Simon Hargreaves

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.

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.

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.

Mar 25, 2025 | bennetts.co.uk | Jon Urry |Stephen Lamb |Jim Moore |Simon Hargreaves

Massively experienced road testerOverall BikeSocial rating4/5The Triumph Bonneville is one of those bikes that needs little introduction. Originally released in 1958 and named in honour of Johnny Allen’s 214mph land speed record that was set in 1956 on a Triumph at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, it was only ever going to be a matter of time before the reinvented British brand reintroduced the Bonneville name for a new generation of riders to enjoy.

Mar 25, 2025 | bennetts.co.uk | Jim Moore |Jon Urry |Stephen Lamb |Simon Hargreaves

Bike journo for a quarter of a centuryOverall BikeSocial rating4/5The G650GS took over from the old F650 as BMW’s entry level ‘adventure’ single in 2011. The outgoing BMW F 650 GS was a hard act to follow, having garnered loyal fans the world over on account of its easy-going nature, reliable Rotax motor, strong all-round ability and – for a bike wearing the famous BMW badge – affordability.