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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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

1 month ago | bennetts.co.uk | Ben Purvis |Jon Urry |Stephen Lamb |Jim Moore

Overall BikeSocial ratingTBCExactly 45 years ago BMW started a slow-burning motorcycling revolution by unveiling the original R80 Gelände/Straße – unsurprisingly shortened to G/S – and in doing so creating the genre that became known as ‘big trailies’ and later ‘adventure bikes’ that dominate the sales charts now. It wasn’t an overnight success.

1 month ago | 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.