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Per FAR 61.56, every 24 calendar months, you need to meet with a CFI for at least 1 hour of ground work and at least 1 hour of flying.  Depending on the current state of your experience, your flight review may take longer.  The regs say that this review should cover

• Current general operating and flight rules of Part 91
• Those maneuvers and procedures that, at the discretion of the person giving the review, are necessary for the pilot to demonstrate the safe exercise of the privileges of the pilot certificate.

When you buy a new airplane (or begin to rent a new airplane), you usually undergo 5-10 hours of "transition training," which helps you to familiarize yourself with the new airplane.  Most insurance companies want to see this training before they will write a policy.  There are many good articles in the aviation press about transition training, such as AVWeb, EAA, AOPA, among others. 

As detailed above, I have flown many airplanes over my flying career, but I feel most comfortable teaching transitions to the the following aircraft (in order of my preference):

• BE36
• BE35
• C152
• C172
• C182
• SR20
• SR22
• P28A
• P28R