Martin Fitz-Gibbons

United Kingdom

Co-Host at Front End Chatter Podcast

Rider, writer, talker and Front End Chatterer.

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Articles

Here's why Yamaha's next MT-09 could feature a petrol engine and electric motor

2 weeks ago | motorcyclenews.com | Martin Fitz-Gibbons
BMW R 1300 RS (2025) - Technical Review

2 weeks ago | bennetts.co.uk | Ben Purvis |Martin Fitz-Gibbons |Jim Moore |Jon Urry

Motorcycle Journalist Overall BikeSocial ratingTBAFor the last couple of years BMW’s R 1300 GS has had a monopoly on the company’s all-new 1300cc boxer twin – but for 2025 that’s all changing after a rapid-fire launch of three additional models based around the same motor. The R 1300 RS is the last of them and completes the R 1300 lineup to consign the previous R 1250 range to the history books.
BMW R 1300 RT (2025) - Technical Review

2 weeks ago | bennetts.co.uk | Ben Purvis |Martin Fitz-Gibbons |Jim Moore |Jon Urry

Motorcycle Journalist Overall BikeSocial ratingTBABMW’s model range might have been dominated by a series of best-selling boxer GS adventure bikes over the last two decades but there’s an area where the company has an even greater depth of expertise and longer heritage: tourers.
Triumph Tiger Sport 660 (2025) - Review

3 weeks ago | bennetts.co.uk | Martin Fitz-Gibbons |Ben Purvis |Jim Moore |Jon Urry

Overall BikeSocial rating4/5It may be a middleweight when it comes to capacity, affordability and agility, but Triumph’s Tiger Sport 660 has always had heavyweight ambition as an authentic all-rounder. Launched in 2022, Triumph took their hugely popular Trident 660 roadster platform and mutated it into a multi-skilled masterpiece, courtesy of a higher riding position, longer suspension, a protective half-fairing and a larger fuel tank. Three years later the Tiger Sport 660 gets its first update.
Yamaha’s prototype hybrid motorcycle has three motors!

2 months ago | motorcyclenews.com | Martin Fitz-Gibbons
Honda VFR800 VTEC (2002-2013) - Review & Buying Guide

2 months ago | bennetts.co.uk | Jon Urry |Ben Purvis |Martin Fitz-Gibbons |Jim Moore

Massively experienced road testerOverall BikeSocial rating4/5Honda’s VFR model range set the standard for reliability and practicality throughout the 1990s and well into the 2000s. Beautifully built and powered by an exquisite V4 engine, if the rumours are to be believed Honda lost money on every early VFR750F produced as they sought to recover their tarnished reputation after the ‘chocolate cam shaft’ VF model debacle – that’s how much pride the firm invested in the VFR.
Aprilia Tuono V4 (2025) - Technical Review

2 months ago | bennetts.co.uk | Ben Purvis |Jon Urry |Martin Fitz-Gibbons |Jim Moore

Motorcycle Journalist Overall BikeSocial ratingTBCThe idea of the factory streetfighter – a superbike stripped of its fairing and given wide bars – is well established today but Aprilia’s Tuono was among the first when it was launched in 2002 and the latest-generation 2025 Tuono V4 stays true to that concept.
Yamaha FJR1300 (2013-2021) - Review & Buying Guide

2 months ago | bennetts.co.uk | Jon Urry |Martin Fitz-Gibbons |Jim Moore |Ben Purvis

Massively experienced road testerOverall BikeSocial rating5/5Yamaha’s surprisingly sporty full-dress tourer has been making waves since its introduction in 2001. Evolving and maturing over the years, the second-generation of FJR arrived in 2006 before the third, and final, incarnation appeared in 2013.
Moto Guzzi V7 (2025) - Technical Review

2 months ago | bennetts.co.uk | Ben Purvis |Jon Urry |Martin Fitz-Gibbons |Jim Moore

Motorcycle Journalist Overall BikeSocial ratingTBCWhile Moto Guzzi is forever seen as a leftfield choice thanks to that signature V-twin engine layout with a pot poking out on either side the company’s most successful model – at least in sales terms – is also its most conventional: the V7.
Best 2025 Sports bikes

2 months ago | 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.