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@s.walrus
That £123 Randonneur looks good, but I'm a bit stuck in the past. The price of really nice fully built up second hand bikes always surprises me, you can get so much for £500-£700 compared to something new which will normally be a platic groupset, ugly welded aluminium and a low end carbon fork. Unless you are competing, or looking to cover distance with minimum exertion, rather than being able to set the distance for however comfortable you want to be, I'd definitely go second hand. But then I'm tight and like lugs, fillets and shiny things. 20 years ago many cyclists were enjoying 100k rides, many of their bikes are still in fine condition. Every year the bike companies bring out new stuff, not because it is especially needed by the cyclists, but because the companies need to sell stuff.