Front End Chatter

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 Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists.   This week FEC bangs on about subjects as wide and varied as:   how does three-time World Superbike champ Jonathan Rea’s win-race ratio match to Carl Fogarty’s, and how to fix World Superbike (again) did the three-way Showdown final British Superbike round at Brands and the subsequent love-in make us want to watch it next year? ...and compare all that to an epic MotoGP race at Motegi   PLUS! words of gossip about what we know about 2018’s new bikes (or do we?) including the 2018 supercharged, sports touring Kawasaki H2R GT... ...and their Z900RS, and how close it’ll be to the existing Z900 Honda’s NSC ‘New Sports Cafe’... ...and if the motor is based on the CB650F inline four Honda’s new Goldwing with its funny front end... KTM’s 790-800cc Duke parallel twin which probably won’t