nonsense from Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves. This is episode 145, supported and nourished by Bennetts Bike Social; so much more than just bike – and now car – insurance: check out their website to discover the multifarious munificent benefits of membership. And, if you’re at all interested in Yamaha’s Tracer 9 GT v Triumph’s Tiger 900 GT Pro v BMW’s F900XR v Kawasaki’s Versys 1000 SE GT, check out the road test video at https://youtu.be/C5SJO6trgz8
Anyway, on this week’s moany, miserable-ass FEC we have:
- on-the-scenes goss from the British MotoGP at Silverstone, including why Mufga loved being there on Saturday and Simon hated it
- Dorna’s race feed going down just before the race
- Marquez crashing out *again* and why he’s the crashingiest rider this season
- Aprilia’s... we can’t call it a resurrection so let’s just call it an erection...
- WSB gets a mention with some fab racing from Magny Cours – and some scandalous losing
- more new bikes from Triumph with a teaser for the all-new Tiger 1200 and leaked shots of the new Speed Triple RR
- ...and the new Moto Guzzi V100 – all-new water-cooled engine, with fins, with fairly *interesting* looks...
Plus the FEC sack, including:
- changing pads to change braking character
- re-setting the quickshifter on an S1000XR
- a touching story about becoming emotionally attached to items of bike clothing
- when is a tubeless tyre not a tubeless tyre? Answers please, because we don’t know...
And much, much more – including more info on the first, and perhaps only, FEC Tour coming in May 2022...
Thank you for listening, please keep your questions and thoughts coming in to:
[email protected]
And get us on the socials:
@SimonHBikes
@Mufga