Hello and welcome to episode 170 of Front End Chatter, the UK's finest motorcycling podcast with Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons (other finest motorcycling podcasts without Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons are available).

FEC is, as ever thus far, supported and ported by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, and BikeSocial.co.uk, the greatest motorcycling website on the, er, web. 

And on this episode, we natter about: 
• birthdays, and why BMW are celebrating theirs like a death in the family
• prices for Suzuki's GSX-8S and P-Strom, and why maths isn't their strong point
• KTM's spy-shotted RC990, and possible the origins of its motor
• last chance for an exclusive place to the FEC tour 2023 (It's Grin (and indeed, Gin) Up North) before we spread the love on the internet
• our memories of ex-motorcycle journo John Cantlie
• plus loads of next bike recommendations, too late as usual but no-one ever does what we suggest anyway

Thank you for your listening ears throughout 2022, and 'ears to a similarly audible 2023. 

Please keep your thoughts, ponderings, musings and questions coming to anything@frontendchatter.com

@SimonHBikes
@Mufga
 

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's best biking podcast even if we – 'we' being Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, a pair of motorcycling ne'er-do-wells who once had an opinion and now just have onions – do say so ourselves, which is just as well because no-one else does. 

Front End Chatter is as ever supported like a great surgical truss of benevolence by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, and their media empire of bikesocial.co.uk, upon which one can find all the news, reviews, new bike and consumer tests one could wish for. And check out their YouTube channel too. 

On this esipode of Fnet Rund Chasser we have, for your aural delectation: 
• a bit of goss from that Motorcycle Live they had recently
• a thoroughly in-depth chat about Honda's new CB750 Hornet
• why World Superbike will be worth watching in 2023
• the return of KTM's 790 Duke and Adventure, only made in China and as we predicted ages ago
• details of the FEC Tour 2023 – It's Grin Up North! 
• plus a stack of your emails from the FECsack

Thank you for listening, and please keep your thoughts, queries and ponderings coming to: 
anything@frontendchatter.com

@SimonHbikes
@Mufga