Front End Chatter9 Jul 2017

Front End Chatter #60

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 this week:

• despite a truncated MotoGP/racing section we still manage to disrespeculate on Lorenzo's future at Ducati and compare his debut season so far to Rossi's disaster in 2011...

• get into the financial fall-out from the shambles formally known as the Circuit Of Wales...

• details of the new Ducati V4 replacement for the Panigale, after the Final Edition – which, it turns out, might not be so final after all, and will be available from September this year and will cost £35,000...

• ...and why the V-twin is the most versatile engine layout ever built

• BMW's service campaign to check all R1200GSs and GSAs built between late 2013 to date, to make sure the forks aren't about to fall off – and why we should or shouldn't be alarmed by it

• and how Honda's blighted 2017 FireBlade, both base and SP versions, stands up at a Mallory Park track day – a Bennetts Mallory Park track day, no less – against Suzuki's new GSX-R1000R

All this takes so long we don't get time to read any emails at all, so apologies – but at least it means we'll have a another non-racing FEC in a few weeks' time!

Thanks again for listening, and please email us at anything@frontendchatter.com with questions and comments, or get us on the Twitter:

@SimonHBikes & @Mufga

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