As you know andy (and probably whats prompted you back onto the touring thing) I was looking at the T2r and the HotBodies cyclone S, both quite cheap.
thread here
http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1102
That Tamiya TA05 they talked about actually looks pretty darn good, just not sure about getting spares locally or getting a setup for them etc, might not be that popular at garforth.