Thanks, Veloce looks about right for me, and you've summed up my uses for the bike quite well. I like doing 40-50km rides with friends, who usually have modern bikes. I do love the old gear as well but just for convenience I am going to go with a modern group and wheels on this one.

I'd love some help identifying the year and model of this frame if anyone could help me.

I'd say it's a Super but perhaps early 90's. All the catalogues online are mid-late 1980's and none of the Super's or Sprint's have internal cable routing for the brake cable in the top tube. A super from the early 1990's perhaps?