Thanks for all the advice guys. Hopefully I wont be kissing the tarmac too often now.

Any advice on shoes? I've been looking on line, and prices range from dirt cheap to astronomical. Should I buy the cheap ones to begin with, then upgrade to more expensive ones later on, or will they just fall apart/be **** from straight away and not be worth it? If I were to get slightly more expensive ones, I'd probably go up to the £150ish kind of range. What do you recommend?