Road bike recommendations

Excellent, good tips, thank you.

I certainly will be looking to get a 2012 model on sale in the next few months, so the groupset advice will be very useful.

I'd suggest Sram apex for the range. Plus its well priced on complete bikes. But basically look look for Sram Rival, or Shimano 105. They are very nice groupsets. I heart Campagnolo. But I cant, in honesty, recomend it to someone on a tight budget looking at complete bikes.