Hello boys and girls, and welcome to Episode 197 of Front End Chatter, a motorcycling-themed podcast spoken out loud by Simon Hargreaves and Martin Fitz-Gibbons, very much the Ying and Yang, the Ego and the Id, the – if you will – Laurel and Hardy of motorcycle journalism. 

We are supported as ever by our compadres Bennetts, Britain's best bike insurer (which I think we've basically established as fact, now) and bikesocial.co.uk, the most amazingly comprehensive motorcycling website on the, er, web. And not forgetting, as if we could, bikeclub.bennetts.co.uk – the place to speak your motorcycling brains. 

And on this episode of FEC we have: 
• exhaustive details of Ducati's new Multistrada
• extensive details of Kawasaki's new Versys 1100
• executive details of the recall notice for Kawasaki's Ninja hybrid
• exemplary details of Triumph's new Speed Twin 1200
• economic details of KTM's woes 
• plus your questions, queries, thoughts and musings from the FECSack – please send your missives and misgivings to: 
anything@frontendchatter.com and we'll get round to reading it out in six months' time. Probably. 

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