# Front End Chatter #217

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Podcast: [Front End Chatter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/front-end-chatter-575707)
Published: 2025-10-13T06:56:00+00:00
Episode link: https://frontendchatter.libsyn.com/front-end-chatter-217
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Hello everyone and welcome to THE 2025 FECSTIVAL – live from the beautiful Buccleuch Arms Hotel in stunning, sun-drenched (cough, ish, ahem) Moffat, Scotlandshire! After a couple of fantastic (truth), incident-free (truth-ish) and bone-dry (truth-adjacent) days riding through the very best of the Scottish Borders and the Galloway Forest, Front End Chatter – Britain's best biking podcast – has retired to the bar for a small sweet sherry, a roaring radiator, and 43 minutes of inspired, improvised, impromptu biking banter and deep-drivel discussions including: Marc Marquez's ninth (or is it seventh?) world championship, if his comeback really is the greatest return ever witnessed across the near-infinite history of sporting achievement, and whether MotoGP's new owners are trying to control our collective thoughts Witnessing hostility towards Chinese-branded bikes thaw in real time, the reasons we're starting to be interested (b£¥ond the obviou$), and how soon before the first one is part of a FEC tour Nominations for the greatest, must-ride, can't-miss riding roads in all of mainland continental Europe, especially if the definition of 'mainland continental Europe' now includes the UK and a bit of America… Could electric bikes be the future of trackdays? Simon & Mufga's mixed fortunes with electric bikes on track. And could Front End Chatter's future lie in someone's fuel tank? Radical suggestions for reorganising bike ergonomics and controls, featuring foot clutch, backwards-action left-hand throttle and bum brake The perfect bike for when you're retiring to live in Japan Thank you FECers one and all - and to Paul, Jo and Anthea at MCi Tours - for joining us at the 2025 FECstival, either live and in person or via time-travelling earholes. And, of course, sincerest gratitu…

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