Hello and welcome to Episode 163 of Front End Chatter, Britain's most flavoursome motorcyclistic podcast with Simon Fitz-Gibbons and Martin Hargreaves if you're listening in black & white. 

Front End Chatter is supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, and BikeSocial.co.uk, the best place on the web to keep up to speed with all things two wheels (and don't forget the Bennetts' YouTube channel wot has tons of good stuff on it). 

And on this week's FEC we have: 

• testing jackets for RiDE magazine on the hottest day EVER 
• the splendour of a Bennetts' track day at Cadwell on an SV650
• World Supers from Donington
• running over cats and dead piglets
• does MotoGP visit democratic countries? 
• why boots squeak and how to fix it
• how much better is a Tracer 9 GT than a Tracer 900 GT?
• should we experiment with cornering ABS?

All this and much more, or less, depends on your point of view and the orientation of your ears. 

Thanks to everyone for listening, please keep your emails coming in to anything@frontendchatter and see you soon!

@simonhbikes
@mufga

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Episode 162 of the long-running family of motorcycling podcasts featuring wayward sons Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons (combined motorcycle journalism age: 50+, combined mental age: -50), supported like a pair of workshy fops by the patriarchal benevolence of Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists and bikesocial.co.uk, the place on t'internet to get all your bike info. 

And on this week's FEC we have: 
• when does riding off-road stop being fun?
• Peco Bagnaia done for drink-driving and sticking his car in a ditch
• Suzuki cease World Endurance support as well as MotoGP – is it the beginning of the end? 
• detail on Ducati's V21L MotoE race bike (which exists and be ridden) and Triumph's TE-1 prototype (which exists but won't)
• bolt-ons that make you ride like an idiot
All this an much more... 

Thanks everyone for listening, please send your thoughts, feelings, emotive pleas and questions to:
anything@frontendchatter.com

Get us on Twitter and Insta:
@SimonHbikes
@Mufga

Welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s favourite biking and egg-throwing podcast, presented by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, and supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, and bikesocial.co.uk, the best and most complete motorcycling website on the, er, web.

On episode 161 of FEC:

• When is a MotoGP crash a mistake and when is it reckless riding, and what’s the difference?
• what is a Maeving RM1 and are friends electric?
  • Mufga puts his best foot forward at the Royal Enfield Slide School
• RIP Steve Harris, one third of Harris Performance
• How much power is too much, and what does too much feel like?
• How do we ride with people who are slower than us, and is it ok to get a bit frustrated sometimes?
• Is a slow, safe rider a ‘better’ rider than a quicker but riskier rider?

All this and much more, including pillow-fighting.

Thanks for your ears, please spread the good word (and the bad ones), and get us on the socials:

@SimonHbikes

@Mufga