Put another person in the "there are no beaters with a Tour de France no matter what quality the paint". I've had mine for 15 years now since my late wife bought it for me as a birthday gift, and it's still one of my favorite rides. Actually, being a Gitane, I don't think you want a really good paint job, just a nicely competent one.
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“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)