Robbie,
I bought my ex a soma competition mixte back in the late 70s. As I recall it was a nice
if nondescript japanese bike. Good value for the money but nothing 'special'
Do a search here for Soma, there are a lot of threads.
Nothing on CR web site but Sheldon mentions Soma in his japanese bike
page ( http://sheldonbrown.com/japan.html )
btw they have nothing to do with the current Soma fabrications bikes components etc.

Marty