Martin Fitz-Gibbons

United Kingdom

Co-Host at Front End Chatter Podcast

Rider, writer, talker and Front End Chatterer.

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Articles

Triumph Tiger Sport 660 (2025) - Review

3 days 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!

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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.
Kawasaki GPZ900R (1984-1991): Review & Buying Guide

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

Overall BikeSocial rating5/5Kawasaki’s GPZ900R is arguably the finest bike of the 1980s. Not only a huge hit with road riders and proddie racers alike from its showroom debut in early 1984, this inline-four superbike outlived its successor, the GPZ1000RX, by four years in the UK and 16 years worldwide.
Supercharged Showdown: ride a Kawasaki flat out, legally!

2 months ago | bennetts.co.uk | Michael Mann |Michael Burton |Martin Fitz-Gibbons |Ben Purvis

Click the image to go to BikeSocial Membership platform to registerFancy riding your Supercharged Kawasaki flat out? Calling all Supercharged Kawasaki owners, road legal or otherwise. Or those interested in a Supercharged Kawasaki. How would you like to attend a joint BikeSocial/Kawasaki event and do as many high-speed runs as you want on the UK’s longest available runway?
Ducati XDiavel V4 (2025) - Technical Review

2 months ago | bennetts.co.uk | Ben Purvis |Martin Fitz-Gibbons

Motorcycle Journalist Overall BikeSocial ratingTBCDucati’s XDiavel has been something of an outlier in the company’s lineup ever since it first appeared back in 2016 – taking the Diavel muscle bike as its basis and skewing it into an unconventional cruiser format with forward-mounted foot controls and pulled-back bars.