Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 150, presented as ever by Martin Fitz-Gibbons and Simon Hargreaves, and supported by Bennetts, the bike insurance specialist, and bikesocial.co.uk, your one-stop on the interwebs for everything bike-related – and don’t forget to check out Bennetts’ YouTube channel with a stack of new bike launch videos, consumer advice and how-tos. And on this Christmassy episode we have: Some bad bike jokes FEC at the NEC; our chat on stage with Mr Jamie James Whitham live at Motorcycle Live Triumph's new Tiger 1200 gets more from less BSA's Goldstar gets something from nothing Ducati's Desert X gets it white first time John McGuiness returns to Honda for the NW and TT Plus why Sargent seats are good how having kids changes motorcycling synthetic fuel alternatives to electric as the future ...and loads of chit-chat in between Thanks to all of you for downloading and giving FEC a listen, please continue to spread the word, and please keep your thoughts, queries, questions and musings coming in to  anything@frontendchatter.com ...Ands catch us both on the various socials: @SimonHBikes @Mufga