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Front End Chatter

Britain's best biking podcast, with Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons

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Front End Chatter #185 from 2023-11-19T19:05:56

Hello and welcome to FEC185, the new-bikes-for-2024 special version of Front End Chatter, Britain’s fave motorcycling podcast with him Martin Fitz-Gibbons and him Simon Hargrea...

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Front End Chatter #184 from 2023-10-15T22:55:07

Hello and welcome to Episode 184 of Front End Chatter, Britain's Bestest Biking Bodcast with him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and him, Simon Hargreaves – with thanks as ever to our patient and perfect ...

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Front End Chatter #183 from 2023-10-08T21:55:33

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's most foresighted motorcycling podcast and, as regular listeners, you don't need to be Nostradamus to know what we're going to say next. So no su...

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Front End Chatter #182 from 2023-09-27T09:01:15

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 182, live in front of a bunch o' FECers from the Elephant & Castle in Newtown, Wales!



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Front End Chatter #181 from 2023-09-04T01:51:43

Hello and welcome to Episode 181 of Front End Chatter, Britain’s most electric, eclectic and eccentric motorcycling podcast, presented by hoary old motorcycle journalists Simon...

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Front End Chatter #180 from 2023-08-19T11:03:31

Hello and welcome back to Front End Chatter, Britain's most durable motorcycling podcast, with Simone Hargreaves and Marion Fitz-Gibbons – a pair of ye olde worlde motorcycle journalists like wo...

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Front End Chatter #179 from 2023-07-12T19:45:33

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 179 of Front End Chatter, Britain’s Chattiest Motorcycling podcast with him Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and him, Simon Hargreaves – underpinned, ...

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Front End Chatter Bonus Episode from 2023-06-27T20:43:19

Hello everybody and welcome to a Front End Chatter FECsack special. Special you say? Yes, very special indeed, thanks for asking.

Why so special? Special because in a change from FEC's (u...

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Front End Chatter #178 from 2023-06-17T00:04:46

Hello and welcome one and all to Front End Chatter, Britain's cakiest motorcycle podcast with she/him, Martina Fitz-Gibbons and it/blimey, Simone Hargreaves. As the country's leading formerly em...

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Front End Chatter #SnettertonTrackDay from 2023-06-09T12:59:10

Hello everybody, and welcome to a quick but exciting FEC cordially inviting you, dear FEC listener, to the Bennetts Snetterton Track Day on Thursday 13th July.

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Front End Chatter #177 from 2023-06-03T10:40:07

Hello, good morning and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's best general-purpose biking podcast (apart from racing podcasts, of which there are many and excellent). This is Episode 177 of no...

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Front End Chatter #176 from 2023-05-09T23:08:30

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E176...

LIVE FROM THE 2023 GRIN OOP NORTH TOUR!

Yes folks, after a lengthy absence due to life, the...

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Front End Chatter #175 from 2023-03-21T21:24:57

Hello and welcome to Episode 175 of Front End Chatter, Britain’s funkiest motorcycling podcast, presented by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons, supported as ever by Benn...

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Front End Chatter #174 from 2023-02-21T14:28:12

Dearest FECers, welcome to episode 174 of the long-running – well, it's our ninth birthday, apparently, Happy Birthday to us etc – motorcycling podcast brought to you by Simon Hargreaves and Mar...

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Front End Chatter #173 from 2023-02-12T21:40:18

Hello & welcome to Front End Chatter with him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and me, Simon Harararargreaves. This is episode #173 of a long-running saga, in which we are as ever indebted to Bennetts, the...

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Front End Chatter #172 from 2023-01-28T14:12:18

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 172, hosted by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons and supported in their noble endeavours by Bennetts, the bike insurance gurus, and bikesoci...

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Front End Chatter #171 from 2023-01-12T09:43:21

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E171 and I’m a bit short on time this week so here’s a condensed version of the usual word salad: FEC is a motorcycling podcast created by Martin Fitz-Gibb...

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Front End Chatter #170 from 2022-12-22T13:16:22

Hello and welcome to episode 170 of Front End Chatter, the UK's finest motorcycling podcast with Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons (other finest motorcycling podcasts without Simon Hargre...

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Front End Chatter #169 from 2022-12-07T23:15:49

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's best biking podcast even if we – 'we' being Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, a pair of motorcycling ne'er-do-wells who once had an opin...

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Front End Chatter #168 from 2022-11-13T01:19:06

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Episode 168 in the long-running series of Great Motorcycling Podcasts – yes, we're back after a late summer break in which one of us got married and one o...

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Front End Chatter #167 from 2022-10-06T22:13:29

Hello everyone, and welcome to episode 16...

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Front End Chatter #166 from 2022-09-23T12:15:58

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s chattiest motorcycling podcast with him, Simon Hargreaves and him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and supported as ever by the wonderful folk at Bennetts,...

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Front End Chatter #165 from 2022-08-25T12:17:18

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's best biking podcast, and episode 165 featuring him, Simon Hargreaves, and him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons. Front End Chatter is, forever and day, spons...

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Front End Chatter #164 from 2022-08-15T00:13:18

Hello and welcome to Episode 164 of Front End Chatter (or 'FEC' as it's also known around these parts) – a motorcycling podcast, ish, supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists and bi...

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Front End Chatter #163 from 2022-07-31T13:26:45

Hello and welcome to Episode 163 of Front End Chatter, Britain's most flavoursome motorcyclistic podcast with Simon Fitz-Gibbons and Martin Hargreaves if you're listening in black & white. 
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Front End Chatter #162 from 2022-07-15T12:17:21

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Episode 162 of the long-running family of motorcycling podcasts featuring wayward sons Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons (combined motorcycle journ...

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Front End Chatter #161 from 2022-07-01T22:46:36

Welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s favourite biking and egg-throwing podcast, presented by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, and supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialist...

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Front End Chatter #160 from 2022-06-03T21:30:50

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's Podcastiest Motorcycle, brought to you by Simone Hargreaves, Martina Fitz-Gibbons, Ben Nets (the bike insurance specialists) and bikesocial.co.u...

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Front End Chatter #159 from 2022-05-03T02:11:31

Hello and welcome everyone to Episode 159 of Front End Chatter, Britain's Lengthiest Motorcycling Podcast – supported and extended by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, and Bikesocial.co....

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Front End Chatter #158 from 2022-04-23T13:26:10

Hello and welcome to Episode 158 of Front End Chatter, Britain's most sideways motorcycle podcast, supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, and BikeSocial.co.uk, the best place on ...

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Front End Chatter #157 from 2022-04-10T16:30:03

Hello and welcome everyone to Front End Chatter, Britain’s talkiest motorcycle podcast, and episode 157 presented by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves – supported by Bennetts, the bike in...

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Front End Chatter #156 from 2022-03-28T10:32:33

Hello everyone and welcome to Front End Chatter, a motorcycling podcast of sorts in which Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons conspire, despite something like a combined half century in mot...

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Front End Chatter #155 from 2022-03-11T01:40:44

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E155, the Ben Bostrom episode, presented by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons from Chatter Manors, ably supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance ex...

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Front End Chatter #154 from 2022-02-25T16:38:52

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E154, and – please put your lips together and pipe us a tune – it’s our 8th birthday! That means Simon has been making Front End Chatter for 14% of his lif...

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Front End Chatter #153 from 2022-02-13T00:57:04

Hello and welcome to Front Endy Prongs number 153 in the long-running cerealised podcast of motorcycle-related things, sponsored forever and a day by Bennetts, the prince among Thebes of bike in...

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Front End Chatter #152 from 2022-01-31T02:18:34

Hello and welcome everyone to Front End Chatter, Britain’s Best Predominantly Road-Based Biking Podcast, with Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons supported for the 100th time by Bennetts, t...

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Front End Chatter #151 from 2022-01-17T09:14:57

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, possibly Britain’s longest-running motorcycling podcast, don’t sue us, we haven’t done the maths, and welcome to episode 151, supported and enhanced as ev...

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Front End Chatter #150 from 2021-12-21T00:24:43

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 150, presented as ever by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, and supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialist, and bikesocial.co.uk,...

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Front End Chatter #149 from 2021-12-03T11:10:53

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, and is it that time already? This, in all its error-strewn glory, is Listen

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Front End Chatter #148 from 2021-11-19T17:20:04

Hello and welcome to episode 148 of the long-running motorcycling podcast otherwise known as Front End Chatter, presented before your brain by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons and suppor...

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Front End Chatter #147 from 2021-10-28T12:34:13

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, and episode 147 of the world’s most motorcycling podcast performed by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance ...

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Front End Chatter #146 from 2021-09-26T21:25:35

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E146, the UK’s most iambically pentametered motorcycling podcast, poetically performed and produced by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, and perenn...

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Front End Chatter #145 from 2021-09-11T23:24

Hello and go away to Front End Chatter, the UK’s most motorcycling podcast featuring aural nonsense from Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves. This is episode 145, supported and nourished by...

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Front End Chatter #144 from 2021-08-26T01:00:13

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 144, Britain’s – nay, the world’s – most irreverent motorcycling podcast, with Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves. Thanks as ever to Bennetts...

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Front End Chatter #143 from 2021-08-14T10:43:14

Welcome, friends, to Front End Chatter E143 – the one hundred and forty third time Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, some-time motorcycle journalists past and present, have sat, stood an...

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Front End Chatter #142 from 2021-08-01T23:00:37

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E142, and right up front please accept sincere apologies for the lousy sound quality – the usual recording room at Chatter Manors has been flooded by an un...

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Front End Chatter #141 from 2021-07-18T11:39:17

Hello and welcome to E141 of that Front End Chatter they have nowadays, spoken with words by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves and supported, enabled and legitimised by our fwends at Benn...

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Front End Chatter #140 from 2021-07-01T00:14:51

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 140 – in which Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves (supported and nurtured by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, and www.bikesocial.co....

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Front End Chatter #139 from 2021-06-18T10:59:42

Hello and welcome to episode 139 of Front End Chatter, the marvellous motorcycling podcast supported and, indeed, buoyed by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, and www.bikesocial.co.uk, th...

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Front End Chatter #138 from 2021-06-02T17:07:31

Hello and benvenuto to Front End Chatter, Britain’s most tardy motorcycling podcast with Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves. And why not. And, lest we forget, grazie to our wonderfully ben...

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Front End Chatter #137 from 2021-04-25T22:41:58

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 137 in the long-running series of 137 so far, in which Simon H and Mufga, a pair of motorcycling outfluencers, talk about motorbikes and motorcycli...

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Front End Chatter #136 from 2021-04-05T21:23:29

Hello and welcome to Episode 136 of Front End Chatter, the UK's most chocolatey motorcycling podcast. 

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Front End Chatter #135 from 2021-03-21T18:56:26

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, the world’s most self-deprecating motorcycling podcast in which, for the 135th time, Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons talk two wheels into a micro...

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Front End Chatter #134 from 2021-03-07T01:40:59

Hello and welcome to Episode 134 of Front End Chatter, the UK's most scatterbrained motorcycling podcast featuring the musical talents of Martin 'Maverick Not Vinales' Fitz-Gibbons and Simon 'Ic...

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Front End Chatter #133 from 2021-02-18T23:58:10

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s most pancake-powered biking podcast, with Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons, Britain’s most pancaked motorcycle journalists. And Front En...

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Front End Chatter #132 from 2021-02-05T01:01:57

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, and episode 132 of the long funning ramily drama in which ranty old seadog Simon Hargreaves (played by Oliver Reed, in his final screen role), rattling ar...

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Front End Chatter #131 from 2021-01-21T00:31:16

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E131, Britain’s favourite and longest serving motorcycling podcast, possibly either or, who’s counting? What’s for sure is we’re indebted and abetted by Be...

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Front End Chatter #130 from 2021-01-11T01:46:51

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E130, and the first FEC of 2021; a brand new year, and hopefully things will get better – but some things stay the same and there’s not much chance of FEC ...

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Front End Chatter #Joan Mir Interview from 2021-01-05T17:27:16

Hello and welcome to a very special mini-episode of Front End Chatter, sponsored by Bennetts and www.bikesocial.co.uk – and it’s the one where Simon and Martin, literally a quartet of spods in u...

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Front End Chatter #129 from 2020-12-23T00:12:44

Hello and welcome a fully festive, technically flawed, partially visual (which makes no sense to listeners in black and white) but otherwise entirely oral episode 129 of Front End Chatter, Brita...

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Front End Chatter #128 from 2020-12-10T23:12:08

Ladies and gentlemens, pray welcome to Front End Chatter E128. Inside you’ll discover presentation by the ineffable Mr Simon Hargreaves and the inestimable Mr Martin Fitz-Gibbons, plus their del...

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Front End Chatter #127 from 2020-11-29T00:53:50

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 127, the slightly behind the curve episode, with Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves waffling along as usual – supported and enhanced by Benne...

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Front End Chatter #126 from 2020-11-01T15:02:16

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's most paracorded motorcycling podcast Fronted by Simon Hargreaves, Ended by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Chattered by www.bikesocial.co.uk and Bennett...

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Front End Chatter #125 from 2020-10-17T01:09:25

Hello and welcome for Front End Chatter, Britain’s best biking podcast, and Episode 125 of the aforementioned, presented by him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and him, Simon Hargreaves. And we are, as ev...

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Front End Chatter #124 from 2020-10-05T00:51:46

Hurrah for wet roads, diminishing daylight and dropping temperatures. We’re so excited about the onset of winter. Excited, excited, excited. Apparently, a study of the moods of the Nordic people...

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Front End Chatter #123 from 2020-09-18T13:40:37

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s nicest motorcycling podcast, with Simon H & Mufga, punctuated and perforated by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists and BikeSocial.co.uk, h...

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Front End Chatter #122 from 2020-08-22T00:45:50

Hello und velcome, friends, to Front End Chatter Episode 122 in which Simone and Marion chatter endlessly, augmented into three dimensions under the auspices of Bennetts, the bike insurance spec...

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Front End Chatter #121 from 2020-08-05T13:42:12

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E121, Britain’s most aromatic motorcycling podcast, presented by the fragrant Simon Hargreaves and the perfumed Martin Fitz-Gibbons – and supported as ever...

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Front End Chatter #120 from 2020-07-25T10:31:17

Hello and welcome to FEC120, the 120th episode of not the UK’s most popular automotive podcast but one of them. As ever, we are indebted to Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists – and check o...

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Front End Chatter #119 from 2020-07-12T15:49:35

 

 

Hello and welcome to possibly the final lock-down episode of Front End Chatter, the motorcycling podcast that reaches the parts upon which other podcasts fear to tread. Thanks ...

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Front End Chatter #118 from 2020-06-29T00:17:19

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, the occasionally number one motorcycling podcast in Iceland and, now, Singapore. This is episode 118 in a series we can confidently state contains at leas...

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Front End Chatter #117 from 2020-06-16T10:59:30

Halló og velkomin to Front End Chatter E117, briefly the most popular automotive podcast in the whole of Iceland (a country renowned for its exquisite and most excellent taste) and also, briefly...

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Front End Chatter #116 from 2020-05-29T19:03:15

Hello you lucky people you, and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 116 with Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons,  brought to you via Durham with a detour to Castle Barnard. 

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Front End Chatter #115 from 2020-05-16T13:34:32

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s most teeth-sucking motorcycling podcast... but no! That was the previous episode! For FEC115, Simon and Martin have installed a 5G mast at Chatt...

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Front End Chatter #114 from 2020-04-30T13:50:04

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s – nay, the world’s – most socially isolated motorcycle podcast, with Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons... and welcome to Episode 114 – th...

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Front End Chatter #113 from 2020-04-16T12:19:46

Hello and welcome to E113 and the second lock-down episode of Front End Chatter, the biking podcast that’s been around for over 160 hours of guffage – none of yer opportunist ‘Johnny-come-lately...

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Front End Chatter #112 from 2020-03-20T12:39:28

Hello and welcome to very special, hopefully one-off, episode of Front End Chatter in which, as a result of current events, has been assembled from snippets of previous FECs and turned into a co...

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Front End Chatter #111 from 2020-03-08T01:19:01

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E111, the Aaron Slight Episode of Britain's flavoured biking podcast, sponsored and supported as always by nos amis at Listen

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Front End Chatter #110 from 2020-02-22T02:11:09

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s best and most motorcycling podcast, supported through slim and thin by the veritable font (or indeed fount; both are legitimate) of tests and ne...

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Front End Chatter #109 from 2020-01-24T12:44:07

Hello and welcome to E109 of Front End Chatter, a biking podcast without barriers or boundaries – we know not the meaning of constraints other than the fairly obvious extent of our knowledge and...

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Front End Chatter #108 from 2020-01-14T15:09:56

Hello, welcome and feel free, literally, to feast your aurals on Front End Chatter, A Most Biking Podcast, with this being Episode 108 delivered in a stream of barely comprehensible noughts and ...

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Front End Chatter #107 from 2019-12-29T21:25:36

 

Hello and welcome to E107 of Front End Chatter, Britain’s most biodegradable biking podcast, oralised by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, and supported and recycled by the gree...

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Front End Chatter #106 from 2019-12-13T08:20:49

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E106, Britain’s fave biking podcast, supported and enabled by the good people at bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists.

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Front End Chatter #105 from 2019-11-27T14:26:40

Hello hello hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s rambliest biking podcast with him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons and me, Simon Hargreaves – enabled, legitimised and somewhat vindicated by Bi...

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Front End Chatter #104 from 2019-11-14T13:56:31

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter episode 104, eventually, brought to you by via the web’s best motorcycling website, bikesocial.co.uk, and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, via the...

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Front End Chatter #103 from 2019-10-03T14:51:17

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter episode 103, suspended like a great chattering hammock from the stout tree trunks at bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists.
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Front End Chatter #102 from 2019-09-22T13:45:30

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode... oh, look, who's counting? It's not like we're keeping score.

Anyway – here are Simon and Martin, Making Britain's Biking Podcasts G...

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Front End Chatter #101 from 2019-09-09T01:50:16

Hello and welcome to the podcast they said would never happen – 'they' being 'us' – yes, it's Front End Chatter E101 – the one hundred and one-est motorcycling podgasm in the world. 

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Front End Chatter #100 from 2019-08-15T23:47:18

Hello and welcome to....

THE FECTACULAR! 

Yes, this is the century, the big one-zero-zero, the 100-not-out, the five-score... and widely rumoured to be the last ever Front End Chat...

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Front End Chatter #99 from 2019-08-06T23:43:43

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 99, the Nearly-But-Not-Quite episode brought to your ears in cahoots with the best biking website on the, er, web – bikesocial.co.uk – and the best...

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Front End Chatter #98 from 2019-07-24T20:31:36

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 98, the One Less Than Jorge episode, verbalised and spuffed into noughts and ones with the roadside assistance of bikesocial.co.uk and their insuri...

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Front End Chatter #97 from 2019-07-18T12:50:41

Apologies for the late arrival of FEC#97 – delayed by unexpected items in the bagging area – but now it’s here, let’s tuck in! Brought to you as always by the furiously febrile funkateers at bik...

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Front End Chatter #96 from 2019-06-30T14:16:22

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E96, the world’s most favouritist biking podcast, supported as ever by bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists.

Rambling gossi...

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Front End Chatter #95 from 2019-06-18T07:02:10

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter and the 95th outing for Britain’s most stubbornly random motorcycling podcast, suspended as ever between the 48mm upsidedowners of bikesocial.co.uk – the w...

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Front End Chatter #94 from 2019-05-31T13:48:48

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 94, and the clue’s in the name: for the 94th time, two hoary old motorcycle journalists stand around and make front noises into a pair of microphon...

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Front End Chatter #93 from 2019-05-15T08:05:55

Hello, good morning and welcome to Front End Chatter, E93 in the long-running series of two men talking bobbins about bikes, and if you're looking for someone to blame try bikesocial.co.uk, the ...

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Front End Chatter #92 from 2019-04-30T13:43:40

Look out, it’s Front End Chatter E92, the biking podcast enabled, empowered, energised and veritably triggered by the cosmonauts at bikesocial.co.uk and bods at Bennetts, the bike insurance spec...

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Front End Chatter #91 from 2019-04-25T08:29:50

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E91, the nearly-but-not-quite episode, supported, enabled and triggered by www.bikesocial.co.uk – or is it just bikesocial.co.uk? – and Bennetts, the bike ...

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Front End Chatter #90 from 2019-03-24T13:18:57

Hello, good morning and welcome to Front End Chatter E90, Britain’s most least favourite biking podcast, veritably triggered by www.bikesocial.co.uk, the world’s biking on the web, and Bennetts,...

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Front End Chatter #89 from 2019-03-10T16:02:59

Hello and welcome to Episode 89 of Front End Chatter, Britain’s most insured motorcycling podcast delivered fresh to your ears by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons – enabled by the humano...

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Front End Chatter #88 from 2019-02-23T20:53:55

Hellooo and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s most homoerotic motorcycling podcast, supported and empowered by www.bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists.

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Front End Chatter #87 from 2019-01-29T20:43:44

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 87 #Remy Gardner... it’s only just occurred to me, but what kind of name is Remy? Is he named after a cognac or something? Anyway, welcome, one and...

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Front End Chatter #86 from 2019-01-12T19:17:57

Happy New... oh, is too late for that?

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s most enduring motorcycling podcast (much to chagrin of Les343) presented by me, Simon Hargre...

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Front End Chatter #85 from 2018-12-26T12:56:48

Hello and welcome to a festive Front End Chatter, delivered with a ho-ho-ho by the Santa Claus of motorcycling websites, www.bikesocial.co.uk, in association with Bennetts, the bike insurance sp...

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Front End Chatter #84 from 2018-12-09T18:12:07

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 84, presented for your ears in association with the multi-purposed humanoids of www.bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance experts.
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Front End Chatter #83 from 2018-11-23T14:10:30

Welcome to Front End Chatter E83, and what a perfectly formed audio package it is too – supported and sustained as forever and always by the magnificent humanoids at www.bikesocial.co.uk and the...

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Front End Chatter #82 from 2018-11-09T17:20:08

Hello lovely people and welcome to our humble musings on the world of two wheels, otherwise known as Front End Chatter. 

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Front End Chatter #81 from 2018-10-04T15:25:44

 

Oh my lordy lord, here’s Front End Chatter E81, hot on the heels of E80 and ploughing an ill-informed furrow through the field of motorcycling podcasts, supported and upheld as ever by ...

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Front End Chatter #80 from 2018-09-26T05:19:48

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E80, brought to you from the girded loins at www.bikesocial.co.uk and supported by bike insurance humanoids at Bennetts.

This week, chatter topics f...

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Front End Chatter #79 from 2018-09-05T15:16:49

Hello and welcome to Never mind all that usual bobbins, we've got an actual interview with actual Marc Márquez!

In episode 79 of Britai...

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Front End Chatter #78 from 2018-08-09T18:47:45

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, and E78 of Britain's finest motorcycling podcast, presented, in the loosest possible sense, by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, although it's a s...

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Front End Chatter #77 from 2018-07-18T12:13:25

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter episode 77! Courtesy of the alliterative, improvised, indigenous tribes behind Bike Social (that's www.bikesocial.co.uk) and spoken through the mouths of v...

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Front End Chatter #76 from 2018-06-23T23:15:55

Hello and welcome to episode 76 of Front End Chatter, Britain’s most argumentative motorcycling podcast, presented in the loosest sense of the word by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, a...

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Front End Chatter #75 from 2018-06-06T15:33:01

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, episode 75 of Britain's sweariest motorcycling podcast, presented before your ears by two motorcycle journalists called, literally, Martin Fitz-Gibbons an...

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Front End Chatter #74 from 2018-04-29T13:57:08

We’re back!

Welcome to Britain’s most paternal motorcycling podcast, Front End Chatter Episode 74, supported by the infinite patience of our friends at www.bikesocial.co.uk, in asso...

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Front End Chatter #73 from 2018-03-02T18:02:42

Hello and welcome to a slightly sweary, distinctly snowy Front End Chatter Episode 73, supported as ever by nos amis at BikeSocial (wwwbikesocial.co.uk) and Bennetts the bike insurers – and whic...

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Front End Chatter #72 from 2018-02-11T12:57:08

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 72, Britain's most rambling, shambling biking podcast supported as ever by our gender-neutral comrades at ww...

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Front End Chatter #71 from 2018-01-29T11:30:53

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain’s mostest biking podcast, supported by nos amis at Britain’s foremost and most comprehensive biking website, www.bikesocial.co.uk...

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Front End Chatter #70 from 2018-01-17T11:35:15

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 70, the world’s most eclectic motorcycling podcast, supported by www.biksocial.co.uk, the UK’s most informed and entertaining website, and Bennetts...

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Front End Chatter #69 from 2017-12-27T11:56:18

Had enough of cold turkey? Fear not, here’s your fix of Front End Chatter Episode 69, served in a very small tin foil hat with a side-order of www.bikesocial.co.uk in association with Bennetts, ...

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Front End Chatter #68 from 2017-12-09T22:48:57

Hello everybody and welcome to Front End Chatter, the biking podcast powered and empowered by the super-swell folk at Bike Social - that's www.bikesocial.co.uk.

In episode 68 Simon and Ma...

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Front End Chatter #67 from 2017-11-25T01:15:53

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter 67, the Shakey’s Racing Age episode, ably supported by our friends at www.bikesocial.co.uk who are in turn supported by bike insurance bods Bennetts.

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Front End Chatter #66 from 2017-11-10T11:37:03

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E66, supported by our good friends at www.bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists – and who better to insure your gleaming new, 2018 ...

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Front End Chatter #65 from 2017-10-20T07:59:23

Hello and welcome to the long-awaited (well, about a month) Front End Chatter Episode 65 – supported as ever by our magnificent colleagues, pals and beneFECtors at www.bikesocial.co.uk and Benne...

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Front End Chatter #64 from 2017-09-12T17:29:34

Hello and welcome to a special, John McGuinness Front End Chatter Episode 64, supported by our good friends at www.bikesocial.co.uk, supported by Bennetts, the bike insurer par excellence, bar n...

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Front End Chatter #63 from 2017-08-25T19:47:22

Hello everybody and welcome to Front End Chatter #63, brought to you by the definitely-not-primates at Bike Social (that's www.bikesocial.co.uk where, as well as all the latest news, views and r...

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Front End Chatter #62 from 2017-08-10T16:48:01

Hello everybody and welcome to Front End Chatter, the semi-regular spoken word salad that refuses to stray into nostalgia (other than to remember when nostalgia was better than it is today). Epi...

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Front End Chatter #61 from 2017-07-21T15:40:04

Hello everybody and welcome to Front End Chatter – Britain's best biking podcast, powered (and empowered) by the wondrous two-wheeled website known as Bike Social (that's Listen

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Front End Chatter #60 from 2017-07-09T15:08:41

Welcome to Front End Chatter E60, sponsored as always by our good friends at www.bikesocial.co.uk and backed by Bennetts, the bike insurance boys and girls. And what a scandal-laden FEC we have ...

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Front End Chatter #59 from 2017-06-25T18:23:02

Welcome to Front End Chatter E59, brought to you in association with our good friends at www.bikesocial.co.uk, sponsored by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialist...

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Front End Chatter #58 from 2017-06-09T21:44:13

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 58, supported by www.bikesocial.co.uk and sponsored by Bennetts – and a very special, fully employed episode it is t...

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Front End Chatter #57 from 2017-05-27T19:58:16

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter episode 57, which is really episode 69, powered by the mighty online juggernaut of two-wheeled infotainment that is Bike Social (that's www.bikesocial.co.u...

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Front End Chatter #56 from 2017-05-14T01:11:41

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, and episode 56 brought to you in association with our pals at www.bikesocial.co.uk.

 

This week, between blackbird interruptions, we look ba...

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Front End Chatter #55 from 2017-04-25T10:59:14

Welcome to Front End Chatter episode 55, powered by the good people at Bike Social (www.bikesocial.co.uk), where Simon and Martin discuss:

  • MotoGP from Texas, where we got the first ...

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Front End Chatter #54 from 2017-04-10T19:40:13

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E54, brought to you as is our wont, by our friends at www.bikesocial.co.uk
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Front End Chatter #53b from 2017-04-08T21:23:38

Welcome to Front End Chatter 53b – made possible by www.bikesocial.co.uk; go check them out! – and it’s a special FEC dedicated to answering, or failing to answer, your emails. Topics up for Fro...

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Front End Chatter #53a from 2017-03-31T20:27:38

Welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 53a, powered yet again by our friends at www.bikesocial.co.uk – and yes, it’s the first of two FECs; 53b will be along shortly...

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Front End Chatter #52 from 2017-03-15T09:16:09

Welcome to Front End Chatter, episode 52 – and it’s a very special episode of Britain’s least regular but much-loved motorcycling podcast because this is the first to be brought to you by the lo...

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Front End Chatter #51 from 2017-03-04T05:33:15

Say hello to Front End Chatter Episode 51, a numerically insignificant episode that nonetheless contains much chatterage about:

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Front End Chatter #50 from 2017-02-09T00:13:10

Welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 50 – yes, you’re not imagining it, it’s really real, and only a week after Episode 49.

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Front End Chatter #49 from 2017-02-03T13:02:02

Welcome to FEC49, finally – at least in the sense it’s been a long time coming, not in the conclusive sense. And, despite no actual racing to talk about, we find e...

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Front End Chatter #48 from 2016-11-17T18:02:47

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E48, which you'll be pleased to hear has no racing at all apart from a brief discussion about the merits of being called Danny Kent but not actually coming...

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Front End Chatter #47 from 2016-11-08T20:58:45

Hello and welcome back to Front End Chatter E47 - it's been a while, so we've come back with an episode purely about racing – who's won what, why, how, and what will happen next year – and we in...

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Front End Chatter #46b from 2016-08-18T16:58:27

Welcome to Part Two of FEC's Summer Special, featuring your emails and assorted chatter about: 

• the pros and cons of riding at night

• the ethics of washing bikes and bikin...

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Front End Chatter #46a from 2016-08-18T13:35:48

Hello, and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's original... most original... oh, whatever. It's a podcast mostly about bikes, with added swearing.

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Front End Chatter #45 from 2016-07-11T21:42:14

Welcome to Front End Chatter E45 featuring not much racing, shock, partly because there hasn’t been much since E44 but mostly because we didn’t actually watch what...

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Front End Chatter #44 from 2016-06-23T19:31:38

Welcome to Front End Chatter #44, in which Mufga and SiH talk about a couple of MotoGP races that happened ages ago – and including the tragic loss of Moto2’s Luis...

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Front End Chatter #43 from 2016-05-09T16:08:13

Welcome to Front End Chatter E43, brought to you in association with the enjoy-while-it-lasts British summer. In this episode, Simon and Mufga chatter about:  Listen

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Front End Chatter #42 from 2016-04-08T22:37:32

I dunno, you wait ages for an episode of Front End Chatter, and then two come along at once. 

Welcome to FEC#42, which is (almost) solely devoted to rea...

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Front End Chatter #41 from 2016-04-07T13:22:33

We're back! After a prolonged absence, which we find is the best kind, Front End Chatter returns with post-Argentina MotoGP gossip – and, let's face it, it had the...

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Front End Chatter #40 from 2016-02-19T12:20:46

Episode 40 of Front End Chatter, the Finger On The Pulse episode, comes not so much hot as slightly tepid with gossip from MotoGP testing (at Sepang, Malaysia, not...

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Front End Chatter #39 from 2016-01-22T23:06:43

HelloAndWelcomeToEpisode39OfBritain'sFavouriteBikingPodcast! And breathe...


In the first FEC of 2016, Simon and Martin discuss:


- The Dakar Rally, who's winning, who isn't,...

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Front End Chatter #38 from 2015-12-17T18:18:54

Front End Chatter E38 looks back at 2015: the best bikes, the best races, the best racers, the biggest losers, and Martin and Simon's personal fave moments – plus the absence of British world ch...

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Front End Chatter #37 from 2015-11-26T01:43:44

Welcome to Front End Chatter E37 in which, now the dust has settled, Martin and Simon discuss the ramifications of that race from the point of view of someone who was in the grandstands at Valen...

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