Martin Fitz-Gibbons

Rider, writer, talker and Front End Chatterer.

[Which? @WhichUK]

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[Martin Fitz-Gibbons @Mufga]

@HowlingTerror @SimonHbikes Thanks for listening!

[Bennetts @bennetts_bike]

🎧 It's time plug in those headphones, chill out and enjoy the latest episode of FEC with @simonhbikes and @mufga! 😀⤵️

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@motomatters I'm not clued-up enough to know how big a deal it is, who in which paddocks it might inconvenience, whether any racers are affected (weren't McGuinness, Hickman & Todd racing at Silverstone?) or how many fans will have to choose between the two.

Just seems really odd, thassall.

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2025 Silverstone MotoGP dates are Friday 23rd - Sunday 25th May.

2025 Isle of Man TT practice week begins (Bank Holiday) Monday 26th May.

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Huge news for @SimonHbikes 🔥

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Not the first time MM fell off because of Vale...

[MotoGP™🏁 @MotoGP]

Fourth place GONE! 😮

@marcmarquez93 makes a late mistake! 💥

#BritishGP 🇬🇧

[Bennetts @bennetts_bike]

How does the #Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 perform on the road for it's £10,499 asking price? #BikeSocial find out with @mufga at the helm 😀⤵️

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@HowlingTerror That is one thing I haven't worked out yet.

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FEC on tour!

Our Borders tour starts today - 20-odd FECers true and strong heading north today. And I'll be using less fuel than anyone...

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"David Attenborough crawls towards the terrible truth like a Galapagos turtle, his beak opening and closing unheeded, despite his many Baftas."

Stewart Lee is never wrong.

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

The end is nigh. For insects, bats, protest, the planet… | Stewart Lee https://t.co/LzMxjD5bVS

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@Clampy007 No mention of weight, but we could have a guess.
A stock H2SX is 266kg kerb.
Take off petrol (19 litres = 14kg).
Take off fuel tank (guess 5kg?)
Now add 2 x 25-litre H2 tanks (assume 22.6kg each, based on Toyota G2-3 tank specs).
Now add 2kg hydrogen.
Call it 294kg, ballpark?

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Kawasaki's hydrogen-powered H2 SX lives! Fuel from thin air, water out the exhaust, still goes brum. Too good to be true? (🧵)

Each of the twin tail-mounted tanks is apparently 25 litres in volume. Assuming they hold hydrogen compressed to 700 bar, that's 2kg in total. (cont👇)

[Mat Oxley @matoxley]

FOR SALE! Selling my Yamaha TMAX. Awesome all-rounder! Buying a big tourer instead. 2015 reg, 11.5k miles, garaged, serviced, MOT'd, never crashed, never broken down, heated grips and seat, big top box: £5800
Reply to this message and I'll DM you 👊👊

[Martin Fitz-Gibbons @Mufga]

@SirGuyGuisborne Nope, sorry.

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@MLiebreich Quite. Back in Feb 2010 I rode this hydrogen (fuel-cell) Suzuki scooter, an evolution / adaption of that Intelligent Energy ENV in your slide. "The future," they said 14 years ago.

Thanks for the reply - big fan of your work 🙏

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@philntash I understand / believe that high combustion temperatures create NOx, so yes. How much that *could* be mitigated by more efficient combustion and/or catalytic converter is 🤷‍♂️.

But, yes, putting H2 into a fuel cell would be both much more efficient and much less brum-my.

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@Parax Don't think they're steel tanks - guess they're some kind of composite / carbon-fibre / plastic mix. That's what Toyota use on the Mirai.
Yes, H2 is 99% fossil, which is an issue, and yes, combustion means NOx & carbon emissions (from burning oil); exhaust appears to have a cat!

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@nick_mccleery Love a Simpsons meme. There's one for everything.

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@BenJacksonTP Hydrogen has long felt like the "fuel of the future". I rode a hydrogen-powered Suzuki back in 2010 and it was "the future" then.

"And until we figure the future out, let's not do anything hasty..." etc.

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@EpaddockIT The mathematician in me can't help but reach the same conclusion.