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 microphone. FEC is supported by Bennetts, Britain’s best bike insurance specialists, and www.bikesocial.co.uk, the web’s central repository of all the news, new bike reviews, product tests and touring info worth a read.

And on this week’s FEC we have:

• the season hasn’t even begun yet, but MotoGP testing from Qatar has already produced a long list of winners and losers, and raised more questions than it answered:
• will Dovi race an Aprilia this season?
• when will Marc Marquez return?
• who will be Yamaha’s top rider?
• will this be Rossi’s last season?

Plus we have gossip about:

• a potential return for the R7 name, but not as we know it
• when buying a crash helmet, do you get better protection the more you spend?
• is a KTM SUperDuke GT a better sports tourer than a Kawasaki Z1000SX or a new Yamaha Tracer 9 GT?
• where should we put our feet, part II
• what’s Moto Guzzi’s next step?
• is a 2021 FireBlade really a better road bike than a 2011 model?
• what’s the best bike for a motorcycling Rip Van Winkle?

All this and more! Get it while it’s hot!

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