About this episode

In this episode, the hosts discuss various topics related to motorcycles, including downsizing, bike security, and endurance racing.

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's most celebratory biking podcast, currently marking the historic 223rd anniversary of the moment Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons opened up a small family firm manufacturing essential podcast components. After the original Chatter Manors was flattened by an implausibly large quantity of pancakes falling from the sky, the burgeoning business was brought under state control by the good folk at Bennetts, Britain's best motorcycle insurance brokers. If your bike insurance is due soon get yourself a quote direct at bennetts.co.uk - and if it isn't, then head instead to bikesocial.co.uk for all manner of two-wheeled news and reviews. Oh, and don't forget to check out Bennetts BikeSocial on The YouTubes, where a brand new season of The Great Escape To The Country - sorry, What Bike Next? - will be dropping soon. Anyhow. In this episode Si & Mufga chatter all about: Downsizing, and whether small bikes are the next big thing Why Langen's Lightspeed is the polar inverse of BMW's R1300GS Silently sneaking around the countryside on Stark's Varg EX Screen (extenders) if you want to go faster Whether bike security is a total waste of…

People in this episode

Hosts: Simon Hargreaves, Martin Fitz-Gibbons

Topics covered

• downsizing bikes
• small bikes
• bike security
• endurance racing
• motorcycle insurance

Keywords

• motorcycles
• bike insurance
• Langen Lightspeed
• BMW R1300GS
• Stark Varg EX
• endurance racing
• bike security

Sponsors

Bennetts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bennetts BikeSocial, Langen, bikesocial.co.uk

Products: Lightspeed, R1300GS, Varg EX

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