Hi,
You're definitely in the right place. I've got my first big (for me) trip in April - UK-Germany-Czech-Poland-Lithuania-and back. Have you got Chris Scott's book yet? Well worth getting even if you're not (yet?) planning a desert crossing. Lots of good info on preparing a bike and yourself for long distance travel.
Are you getting a new or used bike? Reading through the travel reports on the Adventure Motorcycling website is quite useful for an indication of he good/bad points of bikes that have actually been taken on long trips. Much better than magazine reviews!
It's worth getting a bike to suit/match the bikes of the people you're travelling with. Being on (or with) a slower bike can be annoying as one person is alway hammering it and the other is always going slower.
Check out the Trip Planning link on the left hand side of the page ( http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tripplan/ ), lots of the basic information already sorted for you in readable chunks. Saves you searching for it.
Every time I open the map of Europe at the moment I keep seeing places I want to go to. My trip is getting longer everytime, I may still be on the road in 2004....
See you around,
Doug
[This message has been edited by DougB (edited 28 November 2002).]
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