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John Milbank @johnmilbank.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Slim chance I know, but can anyone help me find Dad's old trike please? According to DVLA it's still on the road. Would be fantastic to get in touch with the owner #motosky

VW Beetle based trike registration Q880 WHL

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Yes, we did one together at Boastie's Champions School. I've done one at the Royal Enfield too. And I did actually "race" a round of Short Track back in 2006.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Identical powertrain, battery, charging etc - just differ in wheels and tyres: DM has mad 19-inchers with weird-sized dirt track tubber; Alpinista has 17in sports touring tyres in normal 120 / 180 sizes. Suspension feels pusher on this than the DM too, much nicer ride. So I prefer this one.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It looks smart, I like the wacky front end, and it sounds like they're taking a sensible approach. I hear the FF project lead has just left the company though, which is odd timing to happen right before it gets launched...

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

There's no rapid charging on the S2 series (yet). Just AC charging at a max rate of about 5kW. I'll get excited for solid state when they actually arrive, in production form, at a decent price. They've been "just a few years away" since 2010.

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Mat Oxley @matoxley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We are shipping MARC MÁRQUEZ The Biography 🚀 The book covers his life all the way to his 2025 #MotoGP title win. I interviewed pretty much every rival he’s raced against & every engineer he’s worked with, so through this book you’ll discover a new MM93 matoxley.bigcartel.com/product/marc...

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MARC MÁRQUEZ The Biography ORDER NOW!

This is the only MARC MÁRQUEZ biography that tells the full story from minibikes to winning the 2025 MotoGP championship. The book is written by...

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Had a spare hour on my day off so ripped through a charge on the LiveWire S2 Alpinista. Huge fun to ride - instant whoomph everywhere, 194lbft of torque and a compact, engaging chassis. And the wheelies... oh the wheelies. Here for a good time, not a long time: 95% to 5% rinsed in just 40 miles...

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Demo Mode is where your new KTM is delivered with all its optional electronic extras (quickshifter, Track mode etc) turned on. After 932 miles they switch off, then you choose whether you want to pay for them. Many folk hate it. Some suggested it was a cause of KTM's financial problems. It wasn't.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Exactly. It's plausible they handled camshafts so badly (in part) due to their ongoing financial problems.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Yes. But 2, 5, 10 years from now there will be only be tall tales told about how failed camshafts and charging extra for electronics and buying MV were what sunk KTM, and the truth - greed and overproduction and denying reality - will be long forgotten.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Fascinating. My highlight: "I would say there were three types of greed... operational greed... strategic greed... [and] governance greed." No mention of cams. No mention of MV. No mention of Demo Mode. History and folklore will tell a different story, but this is what led to KTM's insolvency.

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Mat Oxley @matoxley.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Got a 6-page interview in the new Bikemagazine with Dorna chief commercial officer Dan Rossomondo, looking into Liberty's plans for #MotoGP 😎✊

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Mat Oxley @matoxley.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Finished MARC MÁRQUEZ The Biography and sent it to the printers😃😃 First come, first served 😎😎 matoxley.bigcartel.com/product/marc...

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

So far, so true. Now for the real comeback - return to HRC and make that bike a title winner.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Congratulations to Marc Márquez, seven (or is it nine?) time world champion. Ahá!

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Here 'tis: the new issue of Bike, "my" first. There's loads inside, from a @sihbikes.bsky.social group test, to Nick Sanders riding a Royal Enfield Bear to the Arctic Circle, to the world's fastest R1300GS, to @matoxley.bsky.social interviewing Alex Marquez + tons more. Let me know what you think!

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

22 years ago this month I rode this bike to this building to start a new job as staff writer at Bike magazine. Today I rode the same bike to the same building to start a new job as editor of Bike magazine. It's been a two wheel trip, alright. Here's to the next leg of the journey.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Spent some time getting to know the 2025 Speed Triple 1200 RS - the most powerful production Triumph ever built. But here's why the bhp doesn't really matter, and why its most important and impressive improvement isn't the motor... www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/r... @bennettsinsurance.bsky.social

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Triumph Speed Triple 1200 RS (2025) – Review

Speed Triple 1200 RS retakes the title as Triumph’s most powerful bike

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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Triumph Speed Triple 1200 RS (2025) – Review

Speed Triple 1200 RS retakes the title as Triumph’s most powerful bike

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Blimey, some variety there. Is the CRF the 300? I've got a 250 Rally.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

08, 09 or 2010 model, guessing from the wheels?

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paulvarnsverry.bsky.social @paulvarnsverry.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Enough is enough! Dodgy sellers keep pushing unsafe gear — and getting away with it. The petition to shut them down closes tomorrow. We’re near 7,100. Let’s hit 7,500 by tonight. 🖊️ Sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... 📬 Verify your email or it’s wasted. 📢 Share — and don’t let this slide.

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Petition: Implement a strategy to protect motorcyclists from imports of unsafe clothing

We want the Government to implement a national strategy that protects motorcyclists from imports of unsafe clothing.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

A #wheeliewednesday from 17 years ago this week on Triumph's Speed Triple 1050. What a tool for the job. That original 1050 was such a willing wheelie bike, with its millpond-flat torque curve and rearward weight bias. Big, butch, brawny, beefy and British. Wonder how the new 1200 RS compares…

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

After 3000 miles and a year with Kawasaki's Z7 Hybrid, I've written an extra huge pile of words covering the recall, the recent discounts, testing EV mode through London, and what it tells us about the future of hybrid motorcycles 👇 www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/r... @bennettsinsurance.bsky.social

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Mat Oxley @matoxley.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

In the new edition of @BikeMagazine in case you didn’t know about this 🙄😎

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

1.17pm - bike passes MOT, no problems 1.32pm - pick up screw in rear tyre on ride home

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Mat Oxley @matoxley.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Summer's here 😍 but with a heavy heart I have to get rid of this beauty because I've no time to do the miles it deserves 😥 2020 BMW R1250RT, 7k miles, pristine condition. Awesome machine and soooo comfortable. £11,500. North London. Reply here if you're interested

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is exquisite. Wish they'd do a regular show together. Must-listen.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I think there was such a thing that got unlocked with a race exhaust pack? Triumph's latest Speed Trip looks to have some kind of clever wheelie-assist widget too. I remember when this was all fields etc.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Awoke my poor old Suzuki SV650S from hibernation yesterday and gatecrashed an MCN event (🙏) to see whether it (and I) could still wally about on one wheel. Wheelies seem a redundant skill, like being able to hunt a woolly mammoth or repair a Betamax. But the world would be far duller without them.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Front End Chatter #213 is live! Verdicts on Triumph's Tiger Sport 800 and BMW's R1300GS Adventure after nearly 3000 miles apiece in Scotland on our Highland Fling tour(s). Plus Ducati Streetfighter V2, Voge DS625X, KTM/Bajaj, the best cheap sports-tourer and more! www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/n...

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Front End Chatter - episode 213

Plug in your headphones & have a listen

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Isle of Man TT races preview from the Framlingham Weekly News, Saturday 27th May 1922 - so exactly 103 years ago today. Reads like a parody but it's 100% legit. Poor old Thacker on his Beardmore Precision.

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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

It is over fifty years since Japan's "Sunshine Project" started governments pouring money into green hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels. How is it going? TLDR: not well. open.substack.com/pub/mliebrei...

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Fifty years of green hydrogen in five charts

It is over fifty years since Japan's "Sunshine Project" started governments pouring money into green hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels. How is it going? TLDR: not well.

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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 22/05/2025

Full details of KTM's rescue and bailout by Bajaj, how Stefan Pierer will have no more involvement with the Austrian motorcycle manufacturer, and what it might mean for their MotoGP program. motomatters.com/news/2025/05...

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Bajaj Funds KTM Creditor Payout, Faces Final Obstacle Before Taking Control Of KTM | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks

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Adam Wheeler @adamwheeler99.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

MotoE: Still relevant? Floating along? Or still showing the possibilities of alternative tech in MotoGP? Some thoughts and words from a person that knows best: ontrackoffroad.substack.com/p/motoe-2025... (photo by motogp.com)

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MotoE 2025: A third year of Ducati power but does the series still feel relevant?

Le Mans plugged MotoE back into action for another seven-round contest and the seventh campaign since the championship entered the MotoGP support card in 2019. But is the series running out of charge?

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Bennetts BikeSocial: Get more from motorcycling @bennettsinsurance.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Would you still be tempted by this #motorcycle if you knew you had to run it on Super Unleaded? www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/r... #skymoto #motosky

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Voge DS625X (2025) – Review

Voge’s new middleweight adventurer promises a lot for six grand

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Neither - I'd already bought THE SV650S (yellow, carby) a couple of years beforehand.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

20 years ago this week I took a group test into London; it was a disaster, of course. Retreated and headed for the roundabout outside Bike's office on the winner; Suzuki's SV650S, of course. Wore a hole through my jeans - and my knee. Foreshadowing… #throwbackthursday @suzukibikesuk.bsky.social

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I would have bought one by now if I had the money to buy one by now.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Riders of our generation? We've moved beyond rejection, are on our way towards curiosity, but still short of unconditional acceptance. Haven't had a Chinese-branded bike on a FEC tour yet, but it's only a matter of time.

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Took this for a spin today. Voge's DS625X - 581cc twin, 63bhp, £6199. Centrestand, crash bars, TPMS, backlit switches, handguards, tubeless cross-spoked wheels, hoooge TFT dash, and even a 1080p dashcam in the nose. 26k valve clearance checks. Three-piece ally luggage costs just £699. Tempting?

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Martin Fitz-Gibbons @mufga.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

2700 miles in 10 days The best roads in Scotland, twice 30 lovely FECers Sun and fun by the tonne Quite a bit of Belhaven 🍺 FEC's Highland Fling tours were very special. The bar has been raised ridiculously high. Blown away by the Tiger Sport 800. Proper write-up once my head's stopped spinning 🤯

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