Hi.Im planning on shipping my 99 blackbird from australia to UK to spend around 3 months touring through europe starting early may.bike gets delivered to Basildon.if anyone can recommend a decent bike shop near there where i can buy decent riding clobber at a reasonable price it would be appreciated.Thanks for the info so far Andybird.also any places in europe i should try and see as well.I have no idea what the weather is like in europe in may so im thinking at this stage i might head down france to portugal and spain (chasing the sun)to begin with then work my around to italy,slovenia,croatia then back up towards germany etc.will probably do a mixture of camping, b&b's,cheap hotels.cheers