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1 week ago | 
bennetts.co.uk | Simon Hargreaves |Ben Purvis |John Milbank |Dale Lomas
It starts with a sound. The shrill, high-pitched shriek has dogs’ ears pricking up as a small black dot appears on the horizon, shimmering in the heat haze like a tiny mote of dust dancing in sunlight. Within a few seconds the noise – it’s the sound of air being torn apart inside a spinning compressor and spat from an exhaust – deepens into roaring whistle as the dark speck resolves into the shape of a bike, pointed nose, rider prone on the tank.
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2 months ago | 
bennetts.co.uk | Simon Hargreaves |Ben Purvis |John Milbank |Dale Lomas
Hello and welcome (and a special hello and welcome to Adam Danger, who reads this 'sometimes')... to Episode 211 of Front End Chatter, the motorbicycling podcast prefrontally-lobotomised by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons, two motorcycle journalists who've been doing since their own, personal Day Ones.
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2 months ago | 
bennetts.co.uk | Ben Purvis |John Milbank |Dale Lomas |Michael Mann
Back in March 2020 the Government published a consultation into proposals to make E10 the standard 95-octane petrol on UK forecourts – doubling the amount of ethanol allowed in petrol to the concern of many riders. Despite concerns raised by many respondents about the potential damage that E10 could cause to their vehicles the rules were pushed through into legislation and came into force in September 2021.
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2 months ago | 
bennetts.co.uk | Simon Hargreaves |John Milbank |Dale Lomas |Michael Mann
Hello you lovely FECers you, and welcome to Episode 210 of the long-running, will-it-never-end, Front End Chatter podcast for motorcycles and motorcyclists, spoken out loud by Simian Hardgleaves and Marsupial Fatz-Domino. We are, as ever, indebted and beholden unto Lord Bennetts, Britannia's Best Bike Insurers and may his whaling fleet never run out of blubber, and bikesocial.co.uk, the hostess with the mostess, you know, you know... the one that goes up to 11.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
bennetts.co.uk | Martin Fitz-Gibbons |John Milbank |Dale Lomas |Michael Mann
What is a sports bike? Sportsbikes represent peak motorcycling performance and purity. They offer undiluted dynamism: huge power, minimal weight, instant handling, towering top speeds and breathtaking acceleration. And all while looking utterly heroic too. Shrink-wrapped full fairings, low-slung clip-on handlebars and high-rise rearset footpegs are the defining features of an authentic sportsbike.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
bennetts.co.uk | John Milbank |Dale Lomas |Michael Mann |Michael Burton
Police Officers will be given greater powers to access a property if a tracking device shows that a stolen motorcycle or scooter is inside, thanks to the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
bennetts.co.uk | Michael Burton |John Milbank |Dale Lomas |Michael Mann
The Daytona 200 is one of the most famous motorcycle races held around the world, with speeds in excess of 150 miles per hour set over 200 miles on the banked-oval, course located at Daytona Beach in Florida. For 2025 there is plenty of British interest with no less than potentially five riders from our small shores taking part, so BikeSocial felt it only right to create a handy one-stop shop with all the need-to-know information about the event. When will the Daytona 200 take place?
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
bennetts.co.uk | John Milbank |Dale Lomas |Michael Mann |Michael Burton
Seeing how criminal gangs move their operations around the UK can help motorcyclists realise the importance of locking their bikes, and be more prepared when thefts rise in their area. This map shows the increases and decreases of motorcycle and scooter thefts by comparing the last full month’s data with the month before that. Open the tab below the map to show the data in full, as the colours represent the CHANGE to theft rates, not the quantity.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
bennetts.co.uk | Simon Hargreaves |John Milbank |Dale Lomas |Michael Mann
Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, and it's episode 209 of the 209 episode-long motorcycling podcast presented, and I use the word in its loosest sense, by Martina Fitz-Gibbons and Simone Hargreaves, a pair of transitioning motorcycle journalists whose personal pronouns are 'it'.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
bennetts.co.uk | Steve Rose |Michael Mann |Dale Lomas |Dave Yorke
By Steve Rose and Motorbike Coach Mark McVeigh, BikeSocial’s riding Coach. I’ve spent a lot of the last seven months watching my 16-month-old granddaughter learning to walk. It’s been fascinating to see the transition between rolling over, sitting up, shuffling, standing while holding-on, tottering around and lurching into a stumble and fall. The ‘arms-out, Frankenstein shuffle’ was getting close to a walk and now, finally, something resembling a proper stroll.
