Front End Chatter #215

Front End Chatter #215

From Front End Chatter by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons

July 31, 2025 · 1h 39m

About this episode

The episode discusses the return of several motorcycle models and industry news.

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, and it's episode 215 of the long-running motorcycling podcast with him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and him, Simon Hargreaves – and immense thanks as always to the ever-supportive Bennetts, Britain's best-by-miles bike insurer, and the magnificent bikesocial.co.uk, the website with all your info on the latest new bikes, used bikes, classic bikes, news, reviews and product tests. Right, on with the show – and, today, we're in for a reborn, reinvented, reimagined, reincarnated treat... because: • Suzuki's GSX-R1000R is back, baby, for 2026 – and we have all the details, hot off the emails from Hamamatsu: power, weight, colours and tech. You can read about it elsewhere – but you can only hear about it, er, here • KTM are back, baby – details of production starting again in Austria; the what, the when, and the how many • BSA's Bantam is back, baby – yes, after only half a century, the owners of BSA, Mahindra, decide to resurrect the name for their new 334cc single roadster, as a direct rival to Honda's GB350S • and of course the FECsack is back, baby – more musings, ponderings and queries from you lot to us lot about that lot Thanks for listening…

People in this episode

Hosts: Simon Hargreaves, Martin Fitz-Gibbons

Topics covered

  • motorcycling
  • motorcycle news
  • bike reviews
  • new bike releases
  • motorcycle industry

Keywords

  • Suzuki GSX-R1000R
  • KTM
  • BSA Bantam
  • motorcycle news
  • bike reviews

Sponsors

Bennetts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: bikesocial.co.uk, KTM

Products: Suzuki's GSX-R1000R, BSA's Bantam, Honda's GB350S

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