Road bike recommendations

Those CAAD10's are amazing.

If you do end up getting one the ones from Westbrook Cycles have never been so much as looked at let alone set up (the box it comes in will not have been opened since it left the factory).
All good if you're competent enough to sort it yourself, if not budget in taking it to a shop to get it sorted.

cheers for the heads up on that. I could do a full build on single speed pretty quick by myself these days having built up a couple over the years but gears would be a whole other thing though, and not sure I would want to be as avant-garde as I was in the past with a £1700 bike...but it does sound a hell of a nice bike.