Front End Chatter #65

Hello and welcome to the long-awaited (well, about a month) Front End Chatter Episode 65 – supported as ever by our magnificent colleagues, pals and beneFECtors at www.bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists. This week FEC bangs on about subjects as wide and varied as: how does three-time World Superbike champ Jonathan Rea's win-race ratio match to Carl Fogarty's, and how to fix World Superbike (again) did the three-way Showdown final British Superbike round at Brands and the subsequent love-in make us want to watch it next year? ...and compare all that to an epic MotoGP race at Motegi PLUS! words of gossip about what we know about 2018's new bikes (or do we?) including the 2018 supercharged, sports touring Kawasaki H2R GT... ...and their Z900RS, and how close it'll be to the existing Z900 Honda's NSC 'New Sports Cafe'... ...and if the motor is based on the CB650F inline four Honda's new Goldwing with its funny front end... KTM's 790-800cc Duke parallel twin which probably won't have bungees pulling the pistons back to TDC Yamaha's MT-07-based T7 budget adventure bike Triumph's, er, well, definitely not a 765 Daytona, say Triumph... Harley-Davidson's new Softail range of, er, big V-twins including the rather splendid Fat Bob PLUS! listeners' questions, including: what supermoto as a second bike the law around on-bike dash-cams – and can plod nick you using your own sat nav's 'snail-trail' as evidence? are smaller bikes less likely to get you in trouble? can you buy a decent used bike for the price of a new iPhone? Thank you for listening and putting up with us – and please email any biking questions (or any questions you like) or comments to [email protected] or get us on Twitter @SimonHbikes @Mufga And don't forget to check out www.bikesocial.co.uk and get your bike insurance with Bennetts.