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1 week ago | 
bennetts.co.uk | Michael Mann
Welcome to the all-new Torqueing Heads series - BikeSocial's rejuvenated motorcycle chat show!Five years ago, during lockdown, we brought you Zoom-based interviews under this name. Now, we're back with a fresh twist! Join us as we dive into the world of UK motorcycling, chatting with the industry's top influencers and decision-makers. Get ready to meet the people who shape the future of motorcycling and discover their stories and businesses like never before.
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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.
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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.
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2 weeks ago | 
bennetts.co.uk | John Milbank
Consumer Editor of Bennetts BikeSocialDate reviewed: May 2025 | Tested by: John Milbank| Price: £49.99 | www.oxfordproducts.comThe Oxford Snapjack V3 on review here is made under licence from Tirox, the maker of the Tirox Snapjack V2. It’s not just a rebranded copy either – Oxford has added some useful extras and made some valuable tweaks that are more than just slapping a ‘one’ on the model version.
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2 weeks ago | 
bennetts.co.uk | John Milbank
Do you trust your jeans to keep you safe? Motorcycle riding jeans are now incredibly popular – as bikers move away from sportsbikes and focus instead on adventure, street, custom, naked and cruiser machines, denim is often the trouser of choice.
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2 weeks ago | 
bennetts.co.uk | John Milbank
Consumer Editor of Bennetts BikeSocialDate reviewed: May 2025 | Tested by: John Milbank | Price: From £439.99 | nexx-helmet.co.ukThe Nexx X.LifeCountry on review here is a flip-front adventure helmet that, on paper, offers pretty much everything I’d want. The modular design means it’s easier to pay for fuel, talk to people and get a good burst of air when it’s hot, while the peak should keep low sun out.
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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.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.