Hello boys and girls, and welcome to Episode 197 of Front End Chatter, a motorcycling-themed podcast spoken out loud by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons, very much the Ying and Yang, the Ego and the Id, the – if you will – Laurel and Hardy of motorcycle journalism. 

We are supported as ever by our compadres Bennetts, Britain's best bike insurer (which I think we've basically established as fact, now) and bikesocial.co.uk, the most amazingly comprehensive motorcycling website on the, er, web. And not forgetting, as if we could, bikeclub.bennetts.co.uk – the place to speak your motorcycling brains. 

And on this episode of FEC we have: 
• exhaustive details of Ducati's new Multistrada
• extensive details of Kawasaki's new Versys 1100
• executive details of the recall notice for Kawasaki's Ninja hybrid
• exemplary details of Triumph's new Speed Twin 1200
• economic details of KTM's woes 
• plus your questions, queries, thoughts and musings from the FECSack – please send your missives and misgivings to: 
anything@frontendchatter.com and we'll get round to reading it out in six months' time. Probably. 

Thank you very much for watching and you can no longer reach us on Twitter because there is no more Twitter. But we're still on Instagram:
@SimonHBikes
@Mufga 

Hello friends and welcome to episode 196 of the long-running but desperately sporadic motorcycling podcast otherwise known as Front End Chatter, hosted by its own petards, Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves. 

As ever, we are mightily humbled to be supported and nourished by Bennetts, the UK's leading motorcycle insurer, and bikesocial.co.uk, where all your biking needs – and, indeed, nerds – are well met. 

And on this episode of FEC we chatter about: 
• the rise and rise of Chinese adventure bikes – Kove, Voge and CFMoto to name but three – and are they any good and how long do they last?
• can riding bikes be TOO easy? 
• what's it like riding a Multistrada the entire length of the A1? 
• and loads of other stuff, including a healthy rummage through the FEC Sack of your emails and questions. 

Thanks for listening, please come back for more and tell yer mates about FEC, and see you on the next one!

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