Thanks -- I've read just about everything on these boards about Suteki which is why I'm interested in it. There are several other similar vintage road bikes for sale on CL but this one seemed to be the best maintained from the emails with the seller.
I work in Cary/Morrisville (always got a kick out of the signs that say "bicycle friendly community 2010 - 2012" -- like the end date implied that come 2012, it would be open season on cyclists and they would be fair game! But I live in relatively rural Wake Forest (actually Frankly county) ... if you've ever been up to Frankly County, you know what the roads are like... but once I get the hang of riding, it would probably be nice to start riding in a group -- Thanks for the information on the group rides for Cyclin' Spoken Here... I'll have to look into that.
Thanks again for your response. What LBS would be good to take my bike to be checked out etc? There seem to be soooo many of them.